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Chester Heights borough, Pennsylvania: commercial real estate data.
Chester Heights borough is a Census borough of 2,948 people across 2.21 square miles of land, in Delaware County. Median household income is $104,009, 75.9 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 1 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $425,000.
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Chester Heights
What Chester Heights is
- Census place typeborough
- Land area2.21 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land1,332
- County holding the largest share of its areaDelaware 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.
Chester Heights
How many people live in Chester Heights
- Population2,948
- Median age51.4
- Population under 18553 plus or minus 148
- Share under 1818.8 percent plus or minus 5.0
- Population 65 and over946
- Share 65 and over32.1 percent
- Households1,345
- Family households752
- Share of households that are families55.9 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Chester Heights
Income and work in Chester Heights
- Median household income$104,009 plus or minus $23,315
- Per capita income$58,469
- Civilian labor force1,434
- Employed1,403
- Unemployed31 plus or minus 33
- Unemployment rate2.2 percent plus or minus 2.3
- Adults 25 and over2,304
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher96.8 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher54.4 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree30.7 percent plus or minus 7.2
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Chester Heights
Housing in Chester Heights
- Housing units1,434
- Occupied units1,345
- Vacant units89 plus or minus 74
- Vacancy rate6.2 percent plus or minus 5.1
- Owner occupied1,021
- Renter occupied324 plus or minus 106
- Ownership rate75.9 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$343,200
- Median gross rent, monthly$2,454
- Annual rent as a share of median income28.3 percent plus or minus 7.0
- Single family units1,047
- Share single family73.0 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more387 plus or minus 144
- Share in buildings of two or more27.0 percent plus or minus 9.8
- Mobile homes0
- Median year structure built1987
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Chester Heights
How Chester Heights gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute979
- Commuting under 15 minutes134 plus or minus 72
- Share commuting under 15 minutes13.7 percent plus or minus 7.0
- Commuting 30 minutes or more605 plus or minus 170
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more61.8 percent plus or minus 14.4
- Drove alone62.6 percent
- Carpooled1.8 percent plus or minus 1.8
- Public transport2.9 percent plus or minus 2.9
- Walked2.2 percent plus or minus 3.2
- Worked from home29.8 percent plus or minus 8.2
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Chester Heights
SBA loans in Chester Heights (7(a))
- Approvals1
- Gross approval$425,000
- Average approval$425,000
- Median approval$425,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$425,000
- Largest approval$425,000
- Jobs supported2
- Jobs per approval2.0
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Paid in full0
- Charged off0
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more0.0 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders1
- Distinct industries by NAICS1
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 0 resolved loans, too few to publish a rate, and a rate over that few outcomes would move several points on one loan.
US Small Business Administration, 7(a) FOIA release, FY2020 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Chester Heights
Flood risk in Chester Heights
- Listed NFIP communities1
- Of those, participating1
- NFIP community number420406
- Currently effective map date11/18/09
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.
Delaware County, not Chester Heights
Delaware County context, not Chester Heights figures
These are Delaware County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Chester Heights measurements.
- Establishments in Delaware County13,165
- Employment at those establishments, Delaware County237,233
- Covered employment, Delaware County218,536
- Average annual pay, Delaware County$73,172
- Average weekly wage, Delaware County$1,407
- Housing units permitted, Delaware County281
- Of those, single family, Delaware County267
- County product, 2024, Delaware County$42,607,881,000
- County product change over the prior year, Delaware County3.4 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Delaware County$98,103
Every figure in this section is published for Delaware County as a whole and is not a measurement of Chester Heights. 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.
- 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
Chester Heights questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Chester Heights, Pennsylvania?
2,948, in 1,345 households. Chester Heights borough covers 2.21 square miles of land, which is 1,332 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Chester Heights in?
Delaware 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 Chester Heights?
$104,009. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $343,200. Median gross rent is $2,454 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Chester Heights businesses?
1 7(a) approvals totalling $425,000, across 1 lenders, median approval $425,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Chester Heights, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Chester Heights borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Chester Heights. only 0 resolved loans, too few to publish a rate, and a percentage over that few outcomes would move several points on a single loan. The counts are shown instead.
Is Chester Heights in the National Flood Insurance Program?
Yes. Chester Heights appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 420406, 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 Chester Heights figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Delaware 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 Chester Heights.
Is zoning published for Chester Heights?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.