Hatfield, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $483,750 (+2.4% in a year), asking rent $1,517 (+0.4%). Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$173 (+7%) since Dec 2023.
- 1 year
- Up $11,230 +2%
- $472,520$483,750 since Sep 2025
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.
- Hatfield$2,539
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Hatfield, PA rose 2.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Hatfield, PA rose 0.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Hatfield runs $2,083/mo more than renting one — the widest that gap has been in this data.
That is $3,599 a month against $1,517 rent: a $2,539 mortgage payment, plus $542 property tax and $518 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Hatfield
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$3,599
- Renting$1,517
- Mortgage only$2,539
Property tax · $542/mo 1.35% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Montgomery County, PA
Insurance & upkeep · $518/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 Hatfield, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania
Hatfield is a borough of 3,496 people in Montgomery County. 48% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 52% 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 residents work in shops, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hatfield is a small borough in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. Residents tend to be somewhat younger than in many towns, and the borough has more renters than owners, which is the reverse of the pattern across much of the county. Household incomes run below the county's, and typical home values are well above what many older homeowners might expect for a borough this size. Winters are cold, with the coldest weather in January, summers are warm, and snow and rain both fall through the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in shops, in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, and in professional and business services. Among the largest workplaces in Hatfield are Brooks Instrument Hatfield, a maker of industrial flow instruments, and George Didden Greenhouses, a plant-growing business. Commutes are fairly short, and a good number of people work from home. A moderate share of adults hold a four-year degree.
Things to do. Hatfield sits within reach of Philadelphia, though each of these places is a longer drive away. Independence Hall is one of the best known historic sites in the country, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Franklin Institute are both major museums. Baseball and football fans can head to the stadiums, including Citizens Bank Park.
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- 1,392households
- 35%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 17 mintypical commute
- 16%work from home
What residents 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 38° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 63°. About 22 inches of snow and 52 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Sellersville weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hatfield
- Brooks Instrument HatfieldFlow instruments, industrial process-type, manufacturing381
- George Didden GreenhousesAgriculture production or harvesting crews38
- HatfieldMail and parcel delivery25
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 444 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
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively 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 Hatfield’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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 Montgomery County and the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD metro.
Hatfield home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hatfield$483,750
- Pennsylvania$287,078
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Hatfield 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.
- Hatfield35.08%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Hatfield29
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Hatfield12
Zip codes with a Hatfield address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hatfield — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.