Boswell, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $161,189 (+2.4% in a year). Somerset, PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$402 (+91%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,842 +2%
- $157,347$161,189 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $15,124 +10%
- $146,065$161,189 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.
- Boswell$846
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 35 years.
Typical home values in Boswell, PA rose 2.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Boswell, Somerset County, Pennsylvania
Boswell is a borough of 1,224 people in Somerset County. 74% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 26% are rented. Unemployment in Somerset County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Somerset County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Boswell is a small borough in Somerset County, in the Allegheny foothills of southwestern Pennsylvania. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and home values run modest. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree here than is typical across the country, and winters are long and cold, with a great deal of snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, retail, and professional and business services close behind. Across Somerset County, some of the largest workplaces are UPMC Somerset, Windber Hospital and Somerset Area Schools. The usual trip to work is a short drive, and few people work from home.
Things to do. The Mountain Playhouse, a theatre, is in or beside town. A short drive away are Laurel Mountain State Park and the Laurel Mountain Ski Resort, which suit hiking in the warm months and snow sports in winter. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to Fallingwater, a museum, and to the Johnstown Flood National Memorial.
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- 538households
- 12%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What people in Somerset County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Somerset County had 23,200 jobs in 2025, 0.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 31° and lows near 14°; warmest in July, with highs near 74° and lows near 58°. About 142 inches of snow and 57 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Laurel Summit weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Somerset County
- MlakerBus operation, school and employee507
- VR US HoldingsHotels and motels453
- Upmc SomersetGeneral hospital436FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters372
- Windber HospitalGeneral hospital314FTE
- Somerset Area SDSchool district297FTE
- CVS Pharmacy, Inc.General warehousing and storage295
- Wheeler Fleet Solutions - SomersetMotor vehicle parts and accessories, new, merchant wholesalers279
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 54 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,739 people in all across the county; Boswell has one of its own. Hospitals come 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
- LightningRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Boswell’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 Somerset County and the Somerset, PA metro.
Boswell home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Boswell$161,189
- 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.
- Boswell7
Zip codes with a Boswell address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Boswell — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.