Crawford County, Pennsylvania: commercial real estate data.

Crawford County

How many people live in Crawford County

• Population, American Community Survey 2020-202482,716
• Households33,838
• Average household size2.44
• Median household income$60,476
• Median age44.0
• Median gross rent$802 per month
• Median owner-occupied home value$153,200
• Home value to household income2.5 times
• Annual rent as a share of median income15.9 percent
• Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher21.1 percent
• Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree7.9 percent
• Adults 25 and over58,650
• Population under 1817,004
• Share under 1820.6 percent
• Population 65 and over18,783
• Share 65 and over22.7 percent
• Working age population, 18 to 6446,929
• Civilian labor force36,767
• Unemployment rate5.0 percent
• Labor force participation, adults 18 and over56.0 percent
• Rank by population among Pennsylvania counties35th of 67
• Rank by population among US county-equivalents, Puerto Rico included711th of 3,222

Crawford County is the 35th largest of 67 Pennsylvania counties by population. A median home costs 2.5 times median household income, which is affordable by national standards. Residents 65 and over outnumber those under 18, at 22.7 percent against 20.6 percent, which points demand at health care, services and single story product rather than schools.

US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, 2020-2024 5-year.

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Where are people moving to Crawford County from?

• Tax returns filed by households arriving1,449
• People arriving, from those returns2,540
• Tax returns filed by households leaving1,534
• Net household movement-85
• Adjusted gross income arriving$75.7 m
• Net adjusted gross income movement$2.6 m
• Average income of an arriving household$52,215
• Average income of a leaving household$47,615
• Largest single originErie County (325 households)
• Largest single destinationErie County (308 households)

Households arriving report $4,600 more average income than households leaving, so the migration is raising local spending power rather than just moving it around. The largest single source of arrivals is Erie County, which is the catchment a retail or multifamily study should look at first.

US Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income county migration flows, 2021 to 2022 filing years.

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Employment by industry in Crawford County

• Covered employment, annual average28,870
• Establishments reporting2,130
• Average annual pay$50,526
• Average weekly wage$972
• Manufacturing, employment6,909
• Manufacturing, average annual pay$61,620
• Health care and social assistance, employment6,026
• Health care and social assistance, average annual pay$55,347
• Retail trade, employment3,202
• Retail trade, average annual pay$33,346
• Accommodation and food services, employment2,227
• Accommodation and food services, average annual pay$19,002
• Other services, except public administration, employment1,240
• Construction, employment869

Manufacturing is the largest private sector at 6,909 jobs, 23.9 percent of covered employment.

US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2024 annual averages.

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Building permits in Crawford County

• Housing units authorized by permit, 202479
• Declared construction value permitted$22.2 m
• Single family units authorized79
• Multifamily units authorized0
• Multifamily share of units0.0 percent
• Average declared value per unit$280,558
• Units authorized per 1,000 households2.3

Single-family homes are 100.0 percent of units authorized, so the pipeline is predominantly single-family.

US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, 2024 annual.

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SBA loan default and charge-off rates in Crawford County

Do SBA loans in Crawford County get paid back?

• Loans with a final outcome recorded8
• Paid in full8
• Charged off0
• Status: Exempt from disclosure29
• Status: Paid in full8
• Status: Cancelled6
• Status: Committed, not yet disbursed3

Only 8 loans have reached a final outcome, fewer than the 30 a charge-off rate needs, so no rate is published.

Compare against the national and state SBA charge-off rates, computed the same way over resolved loans only.

US Small Business Administration, 7(a) FOIA release, FY2020 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.

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How large is Crawford County?

• Land area1,012 sq mi
• Rank by land area among Pennsylvania counties9th of 67
• Width, east to west46.9 mi
• Height, north to south25.5 mi
• Geographies sharing a boundary6
• Residents per square mile of land82
• Establishments per square mile1.90

US Census Bureau county boundary geometry, TIGER, adjacency computed from shared boundary vertices, TIGER county boundaries. US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, 2020-2024 5-year. US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, 2023.

Feasibility studies

When a Crawford County site needs a document a lender will accept.

The same data layer behind this page is the one the studies are written from. A study for a Crawford County site starts with the figures you are reading, carrying the same source and period into the credit file.

• Population, American Community Survey 2020-202482,716
• Households33,838
• Average household size2.44
• Median household income$60,476
• Median age44.0

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Cities and places in Crawford.

32 Census places lie wholly or partly in Crawford County. All 32 carry enough published place level data for a page of their own and are linked.

A further 3 of the county's 46 SBA 7(a) approvals are to borrowers in cities that match no Census place in Crawford County, the largest being Espyville (2), Saergertown (1). Those are postal cities, unincorporated areas and cities outside the county, so no place row claims them; they are counted in the county total above.