Bally, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $281,924 (-1.5% in a year). Reading, PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$803 (+119%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $4,431 -2%
- $286,355$281,924 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $63,599 +29%
- $218,326$281,924 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.
- Bally$1,480
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Bally, PA fell 1.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bally, Berks County, Pennsylvania
Bally is a borough of 1,228 people in Berks County. Half its households earn more than $76,339 a year and half less, against $79,777 across Berks County; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. 71% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 29% are rented. Unemployment in Berks County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bally is a small borough in Berks County, home to a population that skews older, with a median age above what is typical across the country. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes run a little below the county's. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm in July, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and professional and business services also employing many. Some of the larger workplaces in Bally itself are Quigley Bus Service, PB Heat and Bally Block. The typical commute is a moderate one, and a small share of people work from home.
Things to do. Grandview Speedway, a race track, is in or beside town, as is the Dale Furnace and Forge Historic District, an archaeological site. A short drive away are Bear Creek Ski and Recreation Area, a ski area, and Perkiomen Creek, a river. For a day out, Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom, an amusement park, is a longer drive away.
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- 497households
- 24%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Berks County had 175,054 jobs in 2025, 0.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 37° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 64°. About 45 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Pottstown Limerick Airport weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Bally
- Quigley Bus ServiceSchool bus services198
- PB HeatOil burners, heating, manufacturing60
- Bally BlockApplicators, wood, manufacturing59
- Harnate CapitalPlumbing and heating contractors30
- Bally Community Ambulance AssociationAmbulance services, air or ground22
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 369 people in all. 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Bally’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 Berks County and the Reading, PA metro.
Bally home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bally$281,924
- 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Bally address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bally — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.