Champion, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $349,249 (+2.0% in a year). Pittsburgh, PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$3 (+0%) since Jan 2024.
- 1 year
- Up $6,833 +2%
- $342,416$349,249 since Sep 2025
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.
- Champion$1,833
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Champion, PA rose 2.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Champion, Somerset County, Pennsylvania
The Census does not count Champion on its own, so the figures here are Somerset County's. Half the county's households earn more than $61,446 a year and half less; 11% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 80% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 20% are rented. Unemployment in Somerset County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Somerset County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Champion is a small town in Somerset County, in the Laurel Highlands of southwestern Pennsylvania. Winters are cold and snowy, and the year is wetter than in most of the country. The hills and woods around it draw people who like being outdoors.
Work. Across Somerset County, most jobs are in schools, hospitals and social care, manufacturing, shops, and professional and business services. Unemployment is lower than a year earlier, though the county had slightly fewer jobs last year than the year before. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in the country as a whole, and few residents work from home, so most people travel to a workplace each day.
Things to do. Seven Springs Mountain Resort, a ski area, is in or beside town, so winter sports are close at hand. Roaring Run Natural Area, a park, is also in or beside town, and Laurel Hill State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away. Fallingwater, a museum, is a longer drive off.
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- 29,344households
- 46.9median age
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What people in Somerset County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Somerset County had 23,200 jobs in 2025, 0.4% 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 77° and lows near 61°. About 56 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hidden Valley weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Somerset County
- MlakerBus operation, school and employee507
- VR US HoldingsHotels and motels453
- Upmc SomersetGeneral hospital436FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters372
- Windber HospitalGeneral hospital314FTE
- Somerset Area SDSchool district297FTE
- CVS Pharmacy, Inc.General warehousing and storage295
- Wheeler Fleet Solutions - SomersetMotor vehicle parts and accessories, new, merchant wholesalers279
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 54 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,739 people in all. Hospitals come 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 moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Somerset County, 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 Somerset County and the Pittsburgh, PA metro.
Champion home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Champion$349,249
- Pennsylvania$287,078
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Champion listings — the market is cooling.
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.
- Champion24.26%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Champion40
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Champion7
Zip codes with a Champion address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Champion — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.