Think you’re middle class in Pennsylvania? Your zip code might tell a different story.

A new analysis from financial technology company SmartAsset put hard numbers on a question many residents wonder about. For those living in Bucks County, the findings reveal a community that skews well above the state’s financial midpoint, writes Chris Ullery for Bucks County Courier Times.

Using 2024 U.S. Census Bureau data and a version of the Pew Research Center’s methodology, which defines middle income as roughly two-thirds to twice the median household income, SmartAsset calculated Pennsylvania’s middle-class range at approximately $51,697 to $155,090, anchored by a statewide median of $77,545.

Bucks County lands above that midpoint, with a median household income of roughly $114,764. The number puts the county second in the state behind Chester County and just ahead of neighboring Montgomery County.

Over half of Bucks County households reside within the county’s middle-class bracket. Nine of the county’s 54 municipalities don’t just clear the middle-class ceiling; they blow past it.

Leading the pack is Upper Makefield Township, where the median household income clocks in at $212,768, a full $57,678 above the state’s upper middle-class threshold.

Solebury, Buckingham, Wrightstown, Lower Makefield, New Hope, Newtown, Northampton, and Warwick round out the list of communities whose median incomes exceed what SmartAsset considers the top of the middle class in Pennsylvania.

At the other end of the county’s income spectrum, Bedminster marks the ceiling of the middle class, with a median of $152,049.

Perhaps most striking: not a single Bucks County municipality fell below the lower middle-class threshold, a distinction that sets the county apart from much of the state.

Learn more about the recent report on Bucks County’s standing within Pennsylvania’s middle class bracket in Bucks County Courier Times.

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