Pennsylvania per capita income, 2010 to 2023
Pennsylvania per capita income stood at $42,605 in 2023, up 2.7% on the previous period.
Pennsylvania's per-capita income was $42,605 in 2023, up 2.7 percent from $41,489 the year before. The window starts in 2010 at $26,374.
How it is measured
The figure is total income received by everyone in the state divided by every resident, including children and people with no income. It is a mean, not a median, so high earners pull it up. It comes from the Census Bureau's American Community Survey one-year estimates, the country's largest household survey, which samples about 3.5 million addresses a year. Like any survey, ACS estimates carry margins of error; at the state level they are small but real, and the 2020 pandemic disrupted collection badly enough that the Bureau flagged that year's standard estimates.
What the curve shows
Per-capita income and median household income answer different questions: this one measures the income the economy generates per person; the median measures what the typical household lives on. Comparing states, or one state against its own past, is what this series is for; over the window shown the figure rose roughly 62 percent.
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