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By AtiveSite · Published 07/11/2026 · Updated 08/11/2026 · Every figure is linked to its source below.
Among the 100 largest places in Pennsylvania, Murrysville has the highest homeownership (91.5%), followed by Franklin Park and Montgomeryville. Click any column to sort; click a city for its guide.
Across the 100 places in Pennsylvania that we cover, the median is 55.6% and the average 58.5%; the figure runs from 91.5% (Murrysville) to 26.1% (State College). That is a spread of 3.5 times between the two ends. The state figure is 69.3%; 22 of the 100 places are above it and 78 at or below.
The first five are Murrysville, Franklin Park, Montgomeryville, Mountain Top, Levittown. A high or low position is not good or bad on its own: read it together with the other measures on the city pages. Use the Compare tab on each city page to see how two places differ across income, rent, commute and education, and check the county page for the local job market.
| # ⇅ | City ⇅ | County ⇅ | Homeowners (share of households) ⇅ | Population ⇅ | Median household income ⇅ | Median rent ⇅ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Murrysville | Westmoreland County | 91.5% | 20,817 | $121,823 | $1,587 |
| 2 | Franklin Park | Allegheny County | 91.5% | 15,235 | $176,875 | $2,330 |
| 3 | Montgomeryville (unincorporated) | Montgomery County | 90.6% | 13,388 | $131,345 | $1,993 |
| 4 | Mountain Top (unincorporated) | Luzerne County | 89.3% | 11,850 | $109,535 | $849 |
| 5 | Levittown (unincorporated) | Bucks County | 87.2% | 50,926 | $105,071 | $1,556 |
| 6 | Lower Burrell | Westmoreland County | 84.5% | 11,633 | $84,602 | $911 |
| 7 | Jefferson Hills | Allegheny County | 84.3% | 12,317 | $116,064 | $1,355 |
| 8 | Roslyn (unincorporated) | Montgomery County | 83.2% | 10,639 | $99,318 | $1,306 |
| 9 | Weigelstown (unincorporated) | York County | 81.8% | 15,485 | $73,722 | $1,385 |
| 10 | Plum | Allegheny County | 80.7% | 26,723 | $98,705 | $1,177 |
| 11 | West Mifflin | Allegheny County | 79.9% | 19,190 | $76,563 | $780 |
| 12 | Broomall (unincorporated) | Delaware County | 78.8% | 10,679 | $105,625 | $1,765 |
| 13 | Baldwin | Allegheny County | 77.8% | 21,057 | $80,983 | $1,066 |
| 14 | St. Marys | Elk County | 77.6% | 12,529 | $67,167 | $762 |
| 15 | Allison Park (unincorporated) | Allegheny County | 77.2% | 22,045 | $113,822 | $1,222 |
| 16 | Bethel Park | Allegheny County | 76.4% | 32,881 | $107,090 | $1,311 |
| 17 | Whitehall | Allegheny County | 75.1% | 14,811 | $89,404 | $915 |
| 18 | East York (unincorporated) | York County | 73.6% | 9,388 | $88,021 | $1,356 |
| 19 | Hermitage | Mercer County | 70.5% | 16,041 | $70,052 | $896 |
| 20 | Northampton | Northampton County | 70.4% | 10,400 | $90,762 | $1,174 |
| 21 | Bala Cynwyd (unincorporated) | Montgomery County | 69.9% | 10,227 | $150,000 | $1,886 |
| 22 | Mechanicsburg | Cumberland County | 69.6% | 9,720 | $84,421 | $1,083 |
| 23 | Monroeville | Allegheny County | 68.7% | 28,295 | $79,218 | $1,175 |
| 24 | Shiloh (unincorporated) | York County | 68.4% | 11,246 | $94,324 | $1,530 |
| 25 | Wyomissing | Berks County | 68.3% | 11,172 | $93,203 | $1,781 |
| 26 | Woodlyn (unincorporated) | Delaware County | 67.9% | 9,736 | $79,696 | $1,196 |
| 27 | Horsham (unincorporated) | Montgomery County | 67.6% | 16,005 | $94,987 | $1,446 |
| 28 | Croydon (unincorporated) | Bucks County | 67.5% | 9,684 | $70,308 | $1,312 |
| 29 | Lansdowne | Delaware County | 67.2% | 11,122 | $73,232 | $1,304 |
| 30 | Munhall | Allegheny County | 66.7% | 10,548 | $52,517 | $780 |
| 31 | Morrisville | Bucks County | 64.9% | 9,752 | $99,526 | $1,044 |
| 32 | Willow Grove (unincorporated) | Montgomery County | 64.3% | 14,131 | $98,064 | $1,765 |
| 33 | Emmaus | Lehigh County | 64.0% | 11,889 | $83,917 | $1,389 |
| 34 | Altoona | Blair County | 63.9% | 43,196 | $51,250 | $819 |
| 35 | Lititz | Lancaster County | 63.5% | 9,619 | $88,576 | $1,364 |
| 36 | Carnot-Moon (unincorporated) | Allegheny County | 63.4% | 13,534 | $100,714 | $1,214 |
| 37 | Drexel Hill (unincorporated) | Delaware County | 63.4% | 30,451 | $88,168 | $1,357 |
| 38 | Ardmore (unincorporated) | Montgomery County | 63.0% | 13,909 | $119,111 | $1,763 |
| 39 | Oil City | Venango County | 61.3% | 9,468 | $51,316 | $821 |
| 40 | Dunmore | Lackawanna County | 61.1% | 14,181 | $71,302 | $928 |
| 41 | Bristol | Bucks County | 61.0% | 9,902 | $76,042 | $1,409 |
| 42 | Berwick | Columbia County | 60.3% | 10,317 | $49,800 | $797 |
| 43 | New Kensington | Westmoreland County | 58.5% | 12,011 | $49,063 | $751 |
| 44 | Elizabethtown | Lancaster County | 58.2% | 11,925 | $76,105 | $1,174 |
| 45 | Brentwood | Allegheny County | 58.0% | 9,866 | $68,904 | $860 |
| 46 | Progress (unincorporated) | Dauphin County | 57.4% | 11,017 | $73,030 | $1,233 |
| 47 | Pottsville | Schuylkill County | 57.1% | 13,364 | $54,332 | $822 |
| 48 | Sunbury | Northumberland County | 56.8% | 9,617 | $51,028 | $738 |
| 49 | Canonsburg | Washington County | 55.6% | 9,675 | $79,227 | $1,025 |
| 50 | Ephrata | Lancaster County | 55.6% | 13,772 | $69,735 | $1,143 |
| 51 | Nanticoke | Luzerne County | 55.5% | 10,653 | $57,462 | $792 |
| 52 | Lansdale | Montgomery County | 55.3% | 19,011 | $88,229 | $1,470 |
| 53 | Johnstown | Cambria County | 55.2% | 18,087 | $37,888 | $644 |
| 54 | Phoenixville | Chester County | 55.1% | 19,452 | $102,138 | $1,735 |
| 55 | Pottstown | Montgomery County | 55.1% | 23,476 | $60,828 | $1,260 |
| 56 | Greensburg | Westmoreland County | 55.0% | 14,741 | $64,914 | $839 |
| 57 | New Castle | Lawrence County | 54.9% | 21,579 | $42,219 | $741 |
| 58 | Erie | Erie County | 54.1% | 93,850 | $46,113 | $870 |
| 59 | Hershey (unincorporated) | Dauphin County | 53.7% | 14,242 | $78,587 | $1,268 |
| 60 | Hanover | York County | 53.4% | 16,584 | $61,293 | $1,137 |
| 61 | Sharon | Mercer County | 53.0% | 12,936 | $45,670 | $827 |
| 62 | Columbia | Lancaster County | 52.8% | 10,278 | $54,437 | $1,075 |
| 63 | Kingston | Luzerne County | 52.5% | 13,397 | $55,347 | $1,038 |
| 64 | Waynesboro | Franklin County | 52.4% | 11,047 | $66,956 | $1,086 |
| 65 | Fullerton (unincorporated) | Lehigh County | 52.0% | 16,724 | $69,317 | $1,428 |
| 66 | Philadelphia | Philadelphia County | 51.8% | 1,579,706 | $61,953 | $1,397 |
| 67 | Wilkes-Barre | Luzerne County | 51.2% | 44,423 | $48,515 | $946 |
| 68 | Hazleton | Luzerne County | 51.1% | 30,111 | $46,177 | $1,089 |
| 69 | McKeesport | Allegheny County | 50.9% | 17,380 | $34,219 | $848 |
| 70 | Bethlehem | Northampton County | 50.0% | 77,956 | $68,879 | $1,382 |
| 71 | Darby | Delaware County | 49.9% | 10,687 | $39,863 | $1,308 |
| 72 | Scranton | Lackawanna County | 49.9% | 76,033 | $50,739 | $1,048 |
| 73 | Carlisle | Cumberland County | 48.7% | 21,852 | $61,720 | $1,094 |
| 74 | Lancaster | Lancaster County | 48.6% | 57,719 | $63,690 | $1,240 |
| 75 | Pittsburgh | Allegheny County | 47.7% | 304,759 | $65,742 | $1,261 |
| 76 | Lebanon | Lebanon County | 46.8% | 26,536 | $48,456 | $992 |
| 77 | Colonial Park (unincorporated) | Dauphin County | 46.6% | 18,032 | $73,105 | $1,392 |
| 78 | Butler | Butler County | 46.1% | 13,212 | $44,247 | $818 |
| 79 | King of Prussia (unincorporated) | Montgomery County | 46.0% | 25,857 | $117,912 | $2,077 |
| 80 | Uniontown | Fayette County | 46.0% | 9,742 | $35,454 | $774 |
| 81 | Yeadon | Delaware County | 45.0% | 12,181 | $49,759 | $1,213 |
| 82 | Indiana | Indiana County | 44.7% | 14,212 | $40,857 | $849 |
| 83 | Washington | Washington County | 44.6% | 13,368 | $52,975 | $910 |
| 84 | Easton | Northampton County | 44.5% | 29,739 | $69,348 | $1,325 |
| 85 | York | York County | 43.7% | 44,938 | $48,420 | $1,014 |
| 86 | Allentown | Lehigh County | 43.2% | 125,976 | $55,494 | $1,317 |
| 87 | Williamsport | Lycoming County | 43.0% | 27,612 | $48,851 | $855 |
| 88 | Chambersburg | Franklin County | 42.7% | 22,319 | $56,576 | $1,099 |
| 89 | Norristown | Montgomery County | 42.6% | 35,893 | $66,701 | $1,422 |
| 90 | Middletown | Dauphin County | 42.5% | 9,632 | $55,765 | $1,234 |
| 91 | Willow Street (unincorporated) | Lancaster County | 40.9% | 9,647 | $109,675 | $2,672 |
| 92 | Reading | Berks County | 40.6% | 95,242 | $44,091 | $1,067 |
| 93 | Chester | Delaware County | 40.0% | 33,619 | $41,342 | $1,091 |
| 94 | Coatesville | Chester County | 40.0% | 13,353 | $59,256 | $1,471 |
| 95 | Harrisburg | Dauphin County | 36.6% | 50,287 | $48,099 | $1,062 |
| 96 | Bloomsburg | Columbia County | 35.5% | 13,024 | $51,536 | $980 |
| 97 | West Chester | Chester County | 35.4% | 20,666 | $78,385 | $1,731 |
| 98 | Meadville | Crawford County | 34.0% | 12,577 | $43,308 | $855 |
| 99 | Wilkinsburg | Allegheny County | 30.1% | 14,027 | $46,416 | $1,025 |
| 100 | State College | Centre County | 26.1% | 41,050 | $45,424 | $1,273 |
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Murrysville, with 91.5% (among the 100 largest places; ACS 2020–2024).
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