Perkasie Borough is a walkable Upper Bucks borough paired with Sellersville, with a historic downtown, Pennridge schools, and a more affordable entry point than Central or River corridors.
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Municipality identity
What we know about Perkasie Borough.
Perkasie Borough is a walkable Upper Bucks borough paired with Sellersville, with a historic downtown, Pennridge schools, and a more affordable entry point than Central or River corridors. 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 Upper Bucks curated
Primary ZIP 18944 curated
Population 9,120 curated
Land area 1.8 sq mi curated
Established 1879 curated
Reference coordinates 40.3717, -75.2931 curated
Housing corridor
Upper Bucks
Corridor grouping is curated for housing comparison — not a municipal boundary.
Primary ZIP
18944
ZIP codes do not determine school district assignment in Bucks County.
Population
9,120
Municipal reference data — confirm with U.S. Census for official counts.
Land area
1.8 sq mi
Municipal reference data.
Established
1879
Historical incorporation reference — verify with municipal records if material to your decision.
Reference coordinates
40.3717, -75.2931
Centroid-style reference point for GIS orientation — not a property boundary.
Market snapshot
Perkasie Borough by the numbers.
Census-cited figures for Perkasie 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.
Pennridge 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
Perkasie Borough millage (2026)9.25 mills
official
Pennridge SD millage (2025–2026)140.1892 mills official
Combined total179.0892 mills
County (29.65 mills)
Perkasie Borough (9.25 mills)
Pennridge SD (140.1892 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.
More land per dollar, lower density, borough anchors like Quakertown and Perkasie, and the most patient appreciation in the county.
Buyer framing (curated): More land per dollar, borough downtowns like Quakertown and Perkasie, and Pennridge or Quakertown schools. Buyers who want space often start here.
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 Perkasie 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
Pennridge SD
Curated municipality mapping. District assignment is still address-level — verify before you act.
03
curated
Market corridor
Upper Bucks
More land per dollar, lower density, borough anchors like Quakertown and Perkasie, and the most patient appreciation in the county.
04
curated
Municipality overview
Curated
Overview drawn from curated municipal reference data — not a market valuation.
County context
How Perkasie Borough compares to the rest of Bucks County.
At $372,100, the median home in Perkasie Borough sits 16.4% below the $445,250 county
median — 39th highest of the 54 municipalities with
a published figure.
Median household income sits 17.3% below the county at $93,845. Owner-occupancy sits at 67.8%, close to the county's mix of owners and renters.
The mean one-way commute is 28.9 min against a county median
of 28.9 min.
Measure
Perkasie Borough
County median
Rank
Median home value
$372,100
$445,250
39th of 54 -16.4%
Median household income
$93,845
$113,475
42nd of 54 -17.3%
Median gross rent
$1,204
$1,575
48th of 52 -23.5%
Owner-occupied share
67.8%
80.7%
43rd of 54 -16%
Mean commute
28.9 min
28.9 min
27th of 54 0%
Median age
37.6
44.1
48th of 54 -14.6%
Population density
5,067 / sq mi
—
1.8 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 Perkasie Borough fits, look at these next.
Closest matches on home value, income, rent, owner-occupancy and commute — the towns a buyer weighing Perkasie Borough usually ends up comparing it against.
Perkasie Borough is in UGI's gas service territory, not PECO's.
Perkasie, like neighboring Quakertown, is a municipal-electric borough: since 1947 the borough has
bought power at wholesale and distributed it over its own lines, through a substation rebuilt in
1995. The electric bill comes from the borough, rates are set by council rather than the PUC, and
the linemen who restore an outage are borough employees.
The municipal streak runs through the whole service stack: Perkasie is also the only Bucks County
municipality that collects trash with its own public-works crews. Gas is UGI — the borough sits
inside UGI’s Upper Bucks territory rather than PECO’s. Outside the borough line, in East Rockhill
and Hilltown, the regional utilities take over, so confirm the exact address before assuming
municipal rates. Water and sewer questions route through the borough office.
Trash & recycling Municipal crews collect
RecyclingWeekly
Bulk itemsScheduled, fee applies
Contracted haulerBorough public works crews
Perkasie is the ONLY Bucks County municipality that runs its own trash collection with municipal crews. Bulk pickup available monthly for a fee.
The borough-run pool complex — swim teams, lessons, and summer memberships, plus a separate 2nd Street wading pool.
Roads
PA 313 / PA 152
Doylestown and Souderton are both direct drives; Quakertown is fifteen minutes up 313.
Perkasie is Upper Bucks’ most complete borough: a real downtown, a creekside park system
anchored by Lenape Park, and a municipally run aquatics center — the kind of
parks-and-pool civic infrastructure that usually requires a much bigger town. The street
grid is walkable, the housing stock runs from Victorian to new infill, and community events
actually fill the calendar.
Schools are Pennridge, and Perkasie generally prices as the district’s premium address —
the walkability is what you’re paying for versus the surrounding townships. There’s no rail
(the old line is a trail conversation, not a train), so commuters live on 313 and 152;
for Philadelphia-bound buyers, that drive is the honest cost of borough life this far north.
A Perkasie Borough address is presumed to sit in Pennridge SD, but boundaries split streets — confirm the assignment for the exact parcel. Assessment matters more than the $372,100 median suggests: Bucks County assesses at a fraction of market value, so two similar Perkasie Borough homes can carry very different bills.
Perkasie Borough is served by Pennridge 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 Perkasie Borough?
The median value of owner-occupied homes in Perkasie Borough is about $372K, 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 Perkasie Borough?
Perkasie Borough has a median household income of about $94K, a median age of 37.6, 67.8% 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 Perkasie Borough?
Perkasie Borough property owners pay three separate bills totaling 179.0892 mills on the county assessed value (2026 county sheet): county 29.65 mills, Perkasie Borough 9.25 mills, and Pennridge SD 140.1892 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 Perkasie Borough?
Workers living in Perkasie Borough average about 28.9 minutes each way, per ACS 5-Year Estimates (2020–2024, tables B08013/B08303). Perkasie Borough sits in the Upper Bucks corridor of Bucks County.
What part of Bucks County is Perkasie Borough in?
Perkasie Borough is a borough in the Upper Bucks corridor of Bucks County, Pennsylvania (ZIP 18944). More land per dollar, lower density, borough anchors like Quakertown and Perkasie, and the most patient appreciation in the county.
Closing support
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