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Fox Chapel borough, Pennsylvania: commercial real estate data.
Fox Chapel borough is a Census borough of 5,246 people across 7.87 square miles of land, in Allegheny County. Median household income is $243,625, 91.1 percent of occupied homes are owned.
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Fox Chapel
What Fox Chapel is
- Census place typeborough
- Land area7.87 sq mi
- Water area0.01 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land667
- County holding the largest share of its areaAllegheny County, 100.0 percent
US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage. US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Fox Chapel
How many people live in Fox Chapel
- Population5,246
- Median age43.5
- Population under 181,494
- Share under 1828.5 percent
- Population 65 and over967
- Share 65 and over18.4 percent
- Households1,725
- Family households1,471
- Share of households that are families85.3 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Fox Chapel
Income and work in Fox Chapel
- Median household income$243,625
- Per capita income$127,023
- Civilian labor force2,400
- Employed2,265
- Unemployed135 plus or minus 59
- Unemployment rate5.6 percent plus or minus 2.4
- Adults 25 and over3,451
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher98.4 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher85.9 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree47.6 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Fox Chapel
Housing in Fox Chapel
- Housing units1,804
- Occupied units1,725
- Vacant units79 plus or minus 74
- Vacancy rate4.4 percent plus or minus 4.1
- Owner occupied1,571
- Renter occupied154 plus or minus 83
- Ownership rate91.1 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$900,600
- Single family units1,692
- Share single family93.8 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more112 plus or minus 91
- Share in buildings of two or more6.2 percent plus or minus 5.0
- Mobile homes0
- Median year structure built1969
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Fox Chapel
How Fox Chapel gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute1,770
- Commuting under 15 minutes428 plus or minus 125
- Share commuting under 15 minutes24.2 percent plus or minus 6.4
- Commuting 30 minutes or more762 plus or minus 190
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more43.1 percent plus or minus 9.4
- Drove alone71.1 percent
- Carpooled3.5 percent plus or minus 2.0
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked1.9 percent plus or minus 1.5
- Worked from home21.5 percent plus or minus 5.4
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Fox Chapel
Flood risk in Fox Chapel
- Listed NFIP communities1
- Of those, participating1
- NFIP community number420036
- Currently effective map date09/26/14
This community carries no Community Rating System class, so no CRS premium discount applies to it.
FEMA, National Flood Insurance Program Community Status Book, Community Status Book, as retrieved.
Allegheny County, not Fox Chapel
Allegheny County context, not Fox Chapel figures
These are Allegheny County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Fox Chapel measurements.
- Establishments in Allegheny County33,812
- Employment at those establishments, Allegheny County709,774
- Covered employment, Allegheny County670,637
- Average annual pay, Allegheny County$78,297
- Average weekly wage, Allegheny County$1,506
- Housing units permitted, Allegheny County2,999
- Of those, single family, Allegheny County1,356
- County product, 2024, Allegheny County$132,891,899,000
- County product change over the prior year, Allegheny County4.4 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Allegheny County$88,274
Every figure in this section is published for Allegheny County as a whole and is not a measurement of Fox Chapel. It is here because a county backdrop is what a credit committee reads a place against, and it is labelled so that it can never be quoted as the place's own.
US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, 2023. US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2024 annual averages. US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, 2024 annual. US Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional, table CAGDP2, CAGDP2, through 2024. US Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income county migration flows, 2021 to 2022 filing years.
Coverage
What this page does not hold.
Every item below could be filled with a plausible figure. None of them is. On a page a lender may read, a number that cannot be traced is worse than an absence, so the absences are named.
- No SBA approvals are recorded to a borrower address in this place in either FOIA release.
- No median gross rent is published for this place.
- Parcel level detail, zoning and flood zone at an address are resolved in the platform, not on this page.
SBA figures count approvals to borrowers whose address is in the place. They are not approvals for projects inside the place boundary: the tape records a borrower city and a project county, and those can differ.
Common questions
Fox Chapel questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Fox Chapel, Pennsylvania?
5,246, in 1,725 households. Fox Chapel borough covers 7.87 square miles of land, which is 667 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Fox Chapel in?
Allegheny County, which holds 100.0 percent of the place by area. Source: US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage.
What is the median household income in Fox Chapel?
$243,625. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $900,600. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Is Fox Chapel in the National Flood Insurance Program?
Yes. Fox Chapel appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 420036, with no Community Rating System class, so no CRS discount applies. Whether a specific parcel sits in a mapped special flood hazard area is an address level question the platform answers.
Are the county figures on this page Fox Chapel figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Allegheny County as a whole and there is no place level equivalent. They appear in one clearly marked section as context and are never presented as measurements of Fox Chapel.
Is zoning published for Fox Chapel?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.