Burnham, Pennsylvania.
. Lewistown, PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$793 (+111%) since Jan 2020.
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.
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
Living in Burnham, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania
Burnham is a borough of 1,991 people in Mifflin County. Half its households earn more than $67,656 a year and half less, against $63,953 across Mifflin County; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. 74% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 26% are rented. Unemployment in Mifflin County was 3.1% in August 2026, and the county had 1.5% more 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Burnham is a small borough in Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, with a population that is easy to know by sight. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes run a little above the county's. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than is typical across the country, and winters are cold and snowy, with warm summers and plenty of rain through the year.
Work. Residents most often work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, government and the building trades. Standard Steel, which makes wheels for cars and locomotives, is the largest workplace in town, and Giant Food Stores and Weis Markets are among the others. The typical commute is short, and a small share of people work from home.
Things to do. Honey Creek and Kishacoquillas Creek both run in or beside town, and the Embassy Theatre is close by as well. A short drive away are Fort Granville and Reeds Gap State Park, a protected area for walking and time outdoors. Penn State's Beaver Stadium is a longer drive away.
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- 814households
- 15%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 18 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Mifflin County had 17,229 jobs in 2025, 1.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 37° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 63°. About 26 inches of snow and 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lewistown weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Burnham
- Standard SteelWheels, car and locomotive, iron or steel, made in iron and steel mills585
- Giant Food StoresGrocery stores115
- Weis MarketsSupermarkets and other grocery87
- JCPenneyRetail24
- Goodwill Keystone AreaVocational rehabilitation or habilitation services21
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 832 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 moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Burnham’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 Mifflin County and the Lewistown, PA metro.
Burnham home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Burnham8
Zip codes with a Burnham address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Burnham — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.