Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $319,203 (+2.5% in a year), asking rent $1,682 (+3.6%). Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$992 (+145%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,913 +3%
- $311,290$319,203 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $74,511 +30%
- $244,691$319,203 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.
- Drexel Hill$1,675
- 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 Drexel Hill, PA rose 2.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Drexel Hill, PA rose 3.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Drexel Hill runs $826/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $920 in May 2024.
That is $2,508 a month against $1,682 rent: a $1,675 mortgage payment, plus $490 property tax and $342 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Drexel Hill
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$2,508
- Renting$1,682
- Mortgage only$1,675
Property tax · $490/mo 1.84% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Delaware County, PA
Insurance & upkeep · $342/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Drexel Hill, Delaware County, Pennsylvania
Drexel Hill, in Delaware County, had 29,181 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $88,168 a year and half less, against $89,546 across Delaware County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 63% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 37% are rented. Unemployment in Delaware County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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. Drexel Hill is a community in Delaware County, just outside Philadelphia. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes run a little below the county's. Residents are younger than in many suburbs, and a good share of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold and snowy, summers are warm, and rain and melted snow fall through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in professional and business services, shops, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Some of the largest workplaces in Drexel Hill are State Road Foods, a supermarket, Family First HomeCare, a home health care agency, and Reedman Toll Nissan of Drexel Hill, a car dealer. Commutes are fairly long, and a good number of people work from home. Across Delaware County, unemployment is lower than a year ago, and the number of jobs has edged up slightly.
Things to do. Independence Hall, the best-known place nearby, is a historic site from the nation's founding and a short drive away. The Philadelphia Museum of Art, also a short drive away, is one of the city's major museums. For a day out with family, the Philadelphia Zoo is a short drive away too.
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- 12,096households
- 46%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 31 mintypical commute
- 18%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Delaware County had 219,222 jobs in 2025, 0.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 41° and lows near 26°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 70°. About 23 inches of snow and 44 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Philadelphia International Airport weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Drexel Hill
- State Road FoodsSupermarkets250
- Family First HomeCareHome health care agencies83
- Reedman Toll Nissan of Drexel HillAutomobile dealers, new only or new and used46
- Wawa SiteConvenience store43
- Wawa SiteConvenience store38
- Wawa SiteConvenience store34
- Drexel HillMail and parcel delivery26
- Pilgrim GardensMail and parcel delivery25
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 545 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 in parts of Drexel HillRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Drexel Hill’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 Delaware County and the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD metro.
Drexel Hill home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Drexel Hill$319,203
- Pennsylvania$287,078
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Drexel Hill listings, and the typical home goes pending in 14 days — the market is cooling.
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.
- Drexel Hill29.26%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Drexel Hill14
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Drexel Hill82
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Drexel Hill33
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Drexel Hill$322,386
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Drexel Hill101.05%
Zip codes with a Drexel Hill address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Drexel Hill — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.