Cochranton, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $186,571 (+9.0% in a year). Meadville, PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$525 (+115%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $15,455 +9%
- $171,115$186,571 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $32,803 +21%
- $153,768$186,571 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.
- Cochranton$979
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 18 years.
Typical home values in Cochranton, PA rose 9.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Cochranton, Crawford County, Pennsylvania
Cochranton is a borough of 1,118 people in Crawford County. 69% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 31% are rented. Unemployment in Crawford County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% fewer 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Cochranton is a small borough in Crawford County, home to a close-knit community of residents. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and a four-year degree is held by a minority of adults. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and lows well below freezing, while July brings pleasantly warm days, and the year's rain and melted snow fall fairly evenly through the seasons.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, transport and warehouses, and the building trades also common. Across Crawford County, some of the largest workplaces are Meadville Medical Center, Crawford Central Schools and Allegheny College. Typical commutes are moderate, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Maurice K. Goddard State Park and the Erie National Wildlife Refuge are both protected areas a short drive away, good for walking and watching wildlife. Powdermill Run, a river, is also a short drive away. Farther afield, Conneaut Lake Park is an amusement park a longer drive away.
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- 471households
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Crawford County had 28,783 jobs in 2025, 0.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 60°. About 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Port Meadville Airport weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Crawford County
- Meadville Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,308FTE
- Meadville Medical Center- LibertyHospitals, general medical and surgical1,223
- The Arc of Crawford CountyActivity centers for disabled persons, the elderly, and persons diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities495
- Crawford Central SDSchool district469FTE
- Allegheny CollegeUniversity or college445
- Acutec Precision AerospaceAircraft assemblies, subassemblies, and parts manufacturing367
- Penncrest SDSchool district365FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters352
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 96 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 9,694 people in all across the county; Cochranton has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Cochranton’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Crawford County and the Meadville, PA metro.
Cochranton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Cochranton$186,571
- 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.
- Cochranton12
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Cochranton4
Zip codes with a Cochranton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Cochranton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.