Chicora, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $220,125 (-2.8% in a year). Pittsburgh, PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — $167 (-13%) since Oct 2023.
- 1 year
- Down $6,376 -3%
- $226,502$220,125 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.
- Chicora$1,155
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Chicora, PA fell 2.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Chicora, Butler County, Pennsylvania
Chicora is a borough of 916 people in Butler County. 77% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 23% are rented. Unemployment in Butler County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Chicora is a small borough in Butler County, home to fewer people than most towns of its kind. Most homes here are lived in by their owners, and the share of residents living below the poverty line is modest. Winters are colder than in much of the country and bring a good deal of snow, while summers are warm. Rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, and in government. Across Butler County, some of the largest workplaces are Butler Memorial Hospital, Cleveland-Cliffs Butler Works and Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than is typical, the commute is a long one, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Connoquenessing Creek and Bear Creek are both rivers a short drive away, and State Game Lands Number 105 is a protected area just as close. For a longer outing, Moraine State Park is a protected area a longer drive away, and the Jennings Environmental Education Center sits in that same longer-drive range.
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- 361households
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 32 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Butler County had 89,077 jobs in 2025, 0.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 34° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 58°. About 35 inches of snow and 43 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Butler Southwest weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Butler County
- Limbach Facility ServicesCorporate offices1,647
- Butler Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital1,422FTE
- Cleveland-Cliffs Butler WorksSteel mills1,137
- The Pittsburgh Paints CoPaints merchant wholesalers1,122
- Slippery Rock University of PennsylvaniaUniversity or college953
- Seneca Valley SDSchool district866FTE
- ALL Butler Medical ProvidersPhysicians' offices766
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs766
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 226 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 30,318 people in all across the county; Chicora has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- LightningRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Chicora’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 Butler County and the Pittsburgh, PA metro.
Chicora home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Chicora$220,125
- Pennsylvania$287,078
- United States$366,157
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.
- Chicora17
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Chicora5
Zip codes with a Chicora address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Chicora — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.