Northeast · Pennsylvania · pop 1.6M
Philadelphia, PA
Fair match
at the reference profile: one person earning $6,700/mo gross, default weights.
Personalize this score →After estimated taxes in PA, your $6,700/mo income nets about $5,207 — covering estimated essentials here (about $1,233 rent plus everyday costs incl. local sales tax) with roughly $1,520 left over.
Expect summer highs near 87°F, winter lows around 26°F, and about 207 sunny days a year.
There's plenty to do — roughly 32 restaurants, arts, and recreation spots per 10k residents.
Tradeoff: the local job market is softer than most on this list (4.3% unemployment).
The Philadelphia fit print
Est. monthly cost
$3,687/mo
Typical rent
$1,450/mo
Home value ÷ income
3.9×
Score breakdown
The data behind the score
Money (Census ACS · HUD)
- Median gross rent
- $1,200/mo
- HUD fair market rent (2BR)
- $1,450/mo
- Median home value
- $220,000
- Median household income
- $57,000
- Population
- 1,550,000
Work (BLS)
- Unemployment rate
- 4.3%
- Job growth (1yr)
- 0.8%
Safety (FBI CDE, per 100k)
- Violent crime rate
- 940
- Property crime rate
- 3,400
Climate (NOAA normals)
- Avg. summer high
- 87°F
- Avg. winter low
- 26°F
- Sunny days / year
- 207
- Days ≥100°F by 2050 (air temp)
- ≈8/yr
- Dangerous humid days by 2050 (feels-like)
- ≈52/yr
- Unhealthy air days
- ≈11/yr
- Annual rain
- 44"
- Annual snow
- 22"
Community & access (approx.)
- 2024 county margin
- D+58
- Int'l airport
- ≈8 mi
- Walkability
- 75/100
- Disaster risk
- 36/100
Data vintage: sample-approx-2024. Sources & methodology — this deployment is running the bundled sample dataset; figures are approximate.
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