Bakerstown, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $493,147 (+7.5% in a year). Pittsburgh, PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,369 (+112%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $34,372 +7%
- $458,775$493,147 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $104,808 +27%
- $388,339$493,147 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.
- Bakerstown$2,588
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Bakerstown, PA rose 7.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bakerstown, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
Bakerstown, in Allegheny County, had 2,745 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $164,330 a year and half less, against $78,548 across Allegheny County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Allegheny County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bakerstown is a small community in Allegheny County, home to far fewer people than the city of Pittsburgh to its south. Household incomes here run well above the county's, and a four-year degree is common among adults. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest; rain and melted snow fall through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with professional and business services, manufacturing and shops also employing a good number. Across Allegheny County, some of the largest workplaces are the University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University and UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside. The typical commute is a long one, and a share of people skip it by working from home.
Things to do. The Pittsburgh area is a longer drive away, and it holds most of what draws people out. The Andy Warhol Museum and the Carnegie Museum of Natural History are well-known museums, and the Pittsburgh Zoo & Aquarium is a good outing for families. The Allegheny River also runs through the area, a longer drive from town.
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- 960households
- 72%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 35 mintypical commute
- 18%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Allegheny County had 670,169 jobs in 2025, 0.1% fewer 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 45 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Acmetonia Lock weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Allegheny County
- University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh CampusUniversity or college14,731
- Upmc - Presbyterian ShadysideGeneral hospital8,829FTE
- Carnegie Mellon UniversityUniversity or college6,271
- University of Pittsburgh PhysiciansOffices of physicians4,542
- University of Pittsburgh Medical CenterDirect health and medical insurance carriers4,222
- Pittsburgh SDSchool district4,141FTE
- Eaton3,956
- University of Pittsburgh Medical CenterOffices of physicians3,812
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1,072 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 217,600 people in all across the county; Bakerstown 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
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Bakerstown’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 Allegheny County and the Pittsburgh, PA metro.
Bakerstown home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bakerstown$493,147
- 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.
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Zip codes with a Bakerstown address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bakerstown — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.