Blain, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $198,743 (+1.3% in a year). Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$325 (+45%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $2,531 +1%
- $196,212$198,743 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.
- Blain$1,043
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Blain, PA rose 1.3% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Blain, Perry County, Pennsylvania
Blain is a borough of 229 people in Perry County. Unemployment in Perry County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 3.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in shops, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Blain is a very small borough in Perry County, among the smallest places a person could choose to live in Pennsylvania. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and relatively few people live below the poverty line. Homes here are priced modestly, and winters are cold, with January the coldest month and plenty of snow, while July brings warm days and the year as a whole is fairly wet.
Work. Residents work mostly in shops, in schools, hospitals and social care, in transport, warehouses and utilities, and in the building trades. Very few work from home. Across Perry County, the largest workplaces include West Perry Schools, Champion Liverpool, which builds prefabricated houses and mobile homes, and Giant Food Stores. The county has added jobs over the past year, and unemployment there is lower than it was a year earlier.
Things to do. A short drive away are Fowlers Hollow State Park and Colonel Denning State Park, both protected areas with room to walk and spend time outdoors, as well as Buffalo Creek, a river close to town. For history and a longer outing, the U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center is a museum a longer drive away.
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- 92households
- 9%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Perry County had 8,152 jobs in 2025, 3.2% 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 63°. About 44 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Bloserville North weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Perry County
- West Perry SDSchool district309FTE
- Susquenita SDSchool district212FTE
- Newport SDSchool district190FTE
- Champion LiverpoolHouses, prefabricated mobile homes, manufacturing165
- Giant Food StoresGrocery stores140
- Specialty BakersPastries, fresh, made in commercial bakeries134
- Premier at Perry VillageSkilled nursing facilities115
- Greenwood SDSchool district113FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 10 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 946 people in all across the county; Blain has none of its own. School districts come 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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Blain’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 Perry County and the Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA metro.
Blain home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Blain$198,743
- 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.
Zip codes with a Blain address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Blain — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.