Fact text

  • Philadelphia's name comes from the Greek words for 'brotherly love', which locals find hilarious given the city's famously passionate (read: rowdy) sports fans.
  • Philly hosts more outdoor sculptures and murals than any other city in the entire nation, it's basically one giant open-air art gallery.
  • Philadelphia has the nickname 'Cellicon Valley' for its groundbreaking role in developing cancer-fighting immunotherapies.
  • The Philadelphia Stock Exchange is the oldest stock exchange in the entire country, open for business since 1790.
  • Philadelphia was a city of firsts: first American library, first hospital, first medical school, first zoo, and first business school, basically invented civilization as we know it.
Your
Philadelphia
Retirement Outlook — in 90 seconds
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Every figure mentioned is drawn from the same sourced public data shown below — and the video updates as the data does.
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1581531
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Total Population
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$
49127
Median Income
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$
171600
Median Home
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14
%
Age 65+
Retirement Suitability
How
Philadelphia
ranks for retirees?
36
/ 100

A blended, sourced view of how this city ranks for retirees across tax, affordability, healthcare, and climate.

Tax
8
Affordability
59
Healthcare
39
Climate
50

Results

Philadelphia

Suitability Breakdown

Retirement tax planning
01 - Taxes

Retirement Tax Treatment

Tax
8

Pennsylvania does not tax Social Security benefits, which can meaningfully preserve income for retirees relying on those payments.

State sales tax here runs about

%.

Source · Tax Foundation
8
Retirement tax planning
02 - Income

Annuity Rates Available Here

Affordability
59

Fixed annuity rates reach up to

7

% on 5-year terms, with most landing between

5

% and

5

%.

Source · Cannex
59
Retirement tax planning
03 - Healthcare

Hospital Access & Quality

Healthcare
39

The area has

12

Medicare-certified hospitals, averaging a

3

/5 CMS quality rating.

Source · CMS Hospital Compare
3
Retirement tax planning
04 - Climate

Weather & Comfort

Climate
50

A

Temperate

climate — summers peak near

86

°F, winters dip to about

30

°F, with roughly

15

″ of snow a year.

Source · NOAA Climate Normals
Temperate
Retirement tax planning
05 - Risk

Natural Disaster Risk

Risk
Very High

FEMA's overall natural-disaster risk rating for this county on the National Risk Index.

Source · FEMA National Risk Index
Very High

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