City safety & data profile

EriePA

Erie, PA is a 99K-resident city in Erie County with a median household income of $46,113.

Erie County, Pennsylvania. Federal health, economic, and safety indicators for Erie, drawn from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey, CDC PLACES, and CMS Hospital Compare. Erie has a population larger than 92% of the 4,640 U.S. cities Areazine tracks, a median home value of $115,200, and 4 hospitals serving the surrounding area.

Data updated 2026-09-05

99K
Population (place)
Top 8%
By size
$46,113
Median income (place)
$115,200
Median home (place)
23.3%
Poverty rate (place)
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The read on Erie

Erie posts a median household income higher than 5% of U.S. cities Areazine tracks, where 4 hospitals serve the Erie area.

Bottom 6%
by median income, US cities
4
hospitals in & near Erie

Where Erie income ranks nationally

Median household income vs. every place Areazine profiles (place-level ACS)

$46,113 Bottom 5% higher than 5% of 3,889 places Areazine profiles

Erie $0 $260,000 every profiled place, bucketed by value

Each bar is a $20K-wide band; taller bars hold more places Areazine profiles. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (place-level) · 2024 ACS 5-year

Largest cities in PA

Population among 88 PA places with 10,000+ residents and ACS income on Areazine. Tooltip shows the income rank in the same pool.

residents

What this shows Philadelphia is the largest PA city on this list; Franklin Park leads median income.

Source U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (place-level) As of 2024 ACS 5-year

Highest median incomes in PA

Median household income among the same 88-city pool. Tooltip shows the population rank.

median

What this shows Franklin Park posts the highest place-level median income in PA; Philadelphia is largest by headcount.

Source U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (place-level) As of 2024 ACS 5-year

The quick read

Reading Erie, PA beyond the headline numbers

Erie sits inside Erie County, Pennsylvania, at roughly 42.13°N, -80.09°W. Population 99,475, $46,113 median household income. Median home value $115,200, median rent $870. Poverty rate 23.3%, read against that income figure since two cities on the same median can differ underneath it.

4 hospitals in/around Erie, 2.7/5 avg rating, 3 with an ER.

23.3% of Erie, PA residents live below the poverty line, placing it in the hardest-hit quarter of reporting cities. Read every median on this page against that: half the households are above it, and a large minority are far below.

Housing is inexpensive against local pay -- the median home in Erie runs about 2.5 years of median household income, in the cheapest quarter of reporting cities.

Only 7.9% of Erie workers report working from home, the lowest quarter of reporting cities -- an economy still built around showing up somewhere.

Among the CDC measures on this page, short sleep duration departs furthest from its peer median: 40.4% in Erie, the highest-prevalence quarter of the 3,852 cities reporting that measure.

2.3% of Erie workers commute by public transit, a larger share than at least three quarters of reporting cities.

Erie's median age is 34.8 years, in the youngest quarter of reporting cities.

Sources: U.S. Census ACS, CDC PLACES, CMS Hospital Compare, plus live alerts for Erie from FEMA, NOAA, FDA, and CPSC. Economic comparison bars use the unweighted average across tracked Census places with a reported value, not a household-weighted national median.

Population (place)
99,475
Erie · Census Place
Median Income (place)
$46,113
-48% vs avg
Median Home Value (place)
$115,200
-72% vs avg
Median Age (place)
34.8
years · ACS place

10-Year Trends 2013–2024

County-level trend (Erie County): Erie's own historical series isn't separately published by the Census Bureau, so these year-over-year figures track the surrounding county, not the city alone.

20132024
Population
269K-4%
Median Income
$63,354+40%
Median Home Value
$177,000+54%
Poverty Rate
15%-11%
Unemployment
5.4%-41%

Economics

Economics indicators for Erie, PA
IndicatorValue
Median Rent
$870/mo
Poverty Rate
23.3% +88% vs avg
Unemployment 7.1%
Bachelor's Degree+ 23.1%
Work From Home 7.9%
Public Transit 2.3%

Population

White 67.4%
African American 16.9%
Asian 2.8%
Two or More Ethnicities 4.3%

Health Profile 2 measures

Health Indicators

Short Sleep Duration
40.4%

Preventive Care

Dental Visit 54.7%

Hospitals 4 total

Rating Distribution
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1
Average Rating
2.7/5
Total Hospitals
4
With ER
3
SAINT VINCENT HOSPITAL
ERIE · Acute Care Hospitals · ER
★★★★☆
UPMC HAMOT
ERIE · Acute Care Hospitals · ER
★★★☆☆
LECOM MEDICAL CENTER AND BEHAVIORAL HEALTH PAV
ERIE · Acute Care Hospitals · ER
★☆☆☆☆

What alerts and safety updates affect Erie?

No area-tagged alerts are on record for Erie right now. New federal and counterpart-agency notices still land in the site feed as agencies publish them.

City alert dispatch desk

Sheet PA-ERIE-PA · Erie

Erie: 106 tagged alerts; lead category NWS weather alert.

  • VOL-HEAVY 106 on record
  • WX-LED 56% weather
  • DESK-MIX NOAA
  • NEAR-PEER 36 · Somerset

Tagged alert mix: Erie

Published notices carrying this city slug or location tag

Value

What this shows 106 tagged notices on record for Erie.

Source Areazine publication corpus As of Live tagged feed

Nearest tagged-volume peer: Somerset, NJ (36 tagged · Δ70)

Counts reflect published articles tagged to Erie; untagged NOAA county warnings may still appear in the site feed. Browse Pennsylvania state hubs · Methodology

Cities with a similar tagged alert volume 4

Nearest published-notice counts on Areazine (106 tagged here), a feed-density peer set, not an ACS demographic match.

Somerset, NJ 36 alerts El Paso, TX 16 alerts Phoenix, AZ 15 alerts California, MD 15 alerts

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Frequently Asked Questions 6

What is the population of Erie, PA? ▼
Erie, PA has a population of 99,475 people, located in Erie County, Pennsylvania.
What is the median household income in Erie? ▼
The median household income in Erie, PA is $46,113 per year, per the U.S. Census ACS. The poverty rate is 23.3%.
What is the median home value in Erie? ▼
The median home value in Erie, PA is $115,200. Median rent is $870/month.
What are the top health concerns in Erie? ▼
The top health indicators in Erie include Short Sleep Duration (40.4%). Data from CDC PLACES.
How many hospitals are in Erie? ▼
Erie has 4 hospitals with an average rating of 2.7/5 stars. 3 have emergency departments.
What is the median age in Erie? ▼
The median age in Erie, PA is 34.8 years. 23.1% of residents have a bachelor's degree or higher.

Nationwide cities with similar poverty or income 8

Two ACS-derived peer sets for Erie, both outside Pennsylvania so the neighborhoods are not the geographic nearby list below.

Similar poverty rate

Nearest place-level ACS poverty rates outside PA (23.3% here).

Akron, OH 23.3% Lake Charles, LA 23.3% Manhattan, KS 23.3% Madisonville, KY 23.3%

Similar median income

Nearest place-level ACS median household incomes outside PA ($46,113 here).

Lady Lake, FL $46,074 Peru, IN $46,159 Birmingham, AL $46,051 Gainesville, FL $46,195

Compare Erie with another city

Pick a second U.S. city to open a side-by-side profile on population, income, health, and hospitals, the same federal datasets as this page.

Quick picks:

Nearby Cities 8

Meadville, PA 13K Conneaut, OH 13K Ashtabula, OH 18K Oil City, PA 10K Fredonia, NY 11K Dunkirk, NY 12K Jamestown, NY 30K Hermitage, PA 16K
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Using Erie's profile

Use this as a starting research checklist, not a verdict on whether to live here.

  • Check live recalls, weather and hazard alerts scoped to the Erie area before relying on national headlines. Check your area
  • Read the poverty rate alongside the income figure, two places with the same median can have very different realities.
  • Compare Erie against Pennsylvania peers on any ranking lens. Explore Pennsylvania

Population and economics (income, home value, poverty, education) are place-level U.S. Census ACS; health is CDC PLACES; hospital counts reflect facilities in and around the city. County-level trends are labeled when shown.

Data Sources

All data on this page comes from official U.S. government sources. Population and economic data from the Census Bureau American Community Survey (2024 5-year estimates, place geography). Health data from the CDC PLACES program (2023). Hospital ratings from CMS Hospital Compare (2024). Climate data from NOAA. Education data from NCES. Cost of living from Bureau of Economic Analysis. Crime statistics, where referenced on Areazine, originate from the FBI Crime Data Explorer. Housing market figures referenced on Areazine come from HUD Fair Market Rents. Census economics and population are at place geography; some health and hospital indicators are reported at the county level (Erie County) where that is the smallest published unit.

Every figure on Areazine is published directly from official U.S. government sources, no number is typed in by an editor. City demographic and health figures are compiled directly from U.S. Census (place-level ACS), CDC, and CMS releases, updated quarterly within 30 days of upstream release. County-level trends are labeled when shown. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 2026.