Denver, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $395,701 (+4.8% in a year), asking rent $1,392 . Lancaster, PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,185 (+133%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $18,294 +5%
- $377,407$395,701 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $103,477 +35%
- $292,224$395,701 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.
- Denver$2,077
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Denver, PA rose 4.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Denver, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
Denver is a borough of 3,792 people in Lancaster County. Half its households earn more than $85,531 a year and half less, against $86,959 across Lancaster County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. 74% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 26% are rented. Unemployment in Lancaster County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Denver is a borough in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, with a small-town scale and a population that sits in the middle years, neither especially young nor especially old. Household incomes run a little below the county's, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest. Rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, and in shops. Some of the biggest workplaces in town are Direct Wire D1, which makes copper shapes from purchased metal or scrap, Kalas Plant 1, a copper wire plant, and Weaver Industries, a machine shop. Many people reach work with a short drive, and some do their jobs from home.
Things to do. Cocalico Creek, a river in or beside town, is the closest place to spend time outdoors. A short drive away are Ephrata Cloister, a museum, and State Game Lands Number 274, a protected area. For a longer drive, Hersheypark and Dutch Wonderland are both amusement parks.
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- 1,405households
- 21%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lancaster County had 254,207 jobs in 2025, 0.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 40° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 65°. About 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lancaster Airport weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Denver
- Direct Wire D1Copper and copper-based shapes made from purchased metal or scrap149
- Kalas Plant 1Wire, copper, made from purchased copper in wire drawing plants86
- Weaver IndustriesMachine shops70
- Heck Construction CompanyCommercial building construction general contractors55
- Ephrata Precision PartsMachine shops52
- Denver Cold Storage, Inc Warehouse 2General warehousing and storage50
- Stevens Feed Mill, Inc. - DenverGrain mills, animal feed36
- DenverMail and parcel delivery32
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 9 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 557 people in all. 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively 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 Denver’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 Lancaster County and the Lancaster, PA metro.
Denver home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Denver$395,701
- 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.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Denver listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Denver23.05%
- United States26.36%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Denver22
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Denver13
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Denver$366,429
- United States$371,553
Zip codes with a Denver address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Denver — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.