Brookhaven, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $267,505 (+1.7% in a year), asking rent $1,709 . Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$800 (+133%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,390 +2%
- $263,115$267,505 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $64,187 +32%
- $203,318$267,505 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.
- Brookhaven$1,404
- 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 Brookhaven, PA rose 1.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Brookhaven, Delaware County, Pennsylvania
Brookhaven is a borough of 8,300 people in Delaware County. Half its households earn more than $91,042 a year and half less, against $89,546 across Delaware County; 4% of its people live below the poverty line. 85% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 15% are rented. Unemployment in Delaware County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Brookhaven is a borough in Delaware County, and it is a place where most people own the homes they live in, more than across the county as a whole. Household incomes run a little above the county's, and fewer residents live below the poverty line than you might expect. The population is somewhat older than in many towns, and winters are cold while summers turn warm, with rain and melted snow spread through the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in shops, manufacturing, and professional and business services. In town, some of the largest workplaces are Giant Food Stores, Lowe S of Brookhaven and Shoprite of Brookhaven. Commutes are moderate, and a share of people work from home.
Things to do. Subaru Park, a stadium, is in or beside town. For a longer drive, Lincoln Financial Field is another stadium, and Independence Hall is an archaeological site tied to the nation's early history. The Philadelphia Museum of Art, a museum, is also a longer drive away.
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- 3,799households
- 33%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Delaware County had 219,222 jobs in 2025, 0.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 43° and lows near 27°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 70°. About 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Marcus Hook weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Brookhaven
- Giant Food StoresGrocery stores180
- Lowe's Companies, INCHomecenter138
- Shoprite of BrookhavenSupermarkets123
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 441 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
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Brookhaven’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 Delaware County and the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD metro.
Brookhaven home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Brookhaven$267,505
- Pennsylvania$287,078
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Brookhaven listings, and the typical home goes pending in 10 days — 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.
- Brookhaven27.39%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Brookhaven10
- United States21
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Brookhaven45
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Brookhaven22
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Brookhaven$255,736
- United States$371,407
Zip codes with a Brookhaven address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Brookhaven — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.