Boyertown, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $341,743 (+3.9% in a year), asking rent $1,401 . Reading, PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$997 (+125%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,891 +4%
- $328,852$341,743 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $84,149 +33%
- $257,594$341,743 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.
- Boyertown$1,794
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Boyertown, PA rose 3.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Boyertown, Berks County, Pennsylvania
Boyertown is a borough of 4,264 people in Berks County. Half its households earn more than $56,723 a year and half less, against $79,777 across Berks County; 11% of its people live below the poverty line. 41% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 59% are rented. Unemployment in Berks County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Boyertown is a small borough in Berks County, home to a modest number of people. Residents tend to be somewhat older than is typical, and incomes run well below the county's. More households here rent their homes than across the county, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest. Rain and melted snow fall through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in transport, warehouses and utilities. Among the largest workplaces in Boyertown are Berk International, which makes paper towels, Unicast Company, an iron foundry, and Chestnut Knoll, an assisted-living facility. Unemployment across Berks County is lower than it was a year ago, and a good share of residents commute a fair way to their jobs.
Things to do. The Bahr Mill Complex, a museum, is in or beside town. A short drive away, Manatawny Creek offers a river to walk beside, and Grandview Speedway is a race track. For a longer outing, Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site is a protected area a longer drive away, where visitors can learn about the region's iron-making past.
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- 1,900households
- 21%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Berks County had 175,054 jobs in 2025, 0.8% 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 64°. About 45 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Pottstown Limerick Airport weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Boyertown
- Berk InternationalTowels, paper, made from purchased paper121
- Chestnut KnollAssisted-living facilities without on-site nursing care facilities98
- Unicast CompanyGray iron foundries49
- Frecon FarmsSpecialty food stores45
- BoyertownMail and parcel delivery24
- Walnut WoodsSenior living22
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 359 people in all. 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
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively 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 Boyertown’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 Berks County and the Reading, PA metro.
Boyertown home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Boyertown$341,743
- Pennsylvania$287,078
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Boyertown 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.
- Boyertown25.33%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Boyertown25
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Boyertown12
Zip codes with a Boyertown address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Boyertown — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.