ZIP 19436 vs ZIP 19454

This side-by-side compares ZIP 19436 (Gwynedd, PA) and ZIP 19454 (North Wales, PA) using the same Census ACS 5-Year table fields for both — no averages swapped in, no national proxies. ZIP 19436 has a population of 640 at 704 people per square mile, while ZIP 19454 has 27,870 at 825 per square mile. That difference in population size and density alone reshapes how every other metric should be interpreted — a higher-income ZIP with 1,200 residents behaves very differently from one with 45,000.

On income and education, ZIP 19436 reports a median household income of $77,159 against $118,177 in ZIP 19454, with per-capita income of $138,628 vs $61,712. The share of adults holding a bachelor's degree or higher is 83.9% in 19436 and 56.4% in 19454. Poverty rate reads 2.7% vs 4.6%, and unemployment — vs 3.8% — these four fields alone drive most of the difference in the scorecard grades you will see for each ZIP.

Housing separates these two ZIPs further: median home value sits at — in 19436 versus $457,900 in 19454, with median rent of $3,501 and $1,766 per month respectively. Homeownership rate is 7.1% vs 77.7%. When reading the comparison table below, focus on paired metrics rather than single winners — a ZIP with lower home values and lower income is not strictly "worse" if rent-to-income ratios and commute times land in the same zone. Every value is pulled from the exact same ACS table so the two columns are genuinely comparable.