Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania: the places inside it, the companies based here, and where this atlas has research on it.
state · population 13,000,000 (registry) · North America · page prepared 2026-11-07
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Pennsylvania at a glance
Rolled up from the 27 regions inside Pennsylvania on this site, with census figures from Statistics Canada.
Population12,986,518
census
Places inside26
21 with a full /local page
Businesses on file143,572
business register, all places inside
Companies headquartered217
in the company directory
Who represents them7
places with a /politics page
Property & employers7 · 0
/property and /employers records
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Who leads Pennsylvania, and how households are doing
Researched 2026-11-08 from official statistics; every figure links to its source.
Leadership
Economy & households
- Population
- 13,059,432 persons (Census Bureau annual estimate, FRED PAPOP, published in thousands: 13,059.432) (2025) ↗
- GDP
- 1,056,488.2 USD millions, current dollars (BEA nominal GDP, FRED PANGSP) (2025) ↗
- Unemployment
- 3.6 % seasonally adjusted (BLS LAUS, FRED PAUR) (2026-09) ↗
- Median household income
- 85,880 USD, current dollars (Census CPS ASEC, FRED MEHOINUSPAA646N) (2025) ↗
- Home ownership
- 70.1 % (Census CPS/HVS, FRED PAHOWN) (2025) ↗
- Personal income per person
- 75,370 USD (BEA per capita personal income, FRED PAPCPI) (2025) ↗
- Debt per person with a credit report
- 50,400 USD owed by the average person with a credit score (USAFacts, from NY Fed Center for Microeconomic Data; page shows "$50.4K") (2025) ↗
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Home prices in the biggest cities
As each source measures them (benchmark, median or average sale price); not directly comparable across measures.
| City / metro | Price | Measure | As of |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington MSA ↗ | 375,000 USD | median listing price (Realtor.com via FRED) | 2026-10 |
| Pittsburgh MSA ↗ | 242,750 USD | median listing price (Realtor.com via FRED) | 2026-10 |
| Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton MSA ↗ | 405,000 USD | median listing price (Realtor.com via FRED) | 2026-10 |
| Harrisburg-Carlisle MSA ↗ | 326,718 USD | median listing price (Realtor.com via FRED) | 2026-10 |
| Scranton-Wilkes-Barre MSA ↗ | 269,000 USD | median listing price (Realtor.com via FRED) | 2026-10 |
| Lancaster MSA ↗ | 399,900 USD | median listing price (Realtor.com via FRED) | 2026-10 |
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Languages
Official-language and home-language figures as the census reports them.
| Language | Share | Measure | As of |
|---|---|---|---|
| Language other than English (persons 5+) ↗ | 1,630,000 people | speak a language other than English at home (ACS 1-year; page says "about one in 8 Pennsylvanians") | 2024 |
| Spanish ↗ | 45.5% | % of people speaking a non-English language at home (ACS) | 2024 |
| English ↗ | 90.15% | most often at home (2010 MLA/ACS, Wikipedia infobox — dated) | 2010 |
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Largest companies in Pennsylvania
Ranked by the measure shown, from the cited ranking or filing.
| Company | Measure | Value | As of |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cencora (Conshohocken) ↗ | revenue | 321 USD billions (Fortune 500 2026, No. 10) | 2025 |
| Comcast (Philadelphia) ↗ | revenue | 124 USD billions (Fortune 500 2026, No. 37) | 2025 |
| PNC Financial Services Group (Pittsburgh) ↗ | revenue | 34 USD billions (Fortune 500 2026, No. 136) | 2025 |
| Aramark (Philadelphia) ↗ | revenue | 19 USD billions (Fortune 500 2026, No. 235) | 2025 |
| Lincoln National (Radnor) ↗ | revenue | 18 USD billions (Fortune 500 2026, No. 243) | 2025 |
| Universal Health Services (King of Prussia) ↗ | revenue | 17 USD billions (Fortune 500 2026, No. 255) | 2025 |
| Dick's Sporting Goods (outside Pittsburgh) ↗ | revenue | 17.2 USD billions (Fortune 500 2026, No. 258) | 2025 |
| Toll Brothers (Fort Washington) ↗ | revenue | 11 USD billions (Fortune 500 2026, No. 399) | 2025 |
| QVC Group (West Chester) ↗ | revenue | 9 USD billions (Fortune 500 2026, No. 433; Chapter 11 filed April 2026) | 2025 |
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Worth knowing
- 2026-11Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) won a second term on Nov 3, 2026, defeating Republican state treasurer Stacy Garrity about 60.4% to 38.3% (3,002,608 to 1,906,260 votes, with 99% reporting; unofficial). ↗
- 2023-01Lt. Gov. Austin Davis is the first Black Lieutenant Governor in Commonwealth history and was described by the state as the youngest lieutenant governor in the country. ↗
- 2026-06Conshohocken-based Cencora ranked No. 10 on the 2026 Fortune 500 with $321 billion in revenue, the highest-ranked company headquartered in Pennsylvania. ↗
- 2026-09Pennsylvania's unemployment rate fell to 3.6% (seasonally adjusted) in September 2026, down from 3.9% in July. ↗
- 2024About 1.63 million Pennsylvanians age 5+ (about one in 8) spoke a language other than English at home in 2024; after Spanish, the most common were Chinese and Yiddish/Pennsylvania Dutch/other West Germanic languages. ↗
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Census
US Census Bureau American Community Survey.
Median household income$76,081
Median rent$1,162/mo
Immigrants7.4%
Renters30.7%
Aged 65+19.1%
Unemployment5.2%
Low income11.8%
Speak a language other than English11.4%
Languages spoken at home (other than English)
- Spanish664,669 · 5.1%
- Other Indo-European languages198,115 · 1.5%
- German or other West Germanic languages109,801 · 0.8%
- Chinese (incl. Mandarin, Cantonese)96,237 · 0.7%
- Russian, Polish, or other Slavic languages90,999 · 0.7%
- Other Asian and Pacific Island languages85,650 · 0.7%
- Other and unspecified languages59,619 · 0.5%
- French, Haitian, or Cajun55,253 · 0.4%
- Arabic42,882 · 0.3%
- Vietnamese34,536 · 0.3%
- Korean26,460 · 0.2%
- Tagalog (incl. Filipino)17,852 · 0.1%
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Largest places in Pennsylvania
By registry population; places with a full /local page are marked.
- 1.Philadelphia, Pennsylvania full1,600,000
- 2.Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania full302,971
- 3.Allentown, Pennsylvania full125,845
- 4.Reading, Pennsylvania full95,112
- 5.Erie, Pennsylvania full94,831
- 6.Scranton, Pennsylvania full76,328
- 7.Bethlehem, Pennsylvania full75,781
- 8.Lancaster, Pennsylvania full58,039
- 9.Harrisburg, Pennsylvania full50,099
- 10.Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania full44,523
- 11.Altoona, Pennsylvania full43,963
- 12.State College, Pennsylvania full40,501
- 13.Williamsport-Lycoming, Pennsylvania full27,629
- 14.King of Prussia, PA24,695
- 15.New Castle, Pennsylvania full21,926
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Inside Pennsylvania
27 regions have Pennsylvania as their parent.
- Allentown, Pennsylvania
- Altoona, Pennsylvania
- Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
- Carlisle, PA
- Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania
- Erie, Pennsylvania
- Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
- Greensburg, Pennsylvania
- Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
- Hershey, PA
- Johnstown, Pennsylvania town
- King of Prussia, PA
- Lancaster, Pennsylvania
- Latrobe-Youngstown, Pennsylvania
- Lewisburg, PA
- New Castle, Pennsylvania
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Poconos Mountains, PA
- Reading, Pennsylvania
- Scranton, Pennsylvania
- Sharon-Hermitage, Pennsylvania
- State College, Pennsylvania
- Washington, Pennsylvania
- Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
- Williamsport-Lycoming, Pennsylvania
- York, PA region
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Companies based in Pennsylvania
2 in the Research Upon company directory list their headquarters here, and 217 across Pennsylvania and the places inside it — search them all below.
| Company | Industry | Founded |
|---|---|---|
| Eightco | Fintech | 1966 |
| Pennsylvania Warehousing | 1872 |
areaAbout this page: figures for the whole of Pennsylvania are rolled up from every region inside it; each place inside has a page of its own, and the companies headquartered here are listed above.