19008 — Broomall, Pennsylvania

Area Profile

Income, jobs, climate, physical risk and development data for ZIP code 19008. Its median household income runs 13% above Broomall as a whole, which is why this ZIP carries a profile of its own.

77out of 100
Area Score
Top 2% of 3,113 profiles measured

How we calculate this

How this area ranks

Data updated · 14 sources
OpportunityTop 4% of 3,116 ZIP areas measured83
SchoolsTop 4% of 3,047 ZIP areas measured88
Growth2,694th of 3,124 ZIP areas measured29
Housing affordabilityTop 15% of 3,112 ZIP areas measured79
ClimateTop 48% of 3,127 ZIP areas measured71
Physical resilienceTop 8% of 3,127 ZIP areas measured91
AccessTop 4% of 3,127 ZIP areas measured100
Economic stabilityTop 12% of 3,127 ZIP areas measured77
The quick read

19008 ranks in the top 4% of ZIP areas measured for employment opportunity, with unemployment at 3.8% and median household income of $119,698. The unemployment rate is published for Broomall, PA, which contains 19008, rather than for 19008 alone.

Public schools test above most of the state: 66% of students met the mathematics standard, placing the area in the top 4% of published profiles for schools.

Residential permitting has slowed: 183 units authorized over the past twelve months, 25% below the prior year. The permit count and 1 other measure here are published for Broomall, PA, which contains 19008, rather than for 19008 alone.

These sentences are written by fixed rules from the measurements below — a statement appears because a number crossed a stated threshold, and the values behind it are stored with it. No figure anywhere on this site is invented, estimated or inferred to fill a gap. How this works.

At a glance

Population
20,697
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$119,698
Top 9% nationally
Density
3,166/sq mi
6.5 sq mi of land
Median age
44.5
2024 ACS 5-Year
City
Broomall
Pennsylvania
Nearest major airport
PHL
10 mi · Philadelphia Intl
Median home value
$500,300
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment across Broomall, PA, which contains 19008, is 3.8%, lower than in 71% of the 3,127 measured US ZIP areas.

Employment across Broomall, PA, which contains 19008, grew 2.7% over the past year, to 298,236 employed residents.

51% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 88% of measured US ZIP areas.

Median household income of $119,698 is higher than in 91% of measured US ZIP areas.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Income of new arrivalsDelaware County, PA’s figurefiling years 2022–2023$97,34984th percentileof 2,996filing years 2022–2023
Income of those who leftDelaware County, PA’s figurefiling years 2022–2023$91,04884th percentileof 2,996filing years 2022–2023
Median household income ±$10,0342024 ACS 5-Year$119,698Top 9%of 31,0492024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$3,9522024 ACS 5-Year$56,329Top 13%of 32,8222024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year3.8%Top 14%of 32,8462024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute ±1.3 min2024 ACS 5-Year28.9 minBottom 44%of 32,8872024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year50.8%Top 12%of 33,1932024 ACS 5-Year
Drove alone to work ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year71.5%34th percentileof 32,7982024 ACS 5-Year
EmploymentBroomall, PA’s figureJuly 2026298,236Top 14%of 3,127July 2026
Employment change (3 years)Broomall, PA’s figureJuly 2026+2.2%Top 21%of 3,127July 2026
Employment change (year over year)Broomall, PA’s figureJuly 2026+2.7%Top 5%of 3,127July 2026
Labor forceBroomall, PA’s figureJuly 2026310,09286th percentileof 3,127July 2026
Labor force participation ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year83.4%Top 27%of 32,8832024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wagePhiladelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD Metro Area’s figure2025 OEWS$71,730Top 29%of 2,7602025 OEWS
Median annual wagePhiladelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD Metro Area’s figure2025 OEWS$54,310Top 29%of 2,7602025 OEWS
Public transit to work ±0.7%2024 ACS 5-Year1.3%82nd percentileof 32,7982024 ACS 5-Year
Unemployment change (year over year)Broomall, PA’s figureJuly 2026−1.1%Top 8%of 3,127July 2026
Unemployment rateBroomall, PA’s figureJuly 20263.8%Top 29%of 3,127July 2026
Worked from home ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year18.8%82nd percentileof 32,7982024 ACS 5-Year

Median household income, successive ACS releases

2021202220232024128k117k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $119,698 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

Searches the 40 largest occupations here that have a published wage.

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 does not publish labor-force data for ZIP areas. This is the figure for Broomall, PA, the city containing this ZIP code.

66% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 82% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 12.6 students for every full-time teacher across 4 public schools, fewer than in most measured places.

Public schools
5
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
12.6
across 4 of them
Math proficiency
66.1%
Top 15% in Pennsylvania
Reading proficiency
81.8%
Top 9% in Pennsylvania
All 5 public schools on record, largest first.
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Paxon Hollow MSMarple Newtown SD86813.851%79%
Worrall El SchMarple Newtown SD44913.681%87%
Russell El SchMarple Newtown SD40010.567%77%
Loomis El SchMarple Newtown SD37611.882%87%
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, not how the schools perform, so it is shown and not scored.

Public schools only, from the NCES Common Core of Data, placed by ZIP code — which schools are in this place, not which one a particular address is zoned for. A dash in a proficiency column is a gap in the federal file, not a bad result. Proficiency is measured against Pennsylvania’s own standard, so it is ranked within state. How to read school figures.

Prices for everything a household buys run about 2% above the national average — the Bureau of Economic Analysis index reads 102.4, against 100 for the nation. Nationally, housing drives most of the spread between places in this index; other goods vary far less.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency’s house price index for the Philadelphia, PA Metropolitan Division is up 34% over five years, and up 4.3% over the last year. It follows repeat sales of the same homes, so it measures price change rather than which homes happened to sell.

Homeowners here who pay a tax bill pay a median of $5,868 a year in real estate taxes, about 1.17% of the median home value.

HUD’s Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom, set near the 40th percentile of recent new leases, is $2,040, some 23% above the $1,654 tenants already here pay.

At HUD’s Fair Market Rent of $2,040 a month for a two-bedroom, keeping rent to 30% of income takes a household income of about $81,600 a year, about 68% of the median household income here of $119,698.

The typical renter household here spends 24% of its income on rent, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened. Median gross rent runs $1,654 a month.

A median home at $500,300 costs 3.6 times the median income of its owner-occupied households, $139,332, above the historic benchmark of about 3 times income.

Cost of living
102.4

Prices here run about 2% above the national average. The spread between places is driven mostly by housing — goods vary far less — and this excludes taxes.

Published for the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD Metro Area as a whole. Prices are regional — people shop, commute and rent across a metropolitan area rather than within a city boundary — so this describes the cost of living around this place better than a figure drawn to its own limits would.

Rent as a share of income
24.2%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
3.6×
median home value ÷ owner household income
Market rent, two bedroom
$2,040
what a new lease costs · FY2026
Median gross rent
$1,654
what tenants now pay · 2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$500,300
2024 ACS 5-Year

The figures above are measured against 19008’s median household income of $119,698, which describes the place rather than you. Enter your own and the ratio is recomputed against it. It stays in this browser.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Cost of living indexthe Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD Metro Area’s figure2023102.4Bottom 39%of 2,7372023
Home price change (1 year)the Philadelphia, PA Metropolitan Division’s figure2026 Q2+4.3%72nd percentileof 3,0712026 Q2
Home price change (5 years)the Philadelphia, PA Metropolitan Division’s figure2026 Q2+33.5%21st percentileof 3,0712026 Q2
Home price change (10 years)the Philadelphia, PA Metropolitan Division’s figure2026 Q2+82.3%31st percentileof 3,0712026 Q2
Home price to income ±0.32024 ACS 5-Year3.6Bottom 25%of 29,2752024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year84.3%66th percentileof 32,7502024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±2842024 ACS 5-Year7,54179th percentileof 33,4602024 ACS 5-Year
Market rent, one bedroomFY2026$1,710Bottom 25%of 3,031FY2026
Market rent, three bedroomFY2026$2,450Bottom 29%of 3,031FY2026
Market rent, two bedroomFY2026$2,040Bottom 24%of 3,031FY2026
Median gross rent ±$1102024 ACS 5-Year$1,654Bottom 17%of 26,3962024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$20,4102024 ACS 5-Year$500,30088th percentileof 30,8122024 ACS 5-Year
Median property taxes ±$1592024 ACS 5-Year$5,86892nd percentileof 28,9352024 ACS 5-Year
Owner household income ±$11,0592024 ACS 5-Year$139,332Top 9%of 29,8022024 ACS 5-Year
Property tax rate ±0.06%2024 ACS 5-Year1.17%67th percentileof 24,0992024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income ±4%2024 ACS 5-Year24.2%Top 29%of 26,2472024 ACS 5-Year
Seasonal and second homes ±222024 ACS 5-Year01st percentileof 33,7722024 ACS 5-Year
Second homes2024 ACS 5-Year0.0%1st percentileof 32,9612024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate2024 ACS 5-Year4.6%33rd percentileof 32,7882024 ACS 5-Year
Vacant housing units ±1532024 ACS 5-Year34566th percentileof 33,7722024 ACS 5-Year

These measures come from the same ACS release as the income they are compared with. They compare housing cost with local earnings only: transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes are not in them. How to read affordability, the two rent figures and the cost-of-living index.

Development Momentum

29/ 100
Ranks 2,694 of 3,124 published ZIP profiles

An AreaProfile calculation combining permit volume per resident, its direction over one and three years, population change and employment growth. Permit volume alone is not the measure.

New construction is predominantly single-family: of 183 units permitted over the past twelve months, none were in buildings of five or more homes. The multifamily share is published for Broomall, PA, which contains 19008, rather than for 19008 alone.

At 0.3 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is below the median for measured US ZIP areas. The permit rate is published for Broomall, PA, which contains 19008, rather than for 19008 alone.

Units permitted
183
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
0.3
Bottom 9% nationally
Year over year
−25%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
0.0%
units in 5+ unit buildings

People moving in and out

Net migration
−0.4%
of residents, in a year
Arrivals from another state
36%
of people moving in
Income of arrivals
$97,349
average per tax return
Income of those who left
$91,048
average per tax return

Where newcomers came from

  1. Philadelphia County, PA 8,248 people · 40% of arrivals
  2. Montgomery County, PA 1,905 people · 9.2% of arrivals
  3. Chester County, PA 1,895 people · 9.1% of arrivals
  4. New Castle County, DE 1,243 people · 6.0% of arrivals
  5. Bucks County, PA 337 people · 1.6% of arrivals

Where people who left went

  1. Philadelphia County, PA 4,819 people · 21% of departures
  2. Chester County, PA 3,183 people · 14% of departures
  3. Montgomery County, PA 2,099 people · 9.3% of departures
  4. New Castle County, DE 1,997 people · 8.8% of departures
  5. Bucks County, PA 400 people · 1.8% of departures

Based on the address on federal tax returns, compared with the same filers a year earlier. It counts people who file, and sees a move only when the address on a return changes. Domestic moves only: people arriving from abroad are left out. This is the figure for Delaware County, PA. IRS Statistics of Income, filing years 2022–2023.

The Building Permits Survey is not published for ZIP areas. This is the figure for Broomall, PA, the city containing this ZIP code.

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.

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, 10.1 miles from this location.

Precipitation

JFMAMJJASOND4.4"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index2024 calendar year642024 calendar year
Annual precipitation1991-2020 Normals44.1"1991-2020 Normals
Annual snowfall1991-2020 Normals23.1"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low1991-2020 Normals26°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high1991-2020 Normals88°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months1991-2020 Normals61991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 1002024 calendar year22024 calendar year
Median air quality index2024 calendar year432024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing1991-2020 Normals45°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. Air quality is measured by EPA monitors and published by county only where a monitor sits; a county without one shows nothing rather than an estimate, and a county reading is still the county’s. How to read climate and air quality.

Physical risk

91 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are inland flooding, earthquake and heat wave, with inland flooding alone responsible for 55% of it. Inland flooding and heat wave are independently rated low or minimal nationally, so this describes how the loss is composed, not how large those hazards are.

Overall hazard risk is lower than 92% of measured US ZIP areas.

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, tsunami, volcanic activity.

Hazard ratings are AreaProfile calculations derived from the FEMA National Risk Index v1.20.0 (December 2025). FEMA publishes at county level. ZIP values are the land-area-weighted mean of the counties the ZIP Code Tabulation Area intersects. Expected annual loss is not allocated below county level. FEMA does not endorse this presentation. Higher physical resilience means lower exposure.

These are deaths, not offenses — they say nothing about burglary, theft or assault.

Homicide
5.2
per 100,000 residents
Firearm deaths, all intents
9.2
per 100,000 residents
Drug overdose
21.3
per 100,000 residents
Suicide
10.8
per 100,000 residents

Firearm deaths count every intent together, and nationally the majority are suicides rather than homicides, so the firearm figure and the homicide figure above it count some of the same deaths twice over. They overlap and should not be added together.

Death rates are crude rates — deaths divided by population, not adjusted for age — except where a count was too small for the CDC to publish and it modeled the rate, which the card marks. They come from provisional death certificate records, published by the CDC by county and not below it. So they describe the county around 19008 (Delaware County) rather than 19008 itself. They are shown and not scored. How to read death rates.

What this profile does not cover

Each of these is absent for a reason, not by oversight. The Area Score is calculated without them; the weighting is on the methodology page.

Reported crime
Offenses reported to police are published by department rather than by town, so AreaProfile shows a rate only on city profiles, and only where that city’s department submitted every month of a year. A ZIP area is not a jurisdiction, so no department reports for one. Broomall carries the figure where its department reported a full year. A partial year is never scaled up to look complete, and arrest counts or news volume are never substituted for it.
Taxes
Income and sales taxes are not published: no source covers them nationally with a method open enough to check. Property taxes are shown in the housing section but are not part of the score. The cost-of-living index above is a price level for all consumption, not a household budget, and it excludes taxes. Nothing here is individualized tax advice.
Anything about a specific address
Every figure describes an area, not a street or a house.

Access

7 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest Philadelphia Intl at 10 miles.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Broadband access ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year94.3%Top 24%of 32,6632024 ACS 5-Year
Distance to major airportNASR current cycle10 miTop 24%of 3,127NASR current cycle
Major airports within 100 milesNASR current cycle7Top 11%of 3,127NASR current cycle
No internet access ±1%2024 ACS 5-Year2.7%Top 18%of 32,6632024 ACS 5-Year
AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Philadelphia IntlPHL10 mi12,000 ft
Atlantic City IntlACY55 mi10,001 ft
Dover AFBDOV59 mi9,602 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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Data & methodology

Used forSourceSource period
AccessFederal Aviation Administration
Airports (NASR) — Aeronautical Data Delivery Service
NASR current cycle
Physical riskFederal Emergency Management Agency
National Risk Index
National Risk Index December 2025 (v1.20.0)
Demographics, IncomeInternal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income Division
U.S. Population Migration Data (county to county)
filing years 2022–2023
ClimateNOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020 (Monthly)
1991-2020 Normals
HousingU.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
Regional price parities and county personal income
2023
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
July 2026
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
2025 OEWS
Access, Demographics, Housing, Income, JobsU.S. Census Bureau
American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (Table-Based Summary File)
2024 ACS 5-Year
DevelopmentU.S. Census Bureau
Building Permits Survey
12 months ending July 2026
SafetyU.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics
Provisional county-level mortality by intent
March 2025 to February 2026; May 2025 to April 2026
SchoolsU.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessments
2018-19 school year; 2024-25 school year
HousingU.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy Development and Research
Fair Market Rents
FY2026
ClimateU.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Air Quality System
Daily Air Quality Index by county
2024 calendar year
HousingU.S. Federal Housing Finance Agency
House Price Index (traditional, all-transactions)
2026 Q2
Current conditionsNOAA National Weather Service
National Weather Service current conditions
Live observation, read when the page opens

Profile recalculated October 8, 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 every source with how often each updates.

19008 vs Broomall

How this ZIP area compares with Broomall as a whole. Both figures come from the same ACS release, so the comparison is like for like — a gap here is a real difference between the two places, not two surveys disagreeing.

19008
Broomall
Median household income: 19008 is the more favorable of the two.
Median household income
$119,698
vs
$105,625
Per capita income: 19008 is the more favorable of the two.
Per capita income
$56,329
vs
$54,296
Population density
3,166/sq mi
vs
3,371/sq mi
Median home value
$500,300
vs
$483,000
Median gross rent: 19008 is the more favorable of the two.
Median gross rent
$1,654
vs
$1,765
Homeownership rate
84.3%
vs
78.8%
Bachelor's degree or higher: 19008 is the more favorable of the two.
Bachelor's degree or higher
50.8%
vs
45.1%
Poverty rate: 19008 is the more favorable of the two.
Poverty rate
3.8%
vs
4.1%
Median age
44.5
vs
47.3

Some demographic statistics use Census ZIP Code Tabulation Areas, which approximate but do not exactly match USPS ZIP delivery geography. See the methodology for how AreaProfile maps between them.