Clairton, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $156,390 (-3.2% in a year), asking rent $1,282 (+10.3%). Pittsburgh, PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$401 (+95%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $5,173 -3%
- $161,563$156,390 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $11,048 +8%
- $145,342$156,390 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.
- Clairton$821
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 47 years.
Typical home values in Clairton, PA fell 3.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Clairton, PA rose 10.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Clairton runs $96/mo less than renting one. The gap peaked at $161 in Jun 2026.
That is $1,186 a month against $1,282 rent: a $821 mortgage payment, plus $198 property tax and $167 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Clairton
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$1,186
- Renting$1,282
- Mortgage only$821
Property tax · $198/mo 1.52% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Allegheny County, PA
Insurance & upkeep · $167/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Clairton, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
Clairton is a city of 6,181 people in Allegheny County. Half its households earn more than $36,538 a year and half less, against $78,548 across Allegheny County; 33% of its people live below the poverty line. 61% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 39% are rented. Unemployment in Allegheny County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% fewer 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. Clairton is a small city in Allegheny County, and most homes there are lived in by their owners, which is a steadier mix than many people expect of a place with more renters nearby. Household incomes are well below the county's, and a larger share of people live below the poverty line than is typical. Homes are modest in price, and the typical monthly rent is lower than in many parts of the county. Winters are cold, with January highs just above freezing and nights well below it, while July brings warm days. Rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount across the year.
Work. Steel has long shaped work in Clairton, and United States Steel, which makes coke for iron and steel mills, is among the largest workplaces in the city. Clairton City Schools is another big employer. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in the building trades, and in professional and business services. The commute is a bit longer than the quick trips many small towns allow, and some people work from home.
Things to do. The Youghiogheny River is a short drive away, a pleasant place to walk or sit by the water. A longer drive brings you to Pittsburgh's better-known sights, including the Carnegie Museum of Natural History and the Andy Warhol Museum, and to stadiums such as Acrisure Stadium and PNC Park for football and baseball.
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- 2,715households
- 21%of adults have a degree
- 33%below the poverty line
- 31 mintypical commute
- 16%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Allegheny County had 670,169 jobs in 2025, 0.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 38° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 61°. About 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mckeesport weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Clairton
- United States SteelCoke oven products made in iron and steel mills1,149
- Clairton City SDSchool district99FTE
- ClairtonMail and parcel delivery27
- MPW Industrial Services, Inc. - US Steel ClairtonCleaning new building interiors immediately after construction21
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,197 people in all. School districts come 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 high
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Clairton’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 Allegheny County and the Pittsburgh, PA metro.
Clairton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Clairton$156,390
- Pennsylvania$287,078
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Clairton listings — the market is heating up.
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.
- Clairton27.85%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Clairton77
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Clairton20
Zip codes with a Clairton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Clairton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.