Barnesville, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $239,330 (+3.7% in a year). Pottsville, PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$173 (+16%) since Jan 2024.
- 1 year
- Up $8,445 +4%
- $230,885$239,330 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.
- Barnesville$1,256
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Barnesville, PA rose 3.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Barnesville, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania
The Census does not count Barnesville on its own, so the figures here are Schuylkill County's. Half the county's households earn more than $68,313 a year and half less; 13% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 76% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 24% are rented. Unemployment in Schuylkill County was 5.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Schuylkill County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Barnesville is in Schuylkill County, in the coal-country hills of eastern Pennsylvania. Across the county, most homes are lived in by their owners, and home values sit at a moderate level for the region. The county's population skews somewhat older than the national average, and a minority of adults hold a four-year degree.
Work. Schools, hospitals and social care, manufacturing, retail shops, and transport with warehouses and utilities are the main places residents work. Unemployment across the county is lower than it was a year earlier, and the number of jobs has edged up over the past year. Working from home is uncommon, and winters are cold and snowy while summers are warm and fairly wet.
Things to do. Tuscarora State Park and Locust Lake State Park are both protected areas a short drive away, good for walks and time outdoors. Catawissa Creek, a river also a short drive away, offers a quieter place to spend an afternoon by the water.
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- 57,988households
- 43.7median age
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What people in Schuylkill County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Schuylkill County had 50,502 jobs in 2025, 0.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 61°. About 48 inches of snow and 54 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mahanoy City North weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Schuylkill County
- WalmartRefrigerated warehousing and storage1,201
- Hydro CressonaAluminum bar made by extruding purchased aluminum1,100
- Cargill Meat Solutions (2)Meats fresh, chilled or frozen, produced in slaughtering plants1,030
- Wegmans Food MarketsGeneral warehouse and storage920
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage879
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage799
- Lehigh Valley Hospital - SchuylkillGeneral hospital643FTE
- Lowe's Companies, INCWarehouse567
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 151 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 23,617 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Schuylkill County, 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 Schuylkill County and the Pottsville, PA metro.
Barnesville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Barnesville$239,330
- 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.
- Barnesville6
Zip codes with a Barnesville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Barnesville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.