Dresher, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $721,511 (+4.5% in a year), asking rent $2,751 . Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,084 (+122%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $31,222 +5%
- $690,290$721,511 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $170,143 +31%
- $551,368$721,511 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.
- Dresher$3,787
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Dresher, PA rose 4.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Dresher, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania
The Census does not count Dresher on its own, so the figures here are Montgomery County's. Half the county's households earn more than $113,915 a year and half less; 6% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 71% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 29% are rented. Unemployment in Montgomery County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Montgomery County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Dresher is a suburban community in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, north of Philadelphia. Across Montgomery County, most homes are lived in by their owners, and home values and rents are high. Winters are cold and summers are warm, with July the warmest month and January the coldest.
Work. Across Montgomery County, most adults hold a degree, and many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in manufacturing, or in banking, insurance and property. Unemployment has eased compared with a year earlier, while the number of jobs dipped slightly over the most recent year. Commutes are typically a short drive, and many residents work from home.
Things to do. The Philadelphia Museum of Art, a museum, is a longer drive away and is one of the best known art museums in the city. The Franklin Institute, also a museum, and the Philadelphia Zoo, a zoo, are both a longer drive away. Citizens Bank Park, a stadium, is also a longer drive away.
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- 335,505households
- 41.2median age
- 53%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 23%work from home
What people in Montgomery County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Montgomery County had 504,216 jobs in 2025, 0.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 40° and lows near 24°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 67°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Willow Grove Nas weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Montgomery County
- UGIFuel oil dealers, direct selling4,614
- SEI Investments CompanyInvestment funds, open-ended4,200
- Johnson JohnsonPharmaceutical office and sales4,020
- Adapt Health50473,660
- Abington Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital3,310FTE
- Lockheed MartinAircraft manufacturing2,832
- Jacent Strategic MerchandisingGeneral merchandise, nondurable goods, merchant wholesalers2,700
- CCA - Clinical Care Associates Of UphsGeneral medical and surgical hospitals2,636
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 911 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 163,991 people in all. 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 weatherVery high
- Strong windVery high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Montgomery County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Montgomery County and the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD metro.
Dresher home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Dresher$721,511
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Dresher13
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Dresher6
Zip codes with a Dresher address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Dresher — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.