ZIP profile

Banking access in ZIP 17846

Pennsylvania · Columbia PA. Source year 2025.

Potential-desert dominant

The published Financial Access Pressure Index is 45.7993. Higher values indicate more measured physical banking-access pressure. This measure does not identify bank branches, drive-through hours, individual banking behavior, or overall neighborhood quality.

Banking-access measures

Pressure index45.7993
National pressure rank#1,589 of 20,307
National percentile89.77
State pressure rank#49 of 1,003
State percentile94.52
Weighted banking-desert geography0.97%
Weighted potential-desert geography89.65%
Population banking-desert exposure0.76%
Population potential-desert exposure91.24%
Allocated population3,548.49
Allocated population in banking deserts26.90

Geographic shares and population shares use different denominators. Published ranks and percentiles are preserved, including ties. Population estimates are displayed to two decimals; exact source values are in the downloads.

People & financial access

Estimated population-group exposure to banking-desert geography. These are allocated estimates, not counts of unbanked people. Groups overlap and must not be added together.

Population groupRepresented estimateExposed estimateExposure shareEvidence tier
American Indian / Alaska Native non-Hispanic0.600.000.00%LIMITED
Asian non-Hispanic20.830.040.18%LIMITED
Black non-Hispanic8.290.131.58%LIMITED
Residents with disabilities474.533.910.82%LIMITED
Hispanic22.450.351.55%LIMITED
Older residents723.925.530.76%LIMITED
Other race non-Hispanic0.030.03100.00%LIMITED
People of color110.920.970.87%LIMITED
Two or more races non-Hispanic58.720.420.72%LIMITED
White non-Hispanic3,437.5725.930.75%STANDARD

Evidence tiers are passed through from the source. Missing ranks or rates remain unavailable. A zero exposure share does not guarantee that a branch is open or nearby.

Source year: 2025 in the governed ZIP profile view. Exported October 13, 2026; the export date is not an observation date. Population figures are allocated estimates; groups can overlap. Sources and interpretation →