Elverson, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $486,315 (+4.4% in a year). Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,464 (+135%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $20,378 +4%
- $465,936$486,315 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $126,863 +35%
- $359,452$486,315 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.
- Elverson$2,553
- 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 Elverson, PA rose 4.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Elverson, Chester County, Pennsylvania
Elverson is a borough of 1,330 people in Chester County. Half its households earn more than $78,000 a year and half less, against $127,208 across Chester County; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. 71% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 29% are rented. Unemployment in Chester County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Elverson is a small borough in Chester County, and most of its homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes here run well below the county's, and the typical home is still valued at a good deal. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in professional and business services, shops and the building trades. A fair number work from home, and the usual trip to work is a moderate drive. Across Chester County, some of the largest workplaces are QVC, THE Chester County Hospital and West Chester University of Pennsylvania.
Things to do. Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site, a protected area, is a short drive away, as is French Creek State Park. State Game Lands Number 43 lies in or beside town, which puts open woodland close at hand. For a longer outing, Longwood Gardens, a botanical garden, is a longer drive away.
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- 664households
- 39%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 17%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Chester County had 253,659 jobs in 2025, 0.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 37° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 64°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hopewell Morgantown weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Chester County
- QVCTelevision order, home shopping3,505
- CubeSmartWarehousing, self storage3,348
- THE Chester County HospitalGeneral hospital2,218FTE
- West Chester University of PennsylvaniaUniversity or college1,844
- Downingtown Area SDSchool district1,802FTE
- Johnson JohnsonMed tech orthopedics1,577
- West Chester Area SDSchool district1,511FTE
- Paoli HospitalGeneral hospital1,362FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 459 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 63,589 people in all across the county; Elverson has two of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- DroughtRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively 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 Elverson’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Chester County and the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD metro.
Elverson home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Elverson$486,315
- 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.
- Elverson15
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Elverson7
Zip codes with a Elverson address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Elverson — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.