Penn State Erie (Behrend) is a city of 1,607 people in Pennsylvania. The median age is 20.1, younger than the US median of 38.9. This is an unusually credentialed place: 77% of adults have a four-year degree. 55% were living in the same home a year earlier. Getting to work takes 17 minutes on average. There are 2,055 people per square mile.
Shares are "alone or in combination": a person with both Medicare and Medicaid counts in each, so categories overlap and do not sum to 100%.
Section 09 · Service history
Veterans
Over time
Penn State Erie (Behrend), decade by decade
Penn State Erie (Behrend) population, inflation-adjusted income and home value, education, and diversity by year
Year
Population
Median household income
Median home value
Bachelor's degree+
Diversity score
2010
1,629
–
–
12.5%
25.1
2020
1,486
–
–
100.0%
43.3
2024
1,607
–
–
77.1%
48.8
Census years come from the decennial census and the latest year from the American Community Survey, so part of any change between those two rows can reflect the different surveys. Dollar figures are adjusted for inflation to 2024 dollars; a figure ending in "+" was at the Census Bureau's reporting cap that year. The diversity score runs from 0 to 100; see how it's calculated.
