Avondale, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $615,126 (+2.7% in a year). Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,829 (+131%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $16,074 +3%
- $599,053$615,126 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $148,769 +32%
- $466,358$615,126 since Sep 2021
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.
- Avondale$3,229
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Avondale, PA rose 2.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Avondale, Chester County, Pennsylvania
Avondale is a borough of 1,274 people in Chester County. Unemployment in Chester County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Chester County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Avondale is a small borough in southern Chester County, Pennsylvania, with a population well below that of most towns in the county. Homes here are valued above what is typical across much of the country, and a smaller share of households live below the poverty line than in many places. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and highs a little above freezing, while July brings warm days. Rain and melted snow fall at a fairly steady rate through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by professional and business services, banks, insurance and property, and manufacturing. Across Chester County, some of the largest workplaces are QVC, THE Chester County Hospital and West Chester University of Pennsylvania. Unemployment across the county is lower than it was a year earlier, and the county has added a small number of jobs. The typical commute is a moderate one, and a modest share of residents work from home.
Things to do. Longwood Gardens, a botanical garden, and Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library, another botanical garden, are both a short drive away. White Clay Creek Preserve, a protected area with creek-side land to walk, is also a short drive away. For a museum visit, the Delaware Museum of Natural History is a short drive away, and the Brandywine Museum of Art is a longer drive.
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- 9%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What people in Chester County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Chester County had 253,659 jobs in 2025, 0.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 39° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 64°. About 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Avondale North weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Chester County
- QVCTelevision order, home shopping3,505
- CubeSmartWarehousing, self storage3,348
- THE Chester County HospitalGeneral hospital2,218FTE
- West Chester University of PennsylvaniaUniversity or college1,844
- Downingtown Area SDSchool district1,802FTE
- Johnson JohnsonMed tech orthopedics1,577
- West Chester Area SDSchool district1,511FTE
- Paoli HospitalGeneral hospital1,362FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 459 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 63,589 people in all across the county; Avondale has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Avondale’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Chester County and the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD metro.
Avondale home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Avondale$615,126
- 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.
- Avondale17
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Avondale9
Zip codes with a Avondale address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Avondale — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.