Brockway, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $137,980 (+4.8% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$344 (+90%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,296 +5%
- $131,684$137,980 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $18,590 +16%
- $119,389$137,980 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.
- Brockway$724
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 24 years.
Typical home values in Brockway, PA rose 4.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Brockway, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania
Brockway is a borough of 2,276 people in Jefferson County. 66% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 34% are rented. Unemployment in Jefferson County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 1.7% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Brockway is a small borough in Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Typical home values are modest, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many parts of the country. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and snow and melted snow adding up through the year, while July is the warmest month and stays comfortably mild.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, shops and government. Across Jefferson County, the largest workplaces include Punxsutawney Area Schools, Ali Group North America and Punxsutawney Area Hospital. Commutes are short, and only a small share of people work from home. Unemployment across the county is lower than a year earlier, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. Outdoor places are the main draw. State Game Lands Number 44 is a protected area a short drive away, and North Fork Redbank Creek and Little Toby Creek are rivers close by as well. For a longer outing, Moshannon State Forest is a protected area a longer drive away.
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- 1,022households
- 19%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 17 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jefferson County had 14,194 jobs in 2025, 1.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 79° and lows near 59°. About 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Dubois Jefferson County Airport weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Jefferson County
- Punxsutawney Area SDSchool district410FTE
- Ali Group North AmericaCoolers, refrigeration, manufacturing362
- Punxsutawney Area HospitalGeneral hospital313FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters249
- Penn HighlandsHomes for the elderly with nursing care244
- Cresco Labs - BrookvilleHydroponic crop farming216
- Brookville Area SDSchool district211FTE
- Brockway Area SDSchool district190FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 47 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,279 people in all across the county; Brockway has two of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Brockway’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 Jefferson County.
Brockway home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Brockway$137,980
- Pennsylvania$287,078
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
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.
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Zip codes with a Brockway address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Brockway — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.