Pike County, Pennsylvania: commercial real estate data.

Pike County

How many people live in Pike County

• Population, American Community Survey 2020-202460,621
• Households24,262
• Average household size2.50
• Median household income$81,323
• Median age49.4
• Median gross rent$1,378 per month
• Median owner-occupied home value$272,600
• Home value to household income3.4 times
• Annual rent as a share of median income20.3 percent
• Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher29.7 percent
• Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree11.9 percent
• Adults 25 and over46,149
• Population under 1810,433
• Share under 1817.2 percent
• Population 65 and over14,732
• Share 65 and over24.3 percent
• Working age population, 18 to 6435,456
• Civilian labor force28,849
• Unemployment rate7.5 percent
• Labor force participation, adults 18 and over57.5 percent
• Rank by population among Pennsylvania counties41st of 67
• Rank by population among US county-equivalents, Puerto Rico included887th of 3,222

Pike County is the 41st largest of 67 Pennsylvania counties by population. A median home costs 3.4 times median household income, which is moderately unaffordable by national standards. Residents 65 and over outnumber those under 18, at 24.3 percent against 17.2 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 Pike County from?

• Tax returns filed by households arriving2,363
• People arriving, from those returns4,231
• Tax returns filed by households leaving1,908
• Net household movement455
• Adjusted gross income arriving$211.0 m
• Net adjusted gross income movement$67.4 m
• Average income of an arriving household$89,292
• Average income of a leaving household$75,258
• Largest single originOrange County (302 households)
• Largest single destinationMonroe County (157 households)

Households arriving report $14,034 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 Orange 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 Pike County

• Covered employment, annual average12,452
• Establishments reporting1,144
• Average annual pay$44,674
• Average weekly wage$859
• Accommodation and food services, employment2,520
• Accommodation and food services, average annual pay$30,794
• Retail trade, employment2,275
• Retail trade, average annual pay$31,613
• Health care and social assistance, employment1,346
• Health care and social assistance, average annual pay$46,363
• Other services, except public administration, employment936
• Other services, except public administration, average annual pay$32,844
• Administrative and support and waste management services, employment600
• Construction, employment424

Accommodation and food services is the largest private sector at 2,520 jobs, 20.2 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 Pike County

• Housing units authorized by permit, 2024190
• Declared construction value permitted$68.6 m
• Single family units authorized190
• Multifamily units authorized0
• Multifamily share of units0.0 percent
• Average declared value per unit$360,973
• Units authorized per 1,000 households7.8

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 Pike County

Do SBA loans in Pike County get paid back?

• Loans with a final outcome recorded2
• Paid in full2
• Charged off0
• Status: Paid in full2
• Status: Exempt from disclosure22
• Status: Cancelled5
• Status: Committed, not yet disbursed4

Only 2 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 Pike County?

• Land area545 sq mi
• Rank by land area among Pennsylvania counties42nd of 67
• Width, east to west34.8 mi
• Height, north to south36.5 mi
• Geographies sharing a boundary6
• Residents per square mile of land111
• Establishments per square mile1.83

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 Pike 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 Pike County site starts with the figures you are reading, carrying the same source and period into the credit file.

• Population, American Community Survey 2020-202460,621
• Households24,262
• Average household size2.50
• Median household income$81,323
• Median age49.4

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Cities and places in Pike.

16 Census places lie wholly or partly in Pike County. All 16 carry enough published place level data for a page of their own and are linked.

A further 21 of the county's 33 SBA 7(a) approvals are to borrowers in cities that match no Census place in Pike County, the largest being Bushkill (7), Hawley (5), Shohola (3). 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.