Commodore, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $133,531 (+11.8% in a year). Indiana, PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$364 (+108%) since Feb 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,134 +12%
- $119,397$133,531 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $27,682 +26%
- $105,849$133,531 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.
- Commodore$701
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Commodore, PA rose 11.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Commodore, Indiana County, Pennsylvania
Commodore, in Indiana County, had 284 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Indiana County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Indiana County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Commodore is a very small community in Indiana County, Pennsylvania, where everyone is likely to know one another. Homes here cost less than the typical American home, and household incomes across the county sit a little below the national picture. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month and highs staying just above freezing at best, while summers turn warm in July.
Work. Residents of the area work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in shops, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and in manufacturing. Across Indiana County, the largest workplaces include Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana Regional Medical Center and Indiana Area Schools. The county has added a few more jobs than a year earlier, though unemployment is lower now than it was a year ago.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Yellow Creek State Park is a protected area a longer drive away, and Prince Gallitzin State Park is another. The Johnstown Flood National Memorial, also a protected area, lies a longer drive away as well. Winter brings plenty of snow, so it is worth planning trips with the season in mind.
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What people in Indiana County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Indiana County had 28,044 jobs in 2025, 0.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 36° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 59°. About 46 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Indiana Southeast weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Indiana County
- Indiana University of PennsylvaniaUniversity or college1,166
- Indiana Regional Medical CenterGeneral hospital849FTE
- Diamond Pharmacy ServicesDruggists' sundries merchant wholesalers803
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters423
- Indiana Area SDSchool district343FTE
- Specialty Tires of AmericaTires manufacturing332
- BAYADA Home Health CareHome health care295
- River Valley SDSchool district264FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 67 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 7,902 people in all across the county; Commodore has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals 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
- LightningRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Commodore’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 Indiana County and the Indiana, PA metro.
Commodore home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Commodore$133,531
- 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.
Zip codes with a Commodore address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Commodore — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.