Gap, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $473,797 (+4.2% in a year). Lancaster, PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,408 (+131%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $19,073 +4%
- $454,724$473,797 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $124,537 +36%
- $349,260$473,797 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.
- Gap$2,487
- 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 Gap, PA rose 4.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Gap, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
Gap, in Lancaster County, had 2,186 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $87,500 a year and half less, against $86,959 across Lancaster County; 4% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Lancaster County was 3.2% 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Gap is a small community in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Household incomes here are close to the county's, and relatively few people live below the poverty line. Winters are cold, with a good deal of snow, and summers are warm; across the year the town gets plenty of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and in the building trades. Among the larger workplaces in Gap are Weis Markets, Pine Hill Manufacturing and Wawa. Most people commute a moderate distance to work, and only a small share work from home.
Things to do. The Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania and the National Toy Train Museum, both railway-themed museums, are a short drive away. For a longer outing, Longwood Gardens is a botanical garden and Dutch Wonderland is an amusement park, both a longer drive away. The Ephrata Cloister, also a museum, is a longer drive as well.
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- 756households
- 26%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lancaster County had 254,207 jobs in 2025, 0.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 39° and lows near 24°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 66°. About 34 inches of snow and 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the New Holland Southeast weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Gap
- Weis MarketsSupermarkets and other grocery97
- Pine Hill ManufacturingUtility trailers manufacturing88
- Gap Power Rentals PlusHandtools, power-driven, repair and maintenance services retailing new power-driven handtools65
- Wawa SiteConvenience store44
- CMCPlumbing and heating contractors38
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 332 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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Gap’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 Lancaster County and the Lancaster, PA metro.
Gap home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Gap$473,797
- 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.
- Gap5
Zip codes with a Gap address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Gap — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.