Borough · Bucks County, Pennsylvania

Silverdale, Pennsylvania

Silverdale is a borough in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, part of the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD metro area. It has 1,288 residents. Silverdale, Pennsylvania has a quality-of-life score of 84 out of 100 (very high), ranking #2,504 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Pennsylvania it ranks #162 of 997 cities and towns. It ranks best on poverty rate (low), flu vaccinations (high) and voter turnout (high). It ranks worst on public libraries (low), time spent in the emergency room (high) and child care cost burden (high).

84Very high

Quality-of-life score: #2,504 of 15,651 cities and towns
Pennsylvania: #162 of 997 in PA
Population: 1,288 (2020-2024)
Land area: 0 mi²
Density: 3,115.4 /mi²
FIPS code: 4270744

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 73 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.

Safety92#1,244/15,637
Economy86#2,251/15,631
Housing48#7,840/14,977
Health85#2,334/15,609
Healthcare93#1,072/15,650
Environment38#9,506/15,453
Education87#2,085/15,649
Infrastructure29#11,051/15,650
Community80#3,041/15,651
Leisure & amenities64#5,627/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Silverdale, Pennsylvania ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Bucks 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

Poverty rate · low0.9%
99/100Pennsylvania 11.6%United States 12.1%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B17001High uncertainty
Flu vaccinations · high57.0%
97/100Pennsylvania 52.0%United States 44.0%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteBucks County value
Voter turnout · high81.0%
97/100Pennsylvania 71.0%United States 65.2%2024U.S. Election Assistance CommissionBucks County value
New homes permitted · high21.0 /1k
96/100Pennsylvania 2.0 /1kUnited States 4.2 /1kSep 2025–Aug 2026U.S. Census BureauProvisional data
Violent crime rate · low71 /100k
93/100Pennsylvania 227 /100kUnited States 328 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationBucks County value
Income inequality (Gini index) · low0.321
93/100Pennsylvania 0.474United States 0.4832020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B19083

Weaknesses

Public libraries · low0.3 /10k
15/100Pennsylvania 0.5 /10kUnited States 0.5 /10k2024Institute of Museum and Library ServicesBucks County value
Time spent in the emergency room · high213 min
16/100Pennsylvania 191 minUnited States 170 minOct 2024–Sep 2025Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesBucks County value
Child care cost burden · high36.1%
19/100Pennsylvania 34.6%United States 27.9%2023 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteBucks County value
Public transit commuters · low0.0%
27/100Pennsylvania 3.6%United States 3.2%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B08301
High ozone days · high2 days
28/100Pennsylvania 1 daysUnited States 7 days2022Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyBucks County value
Rent as share of income · high35.7%
30/100Pennsylvania 29.2%United States 30.6%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25071

Trends

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

PopulationRising
659 (2015-2019) → 1,288 (2020-2024)
+95%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
14.6% (2015-2019) → 71.4% (2020-2024)
+57 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Rent as share of incomeWorsening
18.8% (2015-2019) → 35.7% (2020-2024)
+17 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%
Bachelor's degree or higherWorsening
33.2% (2015-2019) → 28.1% (2020-2024)
−5.1 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 32.1% → 35.7%
Median household incomeImproving
$85,729 (2015-2019) → $107,321 (2020-2024)
+25%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604
Average commute timeImproving
29.8 min (2015-2019) → 23.4 min (2020-2024)
−22%5 yearsCensus table B08013US 26.9 min → 26.4 min

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, Silverdale, Pennsylvania improved on 0 of 9 measures with a comparison and declined on 1. 8 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+17 points18.8% → 35.7%

All 9 measures

Change of every measure of Silverdale, Pennsylvania between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	29.8 min2015-2019	23.4 min2020-2024	−6.4 min	Within the margin of error	94%
Bachelor's degree or higher	33.2%2015-2019	28.1%2020-2024	−5.1 points	Within the margin of error	7%
Broadband subscriptions	92.9%2015-2019	89.3%2020-2024	−3.6 points	Within the margin of error	3%
Effective property tax rate	1.41%2015-2019	1.24%2020-2024	−0.2 points	Within the margin of error	51%
High school diploma or higher	96.2%2015-2019	98.8%2020-2024	+2.6 points	Within the margin of error	65%
Home price to income ratio	3.3×2015-2019	3.4×2020-2024	+0.0×	Within the margin of error	78%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.3582015-2019	0.3212020-2024	−0.036	Within the margin of error	78%
Median household income	$85,7292015-2019	$107,3212020-2024	+25%	Within the margin of error	44%
Rent as share of income	18.8%2015-2019	35.7%2020-2024	+17 points	Declined	3%

“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 Silverdale, Pennsylvania five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Silverdale, 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, Silverdale, Pennsylvania itself moved −8.8 points in standing on average over the same 9 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

1,288 residents (±442)

Men
Women

80 and over†
70–79†
60–69†

Income

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

Household income

441 households (±117)

Silverdale, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania share

Under $25k3.6%†16
$25k–50k12%†55
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

441 households (±117)

Silverdale, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania share

Own88%389
Rent12%†52

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.

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Getting to work

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

How people get to work

686 workers (±236)

Silverdale, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania share

Drive alone82%†565
Carpool4.5%†31
Public transit

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 Bucks County, the county holding most of Silverdale's residents.

Bucks County has 20,043 employer establishments, 309 for every 10,000 residents (1.25× the US rate of 248; 1.31× Pennsylvania's), with 263,278 paid employees at an average annual pay of $58,314. The Census Bureau also counts 61,723 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 20,043; 61,723 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 309; US 248 · Pennsylvania 236
Paid employees: 263,278
Average annual pay: $58,314; US $68,342

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

Specialty trade contractors	1,681	26	1.68×More than typical	13,678	$83,494	4,411
Ambulatory health care services	1,549	23.9	1.15×About typical	20,636	$62,641	3,435
Restaurants and other eating places	1,243	19.2	1.04×About typical	20,516	$21,409	204
Construction of buildings	858	13.2	1.75×More than typical	3,128	$67,713	1,999
Services to buildings and dwellings	816	12.6	1.87×More than typical	6,135	$45,046	2,402
Lessors of real estate	699	10.8	0.88×About typical	2,294	$56,066	7,370
Building equipment contractors	697	10.8	1.79×More than typical	6,434	$86,341	877
Truck transportation	628	9.7	1.92×More than typical	2,860	$58,659	2,678
Management, scientific and technical consulting	597	9.2	1.37×More than typical	5,132	$117,859	3,118
Personal care services	585	9	1.89×More than typical	3,543	$25,190	1,284
Limited-service restaurants	541	8.4	1.04×About typical	7,351	$19,398	76
Landscaping services	511	7.9	2.25×More than typical	3,186	$53,005	799

Rank places for an industry Open Bucks County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 647,751 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 $0 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Silverdale, Pennsylvania: $0 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $0
Per resident: $0; US $1,994
Sole-source: —; US 30%
Single offer: —; US 8.8%

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

Spending by fiscal year

16.5KFY2018
5.8KFY2019
0FY2024

What was bought

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 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 Silverdale, Pennsylvania, so they do not add up across cities.

Silverdale, Pennsylvania's figures are part of those of Bucks County, PA ($443.4M 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: Silverdale is mostly in Bucks County.

See federal money in Bucks 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.

Silverdale, Pennsylvania is represented in the 119th Congress by these members.

House

Brian K. FitzpatrickR-PA-1 · 100% of residentsWith party 77%Missed 0.9%

Senate

Explore Congress The 2026 races

County

A city can lie in several counties. Some indicators are published for counties only: the page marks them.

Bucks County90100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD73

Other cities and towns in Bucks County

Largest first.

Similar cities and towns

Closest indicator profiles across the country (no model: score distances).

Data and sources

Latest published value of each indicator; periods differ by source. Values flagged by their publisher are marked.

PLACES: Local Data for Better HealthCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · release 2025
Local Area Unemployment StatisticsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · release 2025
American Community Survey 5-Year EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2017-2024
Building Permits SurveyU.S. Census Bureau · release 2026-08
Population Estimates ProgramU.S. Census Bureau · release 2025
Small Area Health Insurance EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
Small Area Income and Poverty EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
County Health Rankings & RoadmapsUniversity of Wisconsin Population Health Institute · release 2022-2025+2026-03-supplement

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