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Haverford College, Pennsylvania

Haverford College is a census-designated place in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, part of the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD metro area. It has 1,695 residents. Haverford College, Pennsylvania has a quality-of-life score of 88 out of 100 (very high), ranking #1,863 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Pennsylvania it ranks #115 of 997 cities and towns. It ranks best on rent as share of income (low), broadband subscriptions (high) and distance to an airport (low). It ranks worst on time spent in the emergency room (high), child care cost burden (high) and unemployment rate (high).

88Very high

Quality-of-life score: #1,863 of 15,651 cities and towns
Pennsylvania: #115 of 997 in PA
Population: 1,695 (2020-2024)
Land area: 0 mi²
Density: 5,574.7 /mi²
FIPS code: 4233154

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 70 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US cities and towns.

Safety55#6,957/15,637
Economy53#7,341/15,631
Housing—
Health84#2,428/15,609
Healthcare94#893/15,650
Environment44#8,644/15,453
Education77#3,650/15,649
Infrastructure100#2/15,650
Community92#1,196/15,651
Leisure & amenities59#6,378/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Haverford College, Pennsylvania ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Delaware County value” are the county’s: the source publishes no figure for this city or town, and the county holding most of its residents stands in.

Strengths

Rent as share of income · low11.3%
100/100Pennsylvania 29.2%United States 30.6%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25071
Broadband subscriptions · high100.0%
99/100Pennsylvania 89.7%United States 91.0%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B28002
Distance to an airport · low8 mi
98/100Pennsylvania 36 miUnited States 33 mi2025Federal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census BureauDelaware County value
Distance to an emergency room · low2.7 mi
97/100Pennsylvania 5.0 miUnited States 5.5 miJul 2026Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesDelaware County value
Frequent mental distress · low13.7%
96/100Pennsylvania 15.9%United States 18.6%2022University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate
Natural hazard risk · low3.3
96/100Pennsylvania 22.42025Federal Emergency Management AgencyDelaware County value

Weaknesses

Time spent in the emergency room · high248 min
3/100Pennsylvania 191 minUnited States 170 minOct 2024–Sep 2025Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesDelaware County value
Child care cost burden · high39.2%
11/100Pennsylvania 34.6%United States 27.9%2023 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteDelaware County value
Unemployment rate · high8.8%
13/100Pennsylvania 4.3%United States 4.3%2020-2024U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Census table B23025High uncertainty
Child poverty rate · high0.0%
23/100Pennsylvania 15.3%United States 15.5%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B17001
Property crime rate · high1,562 /100k
25/100Pennsylvania 1,324 /100kUnited States 1,535 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationDelaware County value
Drug overdose deaths · high21.3 /100k
27/100Pennsylvania 19.6 /100kUnited States 18.4 /100kMar 2025–Feb 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataDelaware County value

Trends

The largest changes over about five years, next to the country's over the same periods.

PopulationRising
1,239 (2015-2019) → 1,695 (2020-2024)
+37%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
High school diploma or higherWorsening
100.0% (2015-2019) → 82.9% (2020-2024)
−17 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 88.0% → 89.6%
Income inequality (Gini index)Worsening
0.260 (2015-2019) → 0.456 (2020-2024)
+75%5 yearsCensus table B19083US 0.482 → 0.483
Bachelor's degree or higherWorsening
92.0% (2015-2019) → 82.9% (2020-2024)
−9.1 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 32.1% → 35.7%
Unemployment rateWorsening
4.9% (2015-2019) → 8.8% (2020-2024)
+3.9 pts5 yearsCensus table B23025US 3.7% → 4.0%
Public transit commutersImproving
0.0% (2015-2019) → 2.6% (2020-2024)
+2.6 pts5 yearsCensus table B08301US 5.0% → 3.2%

What changed in five years

How each measure moved between two periods about five years apart, read against whether more or less is better, the published margin of error and the same change in other places.

Over about five years, Haverford College, Pennsylvania improved on 0 of 8 measures with a comparison and declined on 1. 7 moved within the margin of error and 0 barely changed.

Earlier (2015-2019)
Latest (2020-2024)
Lower standingHigher standing

Position is the place's standing among cities and towns: further right is better, whichever way the measure counts.

Improved0

No measure improved by more than its margin of error.

Declined1

Rent / income+2.3 points9.0% → 11.3%

All 8 measures

Change of every measure of Haverford College, Pennsylvania between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	12.9 min2015-2019	13.1 min2020-2024	+0.2 min	Within the margin of error	44%
Broadband subscriptions	100.0%2015-2019	100.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	8%
Child poverty rate	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	42%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.2602015-2019	0.4562020-2024	+0.196	Within the margin of error	1%
Median household income	$173,2352015-2019	$182,5002020-2024	+5.3%	Within the margin of error	12%
Poverty rate	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	44%
Rent as share of income	9.0%2015-2019	11.3%2020-2024	+2.3 points	Declined	37%
Rent-burdened households	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	56%

“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 14640 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.

Sources: American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates. Values are the latest and the one five years earlier of the same publisher dataset; datasets that changed publisher in between are never compared.

Survey estimates (American Community Survey) compare the two most recent 5-year windows that do not share years, so the margin of error of the difference holds. The 2015-2019 window predates the pandemic and 2020-2024 includes it.
A change counts only when it is larger than 1.645 times the square root of the two standard errors squared, summed (a 90% margin). Measures published without a margin must change by at least 5% to count.
“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 15651 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.
Standing is a percentile among the same places: 0 is the lowest value on the measure (or the worst when lower is better), 100 the best.

Cities and towns like Haverford College, Pennsylvania five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Haverford College, Pennsylvania in the earlier period, ranked by how many measures improved beyond the margin of error, minus how many declined. A comparison of published data, not a forecast and not advice.

For comparison, Haverford College, Pennsylvania itself moved −12.7 points in standing on average over the same 6 measures (standings of all places average about zero).

How the ranking works

Similarity is the root-mean-square difference of standings in the earlier period over the measures most places have. Places are ranked by measures that improved beyond the margin of error minus those that declined (a count that estimation noise in small places cannot inflate), then by the mean change of standing over the measures a place has in both periods. Only places with more improvements than declines and a rise in standing are listed. Standings are relative, so a place can improve in absolute terms and still lose standing.

Who lives here

Age, race and education of residents, from the American Community Survey. Shares are of all residents (age), residents of every origin (race) or adults 25 and over (education).

Age and sex

1,695 residents (±171)

Men
Women

80 and over†
70–79†
60–69†
50–59†
40–49†
30–39†
20–29
10–19†
Under 10†

Share of all residents, each sex

No change since 2015–2019 is larger than the margin of error.

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B01001View table on data.census.gov

Race and Hispanic origin

1,695 residents (±171)

Haverford College, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania share

White56%948
Black13%†222
Hispanic or Latino14%†243

Education

146 residents (±107)

Haverford College, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania share

No high school diploma17%†25
High school or GED0.0%0
Some college0.0%0

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Income

How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.

Household income

74 households (±55)

Haverford College, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania share

Under $25k0.0%0
$25k–50k0.0%0
$50k–75k0.0%0
$75k–100k0.0%0
$100k–150k30%†22
$150k–200k31%†23
$200k or more39%†29

No change since 2015–2019 is larger than the margin of error.

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B19001View table on data.census.gov

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Homes

Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.

Owners and renters

74 households (±55)

Haverford College, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania share

Own9.5%†7
Rent91%†67

No change since 2015–2019 is larger than the margin of error.

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B25003View table on data.census.gov

Rent paid

67 households (±58)

Haverford College, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania share

Under $7500.0%0
$750–1,00018%†12
$1,000–1,50055%†37

Home values

7 homes (±12)

Haverford College, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania share

Under $150k0.0%0
$150k–250k0.0%0
$250k–400k0.0%0
$400k–750k

Age of homes

74 homes (±55)

Haverford College, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania share

2010 or later0.0%0
2000–20090.0%0
1980–19990.0%0

Size of homes

74 homes (±55)

Haverford College, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania share

Studio0.0%0
1 bedroom0.0%0
2 bedrooms16%†12

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Getting to work

How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.

How people get to work

664 workers (±129)

Haverford College, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania share

Drive alone22%†145
Carpool2.9%†19
Public transit2.6%†17
Walk51%†340
Bike0.0%0
Work from home20%†132
Other1.7%†11

No change since 2015–2019 is larger than the margin of error.

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B08301View table on data.census.gov

Time to get to work

532 workers (±120)

Haverford College, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania share

Under 15 min67%†354
15–29 min26%†140
30–44 min3.8%†

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Jobs and pay

What the largest occupations here pay, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes pay by metro area, not by county or city. The metro area page lists its largest occupations and lets you look up any job.

Pay in the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD

Local businesses

Employer businesses and sole proprietors by industry, per resident and against the state and the nation. Counts of businesses next to counts of people, not a measure of demand.

The Census Bureau publishes business counts by county, not by city, so these are the figures of Delaware County, the county holding most of Haverford College's residents.

Delaware County has 13,165 employer establishments, 227 for every 10,000 residents (0.92× the US rate of 248; 0.96× Pennsylvania's), with 237,233 paid employees at an average annual pay of $65,310. The Census Bureau also counts 50,531 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 13,165; 50,531 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 227; US 248 · Pennsylvania 236
Paid employees: 237,233
Average annual pay: $65,310; US $68,342

Employer establishments, employees, average pay and nonemployers of Delaware County by industry, with the density per resident against the nation

Ambulatory health care services	1,139	19.7	0.94×About typical	17,460	$69,306	3,697
Specialty trade contractors	944	16.3	1.05×About typical	9,123	$78,117	2,656
Restaurants and other eating places	932	16.1	0.88×About typical	15,951	$21,419	272
Lessors of real estate	470	8.1	0.66×Fewer than typical	2,534	$91,606	5,378
Construction of buildings	463	8	1.06×About typical	2,451	$78,490	1,076
Limited-service restaurants	461	8	0.99×About typical	6,459	$19,053	146
Services to buildings and dwellings	452	7.8	1.16×About typical	6,386	$41,186	2,068
Building equipment contractors	444	7.7	1.27×More than typical	4,322	$88,910	583
Personal care services	400	6.9	1.45×More than typical	2,667	$27,019	1,732
Management, scientific and technical consulting	356	6.1	0.92×About typical	2,293	$98,232	2,359
Full-service restaurants	347	6	0.78×Fewer than typical	7,955	$23,965	88
Automotive repair and maintenance	340	5.9	1.17×About typical	1,745	$51,966	324

Rank places for an industry Open Delaware County

County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024)

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 579,086 residents here, 336,755,052 in the United States. County Business Patterns counts establishments in 2023; the Nonemployer Statistics count businesses in 2024.
“More than typical” is a density at least 1.25 times the nation's per resident, “fewer” at most 0.8 times, with at least 10 establishments. It compares counts of businesses with counts of people: it says nothing about demand, incomes, size, quality or profit, and visitors and commuters are not residents.
The Census Bureau adds noise to employment and payroll to protect confidentiality, and withholds some figures: an industry with few establishments can show employees or pay as unavailable.
Industries overlap: a narrower industry (full-service restaurants) is part of a broader one (restaurants), so the rows do not add up.
Industries follow the North American Industry Classification System; the two surveys use different editions (NAICS 2017 and 2022), which this page matches industry by industry.

Federal contracts performed here

In FY2026, an estimated -$1,069 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Haverford College, Pennsylvania: -$0.63 per resident (US $2,007).

Obligations: -$1,069; −110% vs FY2025
Per resident: -$0.63; US $2,007
Sole-source: —; US 30%
Single offer: —; US 8.7%

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Top buying agencies

Top recipients

ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS ANALYSIS, INC.$00.0%
BIMBO BAKERIES USA, INC.-$1,0690.0%

Spending by fiscal year

0FY2017
1.1KFY2021
101.9FY2022
30.2KFY2024
10.3KFY2025
-1.1KFY2026

What was bought

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026.

How this is estimated

Agencies report each contract action's place of performance as a county and a ZIP code. A ZIP code's money is split among the cities it covers by the share of its land inside each (Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation areas); the part outside city limits stays with the county.

The place of performance is what the contracting agency reports, often the contractor's office rather than where the work happens.
Shares are of land, not of people or businesses: a ZIP code that is mostly rural land but has its offices in town gives the town less than it should.
ZIP codes that are not mapped areas (post office boxes, the unique ZIP codes of large federal sites and companies) stay with their county, unless one city covers nearly all of it.
Counts of actions and awards include those only partly in Haverford College, Pennsylvania, so they do not add up across cities.

Haverford College, Pennsylvania's figures are part of those of Delaware County, PA and Montgomery County, PA ($8.7B in FY2026), never added to them: 0.0% of that total.

Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: Haverford College is mostly in Delaware County.

See federal money in Delaware County

Representation in Congress

Members serving today, with their record in the current Congress (party-unity votes cast with their caucus, roll calls missed). Not a grade.

Haverford College, Pennsylvania is split between congressional districts: each representative is shown with the share of its residents in their district (current boundaries).