The reports and resources below provide background on Philadelphia’s population, economic conditions, abortion statistics, and community health.

Please refer to each source for its reporting period, definitions, and methodology.

Sources and Statistics

Philadelphia Statistics

The Pew Charitable Trusts: Philadelphia 2026, The State of the City
Information about Philadelphia’s population, poverty, income, and other conditions affecting residents.

https://www.pew.org/en/research-and-analysis/reports/2026/04/philadelphia-2026

U.S. Census Bureau: QuickFacts, Philadelphia City, Pennsylvania
Population estimates and demographic information, including age, sex, household income, and housing.

https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/philadelphiacitypennsylvania

The Philadelphia Inquirer: “Philly is no longer the country’s poorest big city”
Published September 11, 2025, by Nate File and John Duchneskie.

https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia/poverty-rate-census-20250911.html

National Poverty Statistics

U.S. Census Bureau: Poverty in States and Metropolitan Areas: 2024
Reports the 2024 national poverty rate of 12.1% using American Community Survey one-year estimates. See page 2.

https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2025/acs/acsbr-026.html

Abortion Statistics

Pennsylvania Department of Health: 2024 Abortion Statistics
Statewide abortion statistics and county-level data. Table 8 reports abortions by the county where the procedure was performed.

View the 2024 Pennsylvania Abortion Statistics Report (PDF)

Pennsylvania Department of Health: 2023 Abortion Statistics
Statewide and county-level abortion data for 2023. Table 8 reports abortions by the county where the procedure was performed.

View the 2023 Pennsylvania Abortion Statistics Report (PDF)

Sexual Health Statistics

Innerbody Research: U.S. Cities With the Highest STI Rates, 2025
An analysis of metropolitan-area sexually transmitted infection rates using CDC surveillance data for 2023. The rankings are published by Innerbody Research, not by the CDC itself.

https://www.innerbody.com/std-testing/std-statistics

Infant & Community Health Statistics

Philadelphia Department of Public Health: Health of the City
Information about Philadelphia’s health outcomes and the social, economic, and environmental conditions that affect community health.

https://www.phila.gov/documents/health-of-the-city/

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Infant Health
National statistics on infant mortality, low birthweight, and preterm births, with links to the underlying reports.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/infant-health.htm

Philadelphia Infant Mortality Statistics

Pennsylvania Department of Health: Maternal and Child Health Status Indicators, Philadelphia
The “Resident Infant Deaths” table reports 5.9 infant deaths per 1,000 live births in 2024. Use the 2024, All Races entry, not the five-year combined rate.

View the Philadelphia Maternal and Child Health report (PDF)

National Infant Mortality Statistics

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Mortality in the United States, 2024
Reports 552.5 infant deaths per 100,000 live births, equivalent to 5.525 per 1,000, rounded to 5.5 for the website. See the data table for Figure 5.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db548.htm

Philadelphia Low Birth Weight Statistics

Pennsylvania Department of Health: Resident Live Births by Birth Weight and Trimester of First Prenatal Visit, Counties and Pennsylvania, 2024
The Philadelphia row on page 2 records 1,936 births below 2,500 grams out of 18,124 births with known birth weight. That calculates to 10.7%, rounded to one decimal place. Births with unknown weight are excluded from this calculation.

View the 2024 Pennsylvania county birth-weight table (PDF)

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