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Palmer Heights CDP, Pennsylvania: commercial real estate data.
Palmer Heights CDP is a Census CDP of 3,624 people across 1.16 square miles of land, in Northampton County. Median household income is $99,815, 98.4 percent of occupied homes are owned.
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Palmer Heights
What Palmer Heights is
- Census place typeCDP
- Land area1.16 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land3,126
- County holding the largest share of its areaNorthampton 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.
Palmer Heights
How many people live in Palmer Heights
- Population3,624
- Median age48.5
- Population under 18642 plus or minus 358
- Share under 1817.7 percent plus or minus 9.4
- Population 65 and over1,142
- Share 65 and over31.5 percent plus or minus 7.3
- Households1,334
- Family households1,044
- Share of households that are families78.3 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Palmer Heights
Income and work in Palmer Heights
- Median household income$99,815
- Per capita income$43,661
- Civilian labor force1,804
- Employed1,715
- Unemployed89 plus or minus 59
- Unemployment rate4.9 percent plus or minus 3.1
- Adults 25 and over2,809
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher95.5 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher37.2 percent plus or minus 8.4
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree12.2 percent plus or minus 5.9
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Palmer Heights
Housing in Palmer Heights
- Housing units1,383
- Occupied units1,334
- Vacant units49 plus or minus 52
- Vacancy rate3.5 percent plus or minus 3.7
- Owner occupied1,313
- Renter occupied21 plus or minus 26
- Ownership rate98.4 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$309,100
- Single family units1,375
- Share single family99.4 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more8 plus or minus 17
- Share in buildings of two or more0.6 percent plus or minus 1.2
- Mobile homes0
- Median year structure built1966
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Palmer Heights
How Palmer Heights gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute1,558 plus or minus 326
- Commuting under 15 minutes726 plus or minus 343
- Share commuting under 15 minutes46.6 percent plus or minus 19.8
- Commuting 30 minutes or more407 plus or minus 136
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more26.1 percent plus or minus 6.8
- Drove alone84.0 percent
- Carpooled4.8 percent plus or minus 4.1
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.8 percent plus or minus 1.1
- Worked from home6.8 percent plus or minus 3.3
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Northampton County, not Palmer Heights
Northampton County context, not Palmer Heights figures
These are Northampton County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Palmer Heights measurements.
- Establishments in Northampton County6,529
- Employment at those establishments, Northampton County121,192
- Covered employment, Northampton County120,976
- Average annual pay, Northampton County$60,298
- Average weekly wage, Northampton County$1,160
- Housing units permitted, Northampton County546
- Of those, single family, Northampton County372
- County product, 2024, Northampton County$20,981,619,000
- County product change over the prior year, Northampton County3.9 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Northampton County$73,377
Every figure in this section is published for Northampton County as a whole and is not a measurement of Palmer 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.
- No SBA approvals are recorded to a borrower address in this place in either FOIA release.
- This place is not listed as a community in the FEMA Community Status Book, so no NFIP participation or CRS class is shown.
- 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
Palmer Heights questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Palmer Heights, Pennsylvania?
3,624, in 1,334 households. Palmer Heights CDP covers 1.16 square miles of land, which is 3,126 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Palmer Heights in?
Northampton 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 Palmer Heights?
$99,815. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $309,100. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Are the county figures on this page Palmer Heights figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Northampton 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 Palmer Heights.
Is zoning published for Palmer Heights?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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