Brackenridge, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $116,298 (+11.5% in a year). Pittsburgh, PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$349 (+133%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,005 +12%
- $104,292$116,298 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $17,413 +18%
- $98,884$116,298 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.
- Brackenridge$610
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 21 years.
Typical home values in Brackenridge, PA rose 11.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Brackenridge, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
Brackenridge is a borough of 3,240 people in Allegheny County. 67% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 33% are rented. Unemployment in Allegheny County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Brackenridge is a small borough in Allegheny County, home to a population that skews older than the typical American town. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and typical home values are well below what many buyers expect in a metro area. A four-year degree is held by fewer adults here than across the wider country, and a good number of households live below the poverty line.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, transport and warehouses, and manufacturing. Few people work from home. Across Allegheny County, some of the largest workplaces are the University of Pittsburgh, UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside and Carnegie Mellon University.
Things to do. The Ohio River, a river, and the Allegheny River are both a longer drive away. Pittsburgh's Carnegie Museum of Natural History and the Andy Warhol Museum are also a longer drive away, and PNC Park, a baseball stadium, sits in the same direction. Winters here are cold, so many of these outings suit the warmer months, when July highs are comfortable.
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- 1,533households
- 15%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 8%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Allegheny County had 670,169 jobs in 2025, 0.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 36° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 63°. About 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Natrona Lock weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Allegheny County
- University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh CampusUniversity or college14,731
- Upmc - Presbyterian ShadysideGeneral hospital8,829FTE
- Carnegie Mellon UniversityUniversity or college6,271
- University of Pittsburgh PhysiciansOffices of physicians4,542
- University of Pittsburgh Medical CenterDirect health and medical insurance carriers4,222
- Pittsburgh SDSchool district4,141FTE
- Eaton3,956
- University of Pittsburgh Medical CenterOffices of physicians3,812
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1,072 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 217,600 people in all across the county; Brackenridge has one 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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Brackenridge’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 Allegheny County and the Pittsburgh, PA metro.
Brackenridge home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Brackenridge$116,298
- 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.
- Brackenridge14
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Brackenridge address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Brackenridge — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.