Bristol, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $341,294 (+2.3% in a year), asking rent $1,996 . Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,026 (+134%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,566 +2%
- $333,728$341,294 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $82,472 +32%
- $258,822$341,294 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.
- Bristol$1,791
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Bristol, PA rose 2.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bristol, Bucks County, Pennsylvania
Bristol is a borough of 9,861 people in Bucks County. 61% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 39% are rented. Unemployment in Bucks County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% more 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bristol is a small borough in Bucks County, with a population that is neither large nor shrinking in any way the facts show. Residents are a little younger than older, on average, and most homes are lived in by their owners, though renting is common too. Incomes run well below the county's, and a typical rent is high next to a typical home's value, which matters to anyone weighing whether to stay put or sell. Winters are cold and snowy, summers are warm, and there is plenty of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, manufacturing, and transport and warehouses also employing many. Among the largest workplaces in Bristol are Bristol Borough Schools, General Doors, which makes garage doors, and Gaudenzia, a residential mental health provider. Commutes are on the long side, and a modest number of people work from home. Unemployment across Bucks County is lower than it was a year earlier, and the county has added a few jobs over the past year.
Things to do. The best-known places nearby are in and around Philadelphia, a longer drive away. Independence Hall is a historic site, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art is among the city's large museums. Lincoln Financial Field is a stadium for those who like to catch a game. For something closer, the New Jersey State House is a short drive away.
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- 4,018households
- 21%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 32 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Bucks County had 276,735 jobs in 2025, 0.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 39° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 65°. About 20 inches of snow and 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Neshaminy Falls weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Bristol
- Bristol Borough SDSchool district181FTE
- BEI - BristolAsbestos abatement services45
- General DoorsGarage doors, wood, manufacturing40
- GaudenziaMental health facilities, residential37
- BristolMail and parcel delivery31
- Wawa SiteConvenience store30
- Advent DesignAircraft carrier catapults manufacturing24
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 207 people in all. School districts come 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Bristol’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 Bucks County and the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD metro.
Bristol home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bristol$341,294
- Pennsylvania$287,078
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Bristol listings — the market is heating up.
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.
- Bristol24.83%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Bristol37
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Bristol17
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Bristol address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bristol — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.