Bolivar, Pennsylvania.
. Pittsburgh, PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$793 (+111%) since Jan 2020.
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.
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
Living in Bolivar, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania
Bolivar is a borough of 435 people in Westmoreland County. 88% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 12% are rented. Unemployment in Westmoreland County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% fewer 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bolivar is a small borough in Westmoreland County, and most homes there are lived in by their owners, a higher share than is typical across the country. Poverty is somewhat more common than is usual for the county, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, summers are warm but not hot, and a good deal of rain and melted snow falls over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, government, and professional and business services also employing many. Across Westmoreland County, the largest workplaces include Westmoreland Regional Hospital, UPS and Elliott Group. The county has lost a small number of jobs over the past year, and unemployment has eased compared with a year ago. Commutes tend to be long, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Buttermilk Falls Natural Area, a waterfall, and the Squirrel Hill Site, an archaeological site, are both a short drive away, as is Blacklick Creek. A longer drive brings you to Idlewild and Soak Zone, an amusement park, and to Flight 93 National Memorial, a protected area that is one of the best known places nearby.
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- 158households
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
- 34 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Westmoreland County had 128,972 jobs in 2025, 0.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 36° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 61°. About 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Laurel Mountain weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Westmoreland County
- Penn Line Tree ServiceTree and brush trimming, overhead utility line1,772
- UPSCouriers and express delivery services1,549
- Cleveland Brothers Equipment CompanyAgricultural machinery and equipment repair and maintenance services1,433
- Westmoreland Regional HospitalGeneral hospital1,308FTE
- Elliott GroupCompressors, air and gas, general purpose-type, manufacturing1,033
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage941
- LeedsworldLabels, textile, merchant wholesalers770
- Latrobe Area HospitalGeneral hospital702FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 323 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 46,068 people in all across the county; Bolivar has none of its own. 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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Bolivar’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 Westmoreland County and the Pittsburgh, PA metro.
Bolivar home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
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Zip codes with a Bolivar address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bolivar — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.