Dover, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $294,559 (+2.5% in a year), asking rent $1,543 . York-Hanover, PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$167 (+12%) since Jan 2024.
- 1 year
- Up $7,314 +3%
- $287,244$294,559 since Sep 2025
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.
- Dover$1,546
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Dover, PA rose 2.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Dover, York County, Pennsylvania
Dover is a borough of 1,954 people in York County. Half its households earn more than $75,347 a year and half less, against $84,829 across York County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in York County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in shops, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Dover is a small borough in York County, Pennsylvania, with a population on the smaller side. Household incomes here run below the county's, and typical home prices and rents are fairly high next to those incomes. Winters are cold and summers warm, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Many residents work in shops, in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, and in the building trades. Commutes are a little longer than a short hop across town, and few people work from home. Across York County, some of the largest workplaces are York Hospital, BAE Systems and Harley-Davidson.
Things to do. Gifford Pinchot State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away and suits a walk or a day outdoors. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to Hersheypark, an amusement park, and to the State Museum of Pennsylvania, a museum for a quieter day out.
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- 785households
- 17%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. York County had 182,806 jobs in 2025, 0.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 39° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 63°. About 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the York Airport weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in York County
- York HospitalGeneral hospital3,582FTE
- Comprehensive Logistics - YorkGeneral warehousing and storage2,324
- BAE SystemsArmored military vehicles and parts manufacturing1,970
- Kinsley ConstructionWarehouse, industrial, construction1,820
- Harley-DavidsonMotorcycles and parts manufacturing1,146
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage1,051
- FedExCourier and express delivery services987
- Storage Asset ManagementEquity real estate investment trusts, primarily leasing miniwarehouses and self-storage units960
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 516 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 76,359 people in all across the county; Dover has two of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Dover’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 York County and the York-Hanover, PA metro.
Dover home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Dover$294,559
- 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 Dover listings, and the typical home goes pending in 8 days — the market is heating up.
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.
- Dover23.86%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Dover8
- United States24
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Dover45
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Dover25
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Dover101.10%
Zip codes with a Dover address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Dover — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.