19320Coatesville, Pennsylvania

Area Profile

Income, jobs, climate, physical risk and development data for ZIP code 19320.

68out of 100
Area Score
Top 23% of 5,298 published profiles

How we calculate this

How this area ranks
OpportunityTop 4% of 6,210 published ZIP areas84
Schools3149th of 4,422 published ZIP areas35
Growth4630th of 5,428 published ZIP areas28
Housing affordabilityTop 30% of 6,685 published ZIP areas91
Climate4320th of 6,789 published ZIP areas65
Physical resilienceTop 16% of 6,709 published ZIP areas85
Access4946th of 6,791 published ZIP areas84
Economic stabilityTop 41% of 6,742 published ZIP areas64
The quick read

19320 ranks in the top 4% of published ZIP profiles for employment opportunity, with unemployment at 3.0% and median household income of $90,601.

In the public schools here, 15% of students met the state standard in mathematics, with 13.6 students for every teacher.

Natural-hazard exposure is lower than in most comparable published ZIP profiles, placing 19320 in the top 16% for physical resilience.

At a glance

Population
55,941
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$90,601
Top 26% nationally
Density
686/sq mi
81.6 sq mi of land
Median age
41.2
2024 ACS 5-Year
City
Coatesville
Pennsylvania
Metro area
Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD
Nearest major airport
PHL
32 mi · Philadelphia Intl
Median home value
$330,100
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 3.0% is lower than 96% of the 6,544 measured US ZIP areas.

Employment grew 2.9% over the past year, to 301,662 employed residents.

MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Median household income ±$6,324$90,601Top 26%2024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$2,443$44,164Top 29%2024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate10.0%Bottom 47%2024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute31.7 minTop 30%2024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher30.9%Top 33%2024 ACS 5-Year
Employment301,662Top 16%June 2026
Employment change (3 years)1.4%Top 31%June 2026
Employment change (year over year)2.9%Top 2%June 2026
Labor force311,034Top 16%June 2026
Labor force participation65.5%Top 30%2024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$71,730Top 34%2025 OEWS
Median annual wage$54,310Top 35%2025 OEWS
Unemployment change (year over year)-0.4%Bottom 25%June 2026
Unemployment rate3.0%Bottom 4%June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202491k82k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $90,601 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 does not publish labor-force data for ZIP areas. This is the figure for Coatesville, PA, the city containing this ZIP code.

15% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 29% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 13.6 students for every full-time teacher, fewer than in most measured places.

Public schools
8
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
13.6
across all schools here
Math proficiency
15.0%
Bottom 28% in Pennsylvania
Reading proficiency
29.2%
Bottom 21% in Pennsylvania
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Coatesville Area SHSCoatesville Area SD1,36615.3
Coatesville Intermediate HSCoatesville Area SD82615.98%27%
Rainbow El SchCoatesville Area SD68413.418%30%
Kings Highway El SchCoatesville Area SD46613.320%35%
Scott MSCoatesville Area SD42113.6
Reeceville El SchCoatesville Area SD38411.612%21%
East Fallowfield El SchCoatesville Area SD28110.825%35%
North Brandywine MSCoatesville Area SD2749.8

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 $1,410 takes 19% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 3.6 times median household income here, above the historic benchmark of about three times income.

Rent as a share of income
18.7%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
3.6×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$1,410
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$330,100
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Home price to income3.64Top 36%2024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate73.8%Bottom 37%2024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±63821,602Top 3%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$58$1,410Top 25%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$11,459$330,100Top 29%2024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income18.7%Top 43%2024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate5.3%Bottom 24%2024 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 →
Development Momentum
28/ 100
Ranks 4630 of 5,428 published city 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.

At 0.0 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is below the median for measured US ZIP areas.

Units permitted
0
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
0.0
Bottom 1% nationally
Year over year
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
units in 5+ unit buildings

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

Weather & climate

5 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 84°F and January a low of 23°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 47.1 inches.

Air quality measures a median index of 41, in the Good band, and about 3 days a year pass 100, the threshold at which the air is unhealthy for sensitive groups.

10°30°50°70°90°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station AVONDALE 2 N, 7.6 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND4.5"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index61.02024 calendar year
Annual precipitation47.1"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low23°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high84°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months51991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 10032024 calendar year
Median air quality index41.02024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing43°F1991-2020 Normals
Air quality
Median air quality index
41
Good on a typical day
Worst tenth of days
61
90th percentile index
Days above 100
3
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

85 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are heat wave, drought and hurricane.

DroughtElevated
Heat waveModerate
EarthquakeModerate
HurricaneModerate
LandslideModerate

Low or minimal exposure: winter weather, strong wind, inland flooding, lightning, tornado, ice storm, cold wave, hail, wildfire.

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

Chester County records 1.4 homicide deaths per 100,000 residents a year, lower than most counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Firearm deaths of all intents run at 6.9 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 10.2 per 100,000 residents in Chester County.

Homicide
1.4
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
6.9
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
10.2
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
12.9
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 Chester 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 19320 rather than 19320 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
The FBI’s Crime Data Explorer is the only source for reported offences with national coverage and a published method, and it requires an API key AreaProfile does not hold. Arrest counts, news volume and commercial “safety scores” are not substituted in the meantime. What is published above under Safety is a different measurement — deaths rather than offences, from death certificates rather than police returns — and it covers no property crime at all.
Taxes
No tax dataset has met the source admission test for coverage, transparent methodology and update cadence. Nothing here is individualized tax advice.
Full cost of living
No public source publishes one with national coverage and a documented method. 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.

Access

4 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 32 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Philadelphia IntlPHL32 mi12,000 ft
Harrisburg IntlMDT52 mi10,001 ft
Baltimore/Washington Intl Thurgood MarshallBWI70 mi10,503 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 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)
DemographicsU.S. Census Bureau
Population Estimates Program
July 1, 2024 estimateAnnual (vintage released each spring)
DevelopmentU.S. Census Bureau
Building Permits Survey
12 months ending July 2026Monthly, roughly three weeks after the reference month
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.

19320 vs Coatesville

How this ZIP area compares with Coatesville as a whole. Both figures come from the same ACS release, so the comparison is like for like.

19320
Coatesville
Median household income
$90,601
vs
$59,256
Per capita income
$44,164
vs
$30,057
Population density
686/sq mi
vs
7,386/sq mi
Median home value
$330,100
vs
$194,000
Median gross rent
$1,410
vs
$1,471
Homeownership rate
73.8%
vs
40.0%
Bachelor's degree or higher
30.9%
vs
19.8%
Poverty rate
10.0%
vs
18.1%
Median age
41.2
vs
35.7

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.