Dauphin, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $299,744 (+3.5% in a year). Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$879 (+127%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,119 +3%
- $289,625$299,744 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $77,567 +35%
- $222,177$299,744 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.
- Dauphin$1,573
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Dauphin, PA rose 3.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Dauphin, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania
Dauphin is a borough of 795 people in Dauphin County. Unemployment in Dauphin County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Dauphin 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Dauphin is a small borough on the Susquehanna River's edge, with a population far smaller than most towns around it. Home values here run below what many nearby communities see, though the county's household incomes are comfortable. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and a fair amount of snow, while summers turn properly warm by July, and rain and melted snow add up to a generous amount over the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, professional and business services, and government also employing a good number. Across Dauphin County, the largest workplaces include the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, UPMC Pinnacle Hospitals and the Hersheypark Entertainment Complex. A typical commute is fairly short, and a good number of people work from home. Unemployment across the county has eased compared with a year earlier, and the number of jobs has held roughly steady.
Things to do. Water is close at hand: Stony Creek and Fishing Creek run in or beside town, and the Juniata River is a short drive away. Also a short drive off, City Island is a garden spot and FNB Field is a stadium. For a bigger outing, Hersheypark, an amusement park, is a longer drive away.
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- 19 mintypical commute
- 16%work from home
What people in Dauphin County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Dauphin County had 190,394 jobs in 2025, 0.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 37° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 65°. About 24 inches of snow and 45 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Harrisburg Northeast weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Dauphin County
- Milton S. Hershey Medical CenterGeneral hospital6,685FTE
- Upmc Pinnacle HospitalsGeneral hospital4,482FTE
- Hersheypark Entertainment ComplexAmusement and theme parks2,950
- UPSCouriers and express delivery services2,941
- Pinnacle Health Medical ServicesOffices of physicians2,368
- Harrisburg Area Community CollegeTwo-year college2,087
- Commonwealth Charter Academy CSSchool district1,799FTE
- Central Dauphin SDSchool district1,789FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 303 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 57,633 people in all across the county; Dauphin has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) 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 high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Dauphin’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 Dauphin County and the Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA metro.
Dauphin home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Dauphin$299,744
- Pennsylvania$287,078
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
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.
- Dauphin8
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Dauphin address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Dauphin — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.