Dawson, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $155,862 (-3.1% in a year). Pittsburgh, PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$370 (+83%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $4,987 -3%
- $160,849$155,862 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $798 +1%
- $155,064$155,862 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.
- Dawson$818
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Dawson, PA fell 3.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Dawson, Fayette County, Pennsylvania
Dawson is a borough of 352 people in Fayette County. Unemployment in Fayette County was 5.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Fayette 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Dawson is a very small borough in Fayette County, with far fewer residents than most towns in the state. Home values here sit well below what is typical across the country, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest. Rain and melted snow fall fairly generously through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Fayette County, some of the largest workplaces are Uniontown Hospital, Connellsville Area Schools and Walmart. Unemployment across the county has eased a little over the past year, though the number of jobs there slipped slightly over the last year. The typical commute is a moderate one.
Things to do. Shady Grove Park is a park a short drive away, and Dunbar Creek, a river, is also close by. A longer drive brings you to Ohiopyle State Park, a protected area along the Youghiogheny River, and to Fallingwater, a museum.
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- 7%of adults have a degree
- 22 mintypical commute
What people in Fayette County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Fayette County had 37,808 jobs in 2025, 0.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 38° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 62°. About 24 inches of snow and 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Connellsville Ssw weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Fayette County
- NemacolinHotels1,469
- WVU MedicineHealthcare1,175
- Uniontown HospitalGeneral hospital778FTE
- Connellsville Area SDSchool district511FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters448
- Heartland FabricationBarge building399
- Albert Gallatin Area SDSchool district386FTE
- Sensus USAConsumption meters manufacturing380
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 72 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 8,859 people in all across the county; Dawson has none of its own. Hospitals come 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
FEMA rates every natural hazard here relatively low or very low.
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Dawson’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Fayette County and the Pittsburgh, PA metro.
Dawson home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Dawson$155,862
- 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 Dawson address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Dawson — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.