Blanchard, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $218,651 (+1.5% in a year). State College, PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$477 (+71%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,314 +2%
- $215,337$218,651 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $19,980 +10%
- $198,671$218,651 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.
- Blanchard$1,148
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 36 years.
Typical home values in Blanchard, PA rose 1.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Blanchard, Centre County, Pennsylvania
Blanchard, in Centre County, had 597 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Centre County was 3.0% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Centre County work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Blanchard is a very small community in Centre County, Pennsylvania, with far fewer people than the towns around it. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and snow falling through much of the season, while summers are warm in July without turning extreme. Rain and melted snow are fairly steady through the year. Few residents hold a four-year degree compared with the country as a whole, and very few live below the poverty line.
Work. Residents mostly work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by restaurants, hotels and entertainment, shops, and professional and business services. Across Centre County, the largest workplaces include Pennsylvania State University, Mount Nittany Medical Center and State College Area Schools. Commutes are long, and very few people work from home. Jobs across the county grew slightly last year, and unemployment is lower than it was a year earlier.
Things to do. Bald Eagle State Park, a protected area, lies in or beside town, which makes it the easiest place to get outdoors. A short drive away are Lick Run, a stream, and Foster Joseph Sayers Reservoir, a reservoir. Farther afield by car, Beaver Stadium, a stadium, is a longer drive away, as is Bald Eagle State Forest, a large protected area.
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- 226households
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 2%below the poverty line
- 40 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What people in Centre County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Centre County had 69,346 jobs in 2025, 1.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 35° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 61°. About 30 inches of snow and 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lock Haven Sewage Plt weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Centre County
- Pennsylvania State UniversityUniversity or college17,378
- Mount Nittany Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,612FTE
- State College Area SDSchool district1,296FTE
- Bellefonte Area SDSchool district406FTE
- Restek Corporation BellefonteGas chromatographic instruments, industrial process-type, manufacturing387
- Wegmans Food MarketsRetail supermarkets379
- Pennsylvania State University-World CampusUniversity or college366
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters344
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 117 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 13,157 people in all across the county; Blanchard 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Blanchard’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 Centre County and the State College, PA metro.
Blanchard home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Blanchard$218,651
- 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 Blanchard address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Blanchard — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.