Broomall, Pennsylvania

Area Profile

10,679 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for Broomall, in Delaware County.

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How this area ranks
OpportunityTop 5% of 3,904 cities measured83
SchoolsTop 3% of 2,668 cities measured90
Housing affordability2320th of 4,223 cities measured78
ClimateTop 46% of 4,223 cities measured71
Physical resilienceTop 10% of 4,182 cities measured91
AccessTop 8% of 4,226 cities measured99
Economic stabilityTop 14% of 4,226 cities measured77
The quick read

Broomall ranks in the top 5% of published city profiles for employment opportunity, with unemployment at 3.8% and median household income of $105,625.

Natural-hazard exposure is lower than in most comparable published city profiles, placing Broomall in the top 10% for physical resilience.

A major airport is 9 miles away, giving the area unusually direct access to the national air network.

At a glance

Population
10,679
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$105,625
Top 16% nationally
Density
3,371/sq mi
3.2 sq mi of land
Median age
47.3
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
Delaware County
Pennsylvania
Metro area
Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD
Nearest major airport
PHL
9 mi · Philadelphia Intl
Median home value
$483,000
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 3.8% is lower than 70% of the 3,904 measured US cities.

Employment grew 2.8% over the past year, to 298,459 employed residents.

45% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 85% of measured US cities.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Median household income ±$7,544$105,625Top 16%of 29,5732024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$5,855$54,296Top 14%of 31,4202024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate4.1%Bottom 20%of 31,9002024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute28.5 minTop 41%of 31,5432024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher45.1%Top 15%of 31,9192024 ACS 5-Year
Employment298,459Top 22%of 3,904June 2026
Employment change (3 years)2.8%Top 16%of 3,903June 2026
Employment change (year over year)2.8%Top 2%of 3,904June 2026
Labor force310,255Top 22%of 3,904June 2026
Labor force participation66.7%Top 28%of 31,9332024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$71,730Top 40%of 3,6582025 OEWS
Median annual wage$54,310Top 41%of 3,6582025 OEWS
Unemployment change (year over year)-0.7%Bottom 11%of 3,904June 2026
Unemployment rate3.8%Bottom 30%of 3,904June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
2021202220232024115k106k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $105,625 in the 2024 ACS 5-Year. Consecutive releases share four years of sample, so AreaProfile shows them as a record of successive estimates and does not compute a year-over-year change from them.
Largest occupations — Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD
OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
Home Health and Personal Care Aides158,280$29,800
Registered Nurses73,790$101,180
Fast Food and Counter Workers69,080$32,220
General and Operations Managers68,730$121,630
Retail Salespersons63,990$34,810
Cashiers54,100$33,050

Occupational employment and wages are published for metropolitan areas rather than for individual cities or ZIP areas, so these describe the wider labor market this location sits in. 2025 OEWS, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes city-level labor data only for places of 25,000 or more. This is the figure for Delaware County, PA, which contains this city.

50% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 69% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 12.6 students for every full-time teacher, fewer than in most measured places.

Public schools
5
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
12.6
across all schools here
Math proficiency
50.4%
Top 9% in Pennsylvania
Reading proficiency
68.9%
Top 8% in Pennsylvania
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Paxon Hollow MSMarple Newtown SD86813.827%62%
Worrall El SchMarple Newtown SD44913.673%80%
Russell El SchMarple Newtown SD40010.561%67%
Loomis El SchMarple Newtown SD37611.867%73%
Delaware County Technical High School - MarpleDelaware County Technical High School0

27.9% of students here are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That describes the circumstances families arrive with rather than how the schools perform, which is why AreaProfile shows it and does not score it.

Public schools only, from the NCES Common Core of Data. Schools are placed by ZIP code, so this is which schools are in this place rather than which one a particular address is zoned for — district boundaries do not follow municipal ones, and enrollment zones change. Fully virtual schools are excluded: they enroll students from across the state while reporting one administrative address, and counting them here would describe a school population this place does not have. The assessment covers grades 3 through 8, so a high school shows no proficiency figure — a dash in those columns means the test was not given at that school, not that it performed badly. Proficiency is measured against Pennsylvania’s own standard, so it compares cleanly within the state and only broadly against other states; AreaProfile therefore ranks it within state. The directory is current, while the proficiency figures are from the last school year with national coverage before the pandemic interrupted testing.

Housing & affordability

How it’s calculated →

Median rent of $1,765 takes 20% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 4.6 times median household income here, above the historic benchmark of about three times income.

Rent as a share of income
20.1%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
4.6×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$1,765
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$483,000
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Home price to income4.57Top 19%of 28,4732024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate78.8%Top 44%of 31,8432024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±2574,183Top 13%of 32,3302024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$72$1,765Top 13%of 23,4322024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$14,028$483,000Top 12%of 29,3422024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income20.1%Top 40%of 23,2012024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate3.8%Bottom 23%of 32,0012024 ACS 5-Year

Both affordability measures come from the same ACS release as the income they are compared with, so the comparison is like for like. They describe housing cost against local earnings and are not a cost-of-living index — transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes are not included, and a place can look affordable here and still be expensive to live in for reasons this does not capture.

Growth & development

How it’s calculated →

No building-permit activity is published for this location by the Census Building Permits Survey.

Weather & climate

6 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 88°F and January a low of 26°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 44.1 inches, including 23.1 inches of snow.

Air quality measures a median index of 43, in the Good band, and about 2 days a year pass 100, the threshold at which the air is unhealthy for sensitive groups.

20°40°60°80°100°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station PHILADELPHIA INTL AP, 9.5 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND4.4"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index64.02024 calendar year
Annual precipitation44.1"1991-2020 Normals
Annual snowfall23.1"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low26°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high88°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months61991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 10022024 calendar year
Median air quality index43.02024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing45°F1991-2020 Normals
Air quality
Median air quality index
43
Good on a typical day
Worst tenth of days
64
90th percentile index
Days above 100
2
unhealthy for sensitive groups

A comfortable median and a bad tail are different problems. Wildfire smoke and summer ozone show up in the worst tenth of days, not in the middle of the year.

Climate figures are thirty-year normals, not current conditions. They describe what a typical year looks like rather than what the weather is doing today. Air quality is measured rather than modelled, by EPA monitors, and published by county only where a monitor sits — roughly half the counties AreaProfile publishes have one, and the rest show nothing rather than an estimate. Air masses are regional, so a county reading describes the air over a place reasonably well, but it is still the county reading.

Physical risk

91 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are earthquake, hurricane and winter weather.

Winter weatherModerate
EarthquakeModerate
HurricaneModerate
DroughtModerate

Low or minimal exposure: strong wind, heat wave, lightning, inland flooding, tornado, cold wave, ice storm, coastal flooding, landslide, wildfire, hail, avalanche.

Hazard ratings are AreaProfile calculations derived from the FEMA National Risk Index v1.20.0 (December 2025). FEMA publishes at county level. City values are the population-weighted mean of the counties the city overlaps, using AreaProfile place-to-county land-area weights. FEMA does not endorse this presentation. Higher physical resilience means lower exposure.

These are deaths, not offences. AreaProfile does not publish reported crime, and this is not a substitute for it — it says nothing about burglary, theft or assault.

Delaware County records 4.9 homicide deaths per 100,000 residents a year, near the middle of counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Firearm deaths of all intents run at 8.7 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 21.7 per 100,000 residents in Delaware County.

Homicide
4.9
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
8.7
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
21.7
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
10.8
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths

Firearm deaths count every intent together, and nationally the majority are suicides rather than homicides. The two columns overlap and should not be added.

Age-adjusted rates from provisional death certificate records, published by the CDC for Delaware County as a whole — these rates are not published below county level. A county can hold both a dense city centre and a suburb whose experience of it is nothing alike, so this describes the county around Broomall rather than Broomall itself. That is why AreaProfile shows these figures and does not put them in the Area Score. Where fewer than ten deaths were recorded the count is suppressed at source, and a rate built on single figures moves sharply between releases. What this measure has that reported crime does not: a death certificate is filed whether or not the local police agency submitted a return that year, so the figures stay comparable between places and over time.

What this profile does not cover

Three things people look for are missing from every AreaProfile page, and each is missing for a reason rather than by oversight. The Area Score is calculated without them and the weighting is documented on the methodology page.

Reported crime
Offences reported to police are published by department rather than by town, and only where a department reported every month of the year. No municipal department reports for this place — many smaller communities are policed by the county — so there is no figure to show. A partial year is never scaled up to look complete, and arrest counts or news volume are never substituted for it.
Taxes and full cost of living
No public source publishes either with national coverage and a method open enough to check. Housing affordability above is computed from published rent, price and income, and excludes transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes — commuting cost in particular tends to offset suburban housing savings. Nothing here is individualised tax advice.
Anything about a specific address
Every figure describes an area, not a street or a house. School attendance zones, insurance pricing and the character of a neighbourhood all vary within the places measured here.

Access

6 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 9 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Philadelphia IntlPHL9 mi12,000 ft
Atlantic City IntlACY54 mi10,001 ft
Harrisburg IntlMDT76 mi10,001 ft

Airport identity, position and runway data come from the FAA. “Major airport” is an AreaProfile classification — a public-use civil airport with a paved runway of at least 8,000 feet — not an FAA hub designation. Distances are straight-line, not driving distance.

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Other cities in Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD

Same metropolitan area, measured the same way
CityCountyPopulationArea ScoreCompare
PhiladelphiaPhiladelphia County1,579,70661vs Broomall
WilmingtonNew Castle County71,72754vs Broomall
CamdenCamden County71,496vs Broomall
LevittownBucks County50,926vs Broomall
SicklervilleCamden County44,998vs Broomall
NorristownMontgomery County35,89365vs Broomall
ChesterDelaware County33,61955vs Broomall
Drexel HillDelaware County30,451vs Broomall
NewarkNew Castle County30,33048vs Broomall
King of PrussiaMontgomery County25,857vs Broomall
MiddletownNew Castle County24,66166vs Broomall
GlassboroGloucester County23,71772vs Broomall

Every city here is measured on the same scale from the same source releases, so the comparison is like for like. A higher Area Score reflects AreaProfile’s standardized weighting rather than a judgment about which is the better place to live.

Data & methodology

Used forSourceSource periodUpdated
AccessFederal Aviation Administration
Airports (NASR) — Aeronautical Data Delivery Service
NASR current cycle28-day NASR cycle
Physical riskFederal Emergency Management Agency
National Risk Index
National Risk Index December 2025 (v1.20.0)Periodic dataset versions (v1.20.0 current)
ClimateNOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020 (Monthly)
1991-2020 NormalsEvery ten years (next release follows the 2001–2030 period)
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
June 2026Monthly
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
2025 OEWSAnnual (spring release)
Demographics, Housing, Income, JobsU.S. Census Bureau
American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (Table-Based Summary File)
2024 ACS 5-YearAnnual (5-year estimates released each December)
safetyU.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics
Provisional county-level mortality by intent
April, 2025 to March, 2026Quarterly, with a rolling twelve-month window alongside complete calendar years
schoolsU.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessments
2019-20 school year; 2024-25 school yearDirectory annually; assessment results as EDFacts releases them
ClimateU.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Air Quality System
Daily Air Quality Index by county
2024 calendar yearAnnually, once a calendar year is complete

Profile recalculated August 30, 2026. Recalculation is not the same as new source data — each figure above shows the period its source actually covers. Read the full methodology or browse every source.

ZIP codes in Broomall

1 published ZIP profiles
ZIPPopulationMedian household incomeArea Score
1900820,697$119,698