Lancaster, PA
Single-footprint Census roll-up for Lancaster, PA: 4 USPS ZIPs, population 164,596. Open the primary ZIP for household income, housing tenure, and commute from ACS 2023 5-Year Estimates.
U.S. Census Bureau, SimpleMaps US ZIP Code Database, delivery-area ZIP coverage
ACS city ledger plate
Sheet LANCASTER-PA · Lancaster, PA 4 ZIPs · 164,596 pop · #7684/25278 · Lancaster County
INC-HIGH · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-FEW · OWN-LOW · POP-MID · SPREAD-MOD · HOME-MID
- INC-HIGH $85,127
- RANK-UPPER #7684/25278
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Manheim
- BOOK-FEW 4 ZIPs
- OWN-LOW 52% owners
- POP-MID 164,596
- SPREAD-MOD 17602→17601
- HOME-MID $296,167
Nearest income peer: Manheim, PA ( $423 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 Lancaster
Lowest/highest poles plus county-sharing cities nearest Lancaster on average ZIP median household income. Full ladder: /cities.
- Columbia · lowest
Columbia · lowest
$66,684 median HH income
- New Holland · near
New Holland · near
$82,491 median HH income
- Manheim · near
Manheim · near
$84,704 median HH income
- Lancaster · this city
Lancaster · this city
$85,127 median HH income
- Elizabethtown · near
Elizabethtown · near
$86,767 median HH income
- Leola · near
Leola · near
$91,895 median HH income
- Willow Street · highest
Willow Street · highest
$108,723 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.
National city placement
According to ACS 5-Year Estimates, Lancaster, PA sits among US cities with an above-median household income, on a mid-size population base, across a handful of delivery areas.
- Top 30%
- household income vs 25,278 US cities
- 164,596
- city population (Census)
- 4
- USPS ZIP codes covered
- $85,127
- 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.
Above-median income on a short ZIP list (4) - lead code 17603 (61,973 residents). Household income $85,127 is the roll-up; open the ZIP for tenure and commute.
Owner-occupancy is comparatively low (52.4%) for this income tier, rent $1,610 may matter more than the home-value average.
Within Pennsylvania, Pleasant Mount is the closest lower-income city and East Stroudsburg the closest higher-income city by average ZIP household income. Their 1 and 2 ZIP footprints are the immediate statewide comparison set for Lancaster.
Within-city ZIP comparison
Where the ZIP codes inside Lancaster differ
The most material local contrast is hardship rather than the city-wide income average. Poverty is 5.9% in ZIP 17601 and 40.9% in 17606. That spread is why the ZIP detail pages are more useful than a single city figure for comparing household conditions.
- Income high-to-low ratio
- 1.4×
- Home-value high-to-low ratio
- 1.4×
- Poverty-rate spread
- 35 points
17602 to 17601
17603 to 17601
17601 to 17606
Derived from the published ACS 2023 ZIP-level records shown on this site. A high-to-low ratio compares the highest and lowest available ZIP values; it is not a score or forecast.
Population concentration
Lancaster residents split across a short ZIP set
No ZIP owns Lancaster: the largest, 17603, is only about 38% of 164,596 residents across 4 codes. Compare at least two ZIPs before treating the city roll-up as a neighborhood answer.
Census ZBP business roll-up
Employer-heavy short list in Lancaster
Citywide ZBP: 4,863 establishments, 99,711 employees , annual payroll $5,445,496k (~30 establishments per 1,000 residents) across 4 of 4 ZIPs. Peak business ZIP 17601 (2,203 units) ; leading NAICS Retail trade (785) · also Health care and social assistance · Other services (except public administration) .
ZIP Codes in Lancaster, PA
These ZIP codes sit in Lancaster County, which covers 49 ZIP codes in all; 4 of them fall in Lancaster. See the Lancaster County roll-up →
Lancaster lands mid-pack among the 12 cities sharing Lancaster County: Lititz, Mount Joy and Denver earn more and Ephrata, Columbia and New Holland earn less. Willow Street marks the far end of that range at $108,723, 28% above Lancaster.
Side-by-side: Compare 17603 vs 17602 →
Lancaster roll-ups here are for informational purposes only and do not constitute financial or relocation advice. ACS and Census ZBP figures are estimates; confirm the current table against Census before a money or move decision involving Lancaster, .