Havertown, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $533,494 (+4.6% in a year), asking rent $2,117 . Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,582 (+130%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $23,458 +5%
- $510,036$533,494 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $140,698 +36%
- $392,796$533,494 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.
- Havertown$2,800
- 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 Havertown, PA rose 4.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Havertown, Delaware County, Pennsylvania
The Census does not count Havertown on its own, so the figures here are Delaware County's. Half the county's households earn more than $89,546 a year and half less; 10% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 70% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 30% 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 people in Delaware County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Havertown is a residential town in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, within easy reach of the city of Philadelphia. Across Delaware County, most homes are lived in by their owners, and many adults hold a university degree. Winters are cold with snow in most years, summers are warm, and rain falls steadily through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in professional and business services. Shops, banks, insurance and property firms also employ many local people. Across the county, jobs grew slightly over the past year, and unemployment has eased compared with a year earlier.
Things to do. Independence Hall, an archaeological site, is a short drive away, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art is a short drive off as well. For a day out with children, the Philadelphia Zoo is also a short drive away.
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- 216,946households
- 39.1median age
- 42%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 18%work from home
What people in Delaware County 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 42° and lows near 28°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 71°. About 16 inches of snow and 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Phila Franklin Inst weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Delaware County
- Villanova UniversityUniversity or college3,306
- The Boeing CompanyAircraft manufacturing3,071
- Contemporary Services2,644
- Crozer Chester Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,932FTE
- Lower Merion SDSchool district1,636FTE
- Widener UniversityUniversity or college1,428
- Upper Darby SDSchool district1,249FTE
- Elwyn Media CampusGroup homes, intellectual and developmental disability1,152
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 380 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 48,480 people in all. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Delaware County, 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 Delaware County and the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD metro.
Havertown home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Havertown$533,494
- Pennsylvania$287,078
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Havertown listings, and the typical home goes pending in 10 days — 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.
- Havertown32.81%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Havertown10
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Havertown64
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Havertown29
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Havertown$527,965
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Havertown103.51%
Zip codes with a Havertown address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Havertown — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.