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Swissvale borough, Pennsylvania: commercial real estate data.
Swissvale borough is a Census borough of 8,418 people across 1.21 square miles of land, in Allegheny County. Median household income is $60,341, 48.9 percent of occupied homes are owned.
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Swissvale
What Swissvale is
- Census place typeborough
- Land area1.21 sq mi
- Water area0.05 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land6,977
- 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.
Swissvale
How many people live in Swissvale
- Population8,418
- Median age38.1
- Population under 181,384 plus or minus 288
- Share under 1816.4 percent plus or minus 3.4
- Population 65 and over1,552 plus or minus 345
- Share 65 and over18.4 percent plus or minus 4.1
- Households4,352
- Family households1,793
- Share of households that are families41.2 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Swissvale
Income and work in Swissvale
- Median household income$60,341
- Per capita income$43,926
- Civilian labor force5,222
- Employed4,804
- Unemployed418 plus or minus 217
- Unemployment rate8.0 percent plus or minus 4.1
- Adults 25 and over6,521
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher97.3 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher41.4 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree19.8 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Swissvale
Housing in Swissvale
- Housing units4,891
- Occupied units4,352
- Vacant units539 plus or minus 172
- Vacancy rate11.0 percent plus or minus 3.4
- Owner occupied2,127
- Renter occupied2,225
- Ownership rate48.9 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$147,000
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,136
- Annual rent as a share of median income22.6 percent
- Single family units3,136
- Share single family64.1 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more1,755
- Share in buildings of two or more35.9 percent
- Mobile homes0
- Median year structure built1941
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Swissvale
How Swissvale gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute3,414
- Commuting under 15 minutes673 plus or minus 239
- Share commuting under 15 minutes19.7 percent plus or minus 6.7
- Commuting 30 minutes or more1,123
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more32.9 percent
- Drove alone48.3 percent
- Carpooled8.5 percent plus or minus 5.2
- Public transport8.9 percent plus or minus 2.5
- Walked6.7 percent plus or minus 3.1
- Worked from home25.9 percent plus or minus 5.9
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Swissvale
Flood programme status in Swissvale
- Listed NFIP communities1
- Of those, participating1
- NFIP community number420075
- 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 Swissvale
Allegheny County context, not Swissvale 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 Swissvale 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 Swissvale. 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.
- 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
Swissvale questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Swissvale, Pennsylvania?
8,418, in 4,352 households. Swissvale borough covers 1.21 square miles of land, which is 6,977 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Swissvale 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 Swissvale?
$60,341. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $147,000. Median gross rent is $1,136 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Is Swissvale in the National Flood Insurance Program?
Yes. Swissvale appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 420075, 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 Swissvale 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 Swissvale.
Is zoning published for Swissvale?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.