PlainZIP

Fort Hill, PA

Single-footprint Census roll-up for Fort Hill, PA: 1 USPS ZIP, population 290. Open the primary ZIP for household income, housing tenure, and commute from ACS 2023 5-Year Estimates.

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ACS city ledger plate

Sheet FORT-HILL-PA · Fort Hill, PA 1 ZIPs · 290 pop · #12891/25278 · Somerset County

INC-MID · RANK-MID · ABOVE-PEER · BOOK-ONE · OWN-HIGH · POP-VILLAGE · SPREAD-UNK · HOME-MID

  • INC-MID $70,875
  • RANK-MID #12891/25278
  • ABOVE-PEER over Meyersdale
  • BOOK-ONE 1 ZIP
  • OWN-HIGH 87% owners
  • POP-VILLAGE 290
  • SPREAD-UNK Single-ZIP book
  • HOME-MID $206,800

Nearest income peer: Meyersdale, PA ( $5,324 income $)

Instrument codes from this city’s ACS household income, national rank, county-peer gap, ZIP book, owner tenure, population scale, intra-city income spread, and home-value band, not a moving recommendation.

Income neighbourhood around Fort Hill

Lowest/highest poles plus county-sharing cities nearest Fort Hill on average ZIP median household income. Full ladder: /cities.

median HH income

What this shows County-sharing peers only, not the full US city board. Open a near peer when the gap is small; open the poles when the mosaic is wide.

Source U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 5-Year Estimates As of 2026-08-25

National city placement

According to ACS 5-Year Estimates, Fort Hill, PA sits among US cities with a below-median household income, on a village-scale population base, across a single-ZIP footprint.

49th pct
household income vs 25,278 US cities
290
city population (Census)
1
USPS ZIP codes covered
$70,875
avg ZIP median income

Income percentile ranks this city's average ZIP median household income against 25,278 US cities with ACS income on at least one ZIP. Scale and ZIP-spread words come from Census population and USPS ZIP coverage.

Below-median income with few delivery areas (1): read cost-of-living from the primary ZIP. Household income $70,875 and poverty 9.4% concentrate in 15540.

Owner-occupancy here runs high (87.3%) - tenure is stable enough that the ZIP detail's owner share is the right next click, not a renter-heavy compare.

Within Pennsylvania, Ford Cliff is the closest lower-income city and Alexandria the closest higher-income city by average ZIP household income. Their 1 and 1 ZIP footprints are the immediate statewide comparison set for Fort Hill.

Population concentration

Fort Hill reads through its lone ZIP, 15540

290 ACS residents, one ZIP: 15540 is not the leading code inside Fort Hill, it is the only one on file. Treat the ZIP page as the primary source for anything below the city-wide total.

Census ZBP business roll-up

Mid-pack ZBP load on Fort Hill's one ZIP

Citywide ZBP: 5 establishments, 27 employees , annual payroll $2,124k (~17 establishments per 1,000 residents) across 1 of 1 ZIPs. Peak business ZIP 15540 (5 units) .

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ZIP Codes in Fort Hill, PA

These ZIP codes sit in Somerset County, which covers 35 ZIP codes in all; 1 of them fall in Fort Hill. See the Somerset County roll-up →

No other city sharing Somerset County reports a higher average ZIP median income than Fort Hill. Somerset, Windber and Meyersdale sit below it, so a household comparing this county on income alone starts here. Confluence marks the far end of that range at $56,190, 21% below Fort Hill.

ZIP Code Population Median income Establishments Density
15540 290 $70,875 5 3
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