Berwyn, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $979,989 (+6.2% in a year), asking rent $2,526 . Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,974 (+137%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $57,533 +6%
- $922,457$979,989 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $280,708 +40%
- $699,282$979,989 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.
- Berwyn$5,144
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Berwyn, PA rose 6.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Berwyn, Chester County, Pennsylvania
Berwyn, in Chester County, had 3,775 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $145,833 a year and half less, against $127,208 across Chester County. 71% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 29% are rented. 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Berwyn is a small community where incomes run above the county's and most homes are lived in by their owners. Typical home values are high, and rents are not low either, so living here is a considerable expense for owners and renters alike. A four-year degree is held by most adults, and winters are cold, with summers that turn properly warm.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in professional and business services, manufacturing, and banks, insurance and property. 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 a year ago, and the county has added a few more jobs than the year before. The typical commute is a fairly long one.
Things to do. The best-known places nearby are in Philadelphia, a longer drive away. Independence Hall is a historic site, the Philadelphia Museum of Art is a museum, and Lincoln Financial Field is a stadium. Each takes a longer drive to reach.
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- 1,400households
- 71%of adults have a degree
- 29 mintypical commute
What residents 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 41° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 66°. About 45 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Phoenixville East weather station, 6 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; Berwyn has two 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
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively 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 Berwyn’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 Chester County and the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD metro.
Berwyn home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Berwyn$979,989
- Pennsylvania$287,078
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Berwyn listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Berwyn22.09%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Berwyn27
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Berwyn13
Zip codes with a Berwyn address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Berwyn — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.