Langhorne Borough is a compact historic borough near Sesame Place and the Route 1 corridor, with Neshaminy schools and quick access to I-95 and regional employment centers.
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Municipality identity
What we know about Langhorne Borough.
Langhorne Borough is a compact historic borough near Sesame Place and the Route 1 corridor, with Neshaminy schools and quick access to I-95 and regional employment centers. Identity facts below are labeled so you know what is curated reference data versus what still needs official verification.
Municipality type Borough official
County Bucks County, PA official
Housing corridor Lower Bucks curated
Primary ZIP 19047 curated
Population 1,622 curated
Land area 0.8 sq mi curated
Established 1877 curated
Reference coordinates 40.1775, -74.9189 curated
Housing corridor
Lower Bucks
Corridor grouping is curated for housing comparison — not a municipal boundary.
Primary ZIP
19047
ZIP codes do not determine school district assignment in Bucks County.
Population
1,622
Municipal reference data — confirm with U.S. Census for official counts.
Land area
0.8 sq mi
Municipal reference data.
Established
1877
Historical incorporation reference — verify with municipal records if material to your decision.
Reference coordinates
40.1775, -74.9189
Centroid-style reference point for GIS orientation — not a property boundary.
Market snapshot
Langhorne Borough by the numbers.
Census-cited figures for Langhorne Borough from the American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (2020–2024).
These are survey estimates with margins of error — context for a decision, not a current listing price.
Curated municipality-to-district mapping — still verify at the property address; some townships span district boundaries.
Neshaminy School District schools — the district roster from the
federal NCES directory. Assignment within the district is set by the exact address, not the town.
Three bills. Three offices. County-published millage.
Bucks County property owners receive separate county, municipal, and school district tax bills. The rates below
are transcribed from the county's official millage sheet and apply to a property's county assessed value —
a fraction of market value — not its sale price.
County millage (2026)29.65 mills
official
Langhorne Borough millage (2026)18.19625 mills
official
Neshaminy SD millage (2025–2026)190.2137 mills official
Combined total238.05995 mills
County (29.65 mills)
Langhorne Borough (18.19625 mills)
Neshaminy SD (190.2137 mills)
Estimated annual total
Estimate only: assessed value × mills ÷ 1,000 per layer, before the homestead exclusion or
any interim adjustments. The county bill is what the offices say it is, not what a website computes.
The county's strongest commuter access — I-95, Route 1, and SEPTA rail — paired with entry-point pricing and established neighborhoods.
Buyer framing (curated): I-95 and SEPTA corridors reward commuters. Bensalem, Falls, Newtown, and Yardley each carry different tax and school profiles — entry value with real tradeoffs.
Assessment, deed, parcel, and municipal contact checks belong in every serious housing decision. These links route to official or curated public-source hubs — not secondary aggregators.
Production housing intelligence means honest gaps — not filler. These items still need official source input or licensed data before they can be published as facts.
Decision signals
What matters before you act in Langhorne Borough.
01
official
Tax layers
County + municipal + school
Every Bucks County property has three separate tax bills. Millage rates are not published on this profile — verify with the Board of Assessment and municipal tax office.
02
curated
School district
Neshaminy SD
Curated municipality mapping. District assignment is still address-level — verify before you act.
03
curated
Market corridor
Lower Bucks
The county's strongest commuter access — I-95, Route 1, and SEPTA rail — paired with entry-point pricing and established neighborhoods.
04
curated
Municipality overview
Curated
Overview drawn from curated municipal reference data — not a market valuation.
County context
How Langhorne Borough compares to the rest of Bucks County.
At $446,500, the median home in Langhorne Borough sits within a couple of points of the $445,250 county
median — 26th highest of the 54 municipalities with
a published figure.
Median household income sits 10.9% below the county at $101,131. At 57.6% owner-occupied, Langhorne Borough carries an unusually large rental base for Bucks County — relevant if you are buying to live rather than to hold.
The mean one-way commute is 23 min against a county median
of 28.9 min.
Measure
Langhorne Borough
County median
Rank
Median home value
$446,500
$445,250
26th of 54 +0.3%
Median household income
$101,131
$113,475
35th of 54 -10.9%
Median gross rent
$1,441
$1,575
34th of 52 -8.5%
Owner-occupied share
57.6%
80.7%
49th of 54 -28.6%
Mean commute
23 min
28.9 min
52nd of 54 -20.4%
Median age
43.5
44.1
31st of 54 -1.2%
Population density
2,028 / sq mi
—
0.8 sq mi total
Ranks and county medians are computed across all Bucks County municipalities reporting each measure in the
American Community Survey 2020–2024 5-year estimates. Rank 1 is the highest value, not the "best" —
a high median home value and a long commute are both rank 1 at the top of their columns.
Similar towns
If Langhorne Borough fits, look at these next.
Closest matches on home value, income, rent, owner-occupancy and commute — the towns a buyer weighing Langhorne Borough usually ends up comparing it against.
The Langhorne Regional Rail stop sits at the borough's doorstep — a walk-or-short-drive commute to Center City.
Landmark
Historic Langhorne core
Maple Avenue's historic district — one of Lower Bucks' oldest crossroads towns, still walkable end to end.
Langhorne Borough is the walkable historic core that the surrounding township sprawl grew
around: a compact grid of 18th- and 19th-century housing stock, a genuine main street on
Maple Avenue, and the Langhorne West Trenton Line station close enough that rail commuting
is a lifestyle rather than a logistics problem.
The trade-off is supply — the borough is barely a square half-mile, listings are scarce, and
historic-district stock means historic-district maintenance. Buyers who lose out here usually
end up comparing Penndel next door or Newtown Borough upmarket; if the walk-to-train,
walk-to-coffee pattern is the point, this is Lower Bucks’ most affordable version of it.
A Langhorne Borough address is presumed to sit in Neshaminy SD, but boundaries split streets — confirm the assignment for the exact parcel. Assessment matters more than the $446,500 median suggests: Bucks County assesses at a fraction of market value, so two similar Langhorne Borough homes can carry very different bills.
Langhorne Borough is served by Neshaminy SD. School assignment in Bucks County is address-level — some townships span attendance boundaries — so always confirm the assigned school for a specific property with the district before making an offer.
What is the median home value in Langhorne Borough?
The median value of owner-occupied homes in Langhorne Borough is about $447K, per the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (2020–2024, table B25077). ACS figures are survey estimates with a margin of error, not current listing prices — use them for context, not pricing.
Who lives in Langhorne Borough?
Langhorne Borough has a median household income of about $101K, a median age of 43.5, 57.6% owner-occupied households, per ACS 5-Year Estimates (2020–2024). See the market snapshot on this page for the full census-cited profile.
What are property taxes like in Langhorne Borough?
Langhorne Borough property owners pay three separate bills totaling 238.05995 mills on the county assessed value (2026 county sheet): county 29.65 mills, Langhorne Borough 18.19625 mills, and Neshaminy SD 190.2137 mills. Mills apply to the assessed value — a fraction of market value — so estimate a bill as assessed value × mills ÷ 1,000, and verify rates with the Board of Assessment before closing.
What is the average commute from Langhorne Borough?
Workers living in Langhorne Borough average about 23 minutes each way, per ACS 5-Year Estimates (2020–2024, tables B08013/B08303). Langhorne Borough sits in the Lower Bucks corridor of Bucks County.
What part of Bucks County is Langhorne Borough in?
Langhorne Borough is a borough in the Lower Bucks corridor of Bucks County, Pennsylvania (ZIP 19047). The county's strongest commuter access — I-95, Route 1, and SEPTA rail — paired with entry-point pricing and established neighborhoods.
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