Avella, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $209,203 (+3.3% in a year). Pittsburgh, PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$126 (+13%) since Jan 2024.
- 1 year
- Up $6,712 +3%
- $202,492$209,203 since Sep 2025
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Avella$1,098
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Avella, PA rose 3.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Avella, Washington County, Pennsylvania
Avella, in Washington County, had 782 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Washington County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 2.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Avella is a small community in Washington County, Pennsylvania, with a small population by any measure. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and highs staying close to freezing, while July is warm. Rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades, and in transport, warehouses and utilities. Across Washington County, some of the largest workplaces are Pennsylvania Western University, UPMC Washington and Canon-McMillan Schools. Commutes here are long compared with most places, and a good number of people work from home.
Things to do. Meadowcroft Rockshelter, a museum, is in or beside town and is the closest place on the list to visit. A longer drive brings you to the Ohio River and the Allegheny River, and to Pittsburgh institutions such as the Carnegie Museum of Natural History.
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- 17%of adults have a degree
- 57 mintypical commute
- 15%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Washington County had 89,399 jobs in 2025, 2.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 36° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 62°. About 43 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Steubenville weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Washington County
- Pennsylvania Western UniversityUniversity or college1,537
- Songer ServicesAddition, alteration and renovation, general contractors, industrial building1,319
- Upmc WashingtonGeneral hospital1,306FTE
- Lighthouse Electric CompanyElectrical contractors1,024
- Canon-McMillan SDSchool district676FTE
- Campbell Transportation Company (Vessel Operations)Freight transportation, inland waters672
- Monongahela Valley HospitalGeneral hospital668FTE
- Penn EntertainmentCasino hotels663
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 198 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 27,053 people in all across the county; Avella has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Avella’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Washington County and the Pittsburgh, PA metro.
Avella home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Avella$209,203
- Pennsylvania$287,078
- United States$366,157
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Avella16
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Avella address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Avella — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.