Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania: commercial real estate data.

Schuylkill County

How many people live in Schuylkill County

• Population143,558
• Households57,988
• Average household size2.48
• Median household income$68,313
• Median age43.7
• Median gross rent$876 per month
• Median owner-occupied home value$153,000
• Home value to household income2.2 times
• Annual rent as a share of median income15.4 percent
• Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher19.9 percent
• Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree7.1 percent
• Adults 25 and over104,280
• Population under 1828,557
• Share under 1819.9 percent
• Population 65 and over30,226
• Share 65 and over21.1 percent
• Working age population, 18 to 6484,775
• Civilian labor force68,442
• Unemployment rate5.6 percent
• Labor force participation, adults 18 and over59.5 percent
• Rank by population among Pennsylvania counties25th of 67
• Rank by population among US county-equivalents471st

Schuylkill County is the 25th largest of 67 Pennsylvania counties by population. A median home costs 2.2 times median household income, which is an affordable ownership market by national standards. Residents 65 and over outnumber those under 18, at 21.1 percent against 19.9 percent, which points demand at health care, services and single storey 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 Schuylkill County from?

• Tax returns filed by households arriving3,006
• People arriving, from those returns5,259
• Adjusted gross income arriving$163.7 m
• Net adjusted gross income movement$0
• Average income of an arriving household$54,473
• Largest single originSchuylkill County Non-migrants (57,538 households)
• Largest single destination (57,538 households)

The largest single source of arrivals is Schuylkill County Non-migrants, 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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Largest employers in Schuylkill County

• Covered employment, annual average50,294
• Establishments reporting2,961
• Average annual pay$54,134
• Average weekly wage$1,041
• Sector 31-33, employment10,241
• Sector 31-33, average annual pay$70,212
• Sector 62, employment7,779
• Sector 62, average annual pay$50,295
• Sector 48-49, employment6,707
• Sector 48-49, average annual pay$56,884
• Sector 44-45, employment5,160
• Sector 44-45, average annual pay$32,450
• Sector 72, employment2,938
• Sector 23, employment1,759

The largest sector is the biggest private employer group at 10,241 jobs, 20.4 percent of covered employment. Average pay per job sits below median household income, so households here typically need more than one earner.

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

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Building permits in Schuylkill County

• Housing units authorised by permit, 2024239
• Declared construction value permitted$54.5 m
• Single family units authorised167
• Multifamily units authorised72
• Multifamily share of units30.1 percent
• Average declared value per unit$227,825
• Units authorised per 1,000 households4.1

Multifamily is 30.1 percent of units authorised, so the pipeline is predominantly for sale product.

US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, 2024 annual.

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SBA loan default and charge-off rates in Schuylkill County

Do SBA loans in Schuylkill County get paid back?

• Loans with a final outcome recorded9
• Paid in full9
• Charged off0
• Status: Paid in full9
• Status: Cancelled19
• Status: Exempt from disclosure64
• Status: Committed, not yet disbursed12

Too few loans have reached a final outcome to publish a charge off rate. only 9 resolved loans, too few to publish a rate. A rate computed on a handful of loans is noise, so none is shown.

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 Schuylkill County?

• Land area779 sq mi
• Rank by land area among Pennsylvania counties26th of 67
• Width, east to west49.6 mi
• Height, north to south31.3 mi
• Geographies sharing a boundary8
• Residents per square mile of land184
• Establishments per square mile3.47

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

• Population143,558
• Households57,988
• Average household size2.48
• Median household income$68,313
• Median age43.7

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Cities and places in Schuylkill.

75 Census places lie wholly or partly in Schuylkill County. 75 carry enough published place level data for a page of their own and are linked. The rest are named here and not linked, because the American Community Survey and the SBA record between them do not carry enough about them to write an honest page. A place existing is itself worth knowing, so nothing in the county is left out.

A further 12 SBA approvals in Schuylkill County are recorded against borrower cities that match no Census place, the largest being Barnesville, Tower City, Mahanoy City. Those are postal cities and unincorporated areas rather than incorporated places, so no page claims them, and their lending is counted in this county's totals above rather than under any city.