#1Fox Chapel
Allegheny County · 5,139 peopleMedian household income·±$39,371 margin·3.2% in poverty
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Fox Chapel, #1 on this list · Photo: Brastins · CC BY-SA 3.0Fox Chapel has the highest median household income of Pennsylvania’s 1,035 towns of 2,500+: $243,625 a year (Census ACS 2020–2024). The typical town here is at $81,065; 262 of the 1,035 top $100,000.
Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020–2024: median household income. Each figure is an estimate with a margin of error (in the row); towns whose ranges overlap may not truly differ. The survey reports incomes over $250,000 only as “$250,000+”. A described list: no letters. How grades work
#1Median household income·±$39,371 margin·3.2% in poverty
#2Median household income·±$23,963 margin·1.3% in poverty
#3Median household income·±$39,086 margin·0.9% in poverty
Median household income, highest first. Towns with the same figure share a rank (T = tied; 47 towns here).
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Fox Chapel (Allegheny County): its median household income is $243,625 (±$39,371). Pocopson Township ($230,000) and West Pikeland Township ($226,071) follow.
By median household income in the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (2020–2024), highest first. Towns with the same figure share a rank (T), including every town at the survey’s $250,000+ ceiling. How grades work.
The list covers the towns of 2,500+ that TownRatings grades with an ACS income figure (1,035 in Pennsylvania). Smaller towns show their income on their own page. Every town is on the Pennsylvania page.
Every list ranks the same 2,500+ towns, so a town’s rank means the same thing on each.