Freedom, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $260,824 (+0.3% in a year). Pittsburgh, PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$721 (+111%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $687 +0%
- $260,138$260,824 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $41,167 +19%
- $219,657$260,824 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.
- Freedom$1,369
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 20 years.
Typical home values in Freedom, PA rose 0.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Freedom, Beaver County, Pennsylvania
Freedom is a borough of 1,496 people in Beaver County. Half its households earn more than $74,327 a year and half less, against $71,089 across Beaver County. 65% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 35% are rented. Unemployment in Beaver County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Beaver County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Freedom is a small borough in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, with a population that is modest even by the standards of the area. More homes here are lived in by their owners than rented, and household incomes run a little above the county's. Homes are valued well within reach of many buyers, and few adults hold a four-year degree. 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 schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, manufacturing, and professional and business services. A share of people work from home. Across Beaver County, some of the largest workplaces are Heritage Valley Beaver, a general hospital, and the Beaver Valley Nuclear Power Plant, along with Lindy Paving. Unemployment in the county is lower than it was a year earlier, though the number of jobs has barely changed.
Things to do. The Beaver River runs in or beside town, a handy spot for a walk along the water. A longer drive brings you to Pittsburgh's well-known places, including the Andy Warhol Museum and the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. PNC Park, the baseball stadium, is also a longer drive away.
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- 625households
- 11%of adults have a degree
- 10%work from home
What people in Beaver County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Beaver County had 48,541 jobs in 2025, 0.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 36° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 61°. About 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Beaver Falls Northeast weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Beaver County
- Heritage Valley BeaverGeneral hospital1,028FTE
- Pennsylvania Cyber CS SchoolsSchool district762FTE
- Lindy PavingAsphalt paving695
- Beaver Valley Nuclear Power PlantElectric power generation, nuclear667
- McCarl'sMechanical contractors560
- VekaProfile shapes, nonrigid plastics, manufacturing552
- Shell Polymers MonacaEthylene made from refined petroleum or liquid hydrocarbons506
- EatonSwitchgear and switchboard apparatus mfg446
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 138 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 15,357 people in all across the county; Freedom has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) 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
FEMA rates every natural hazard here relatively low or very low.
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Freedom’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 Beaver County and the Pittsburgh, PA metro.
Freedom home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Freedom$260,824
- Pennsylvania$287,078
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Freedom 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.
- Freedom24.29%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Freedom32
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Freedom11
Zip codes with a Freedom address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Freedom — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.