Highspire, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $193,354 (+2.5% in a year). Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$647 (+176%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,637 +2%
- $188,717$193,354 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $64,701 +50%
- $128,652$193,354 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.
- Highspire$1,015
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 9 years.
Typical home values in Highspire, PA rose 2.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Highspire, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania
Highspire is a borough of 2,741 people in Dauphin County. Half its households earn more than $52,618 a year and half less, against $76,242 across Dauphin County; 14% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Dauphin County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in transport and warehouses, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Highspire is a small borough in Dauphin County, with a compact population and homes that cost less than in many parts of the region. Household incomes run well below the county's, and a good number of residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold, with a fair amount of snow, and summers turn hot, so it is a place with distinct seasons.
Work. Many residents work in transport, warehouses and utilities, in shops, in schools, hospitals and social care, and in manufacturing. Across Dauphin County, the largest workplaces include the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, UPMC Pinnacle Hospitals and the Hersheypark Entertainment Complex. Job numbers across the county have held roughly steady over the past year, and a typical commute is a fairly short one.
Things to do. Hersheypark, an amusement park, is a short drive away, as is City Island, a garden by the river. The State Museum of Pennsylvania is also a short drive away, and the Juniata River is a longer drive for those who want time on the water.
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- 1,340households
- 13%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Dauphin County had 190,394 jobs in 2025, 0.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 39° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 68°. About 30 inches of snow and 44 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Middletown Harrisburg International Airport weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Dauphin County
- Milton S. Hershey Medical CenterGeneral hospital6,685FTE
- Upmc Pinnacle HospitalsGeneral hospital4,482FTE
- Hersheypark Entertainment ComplexAmusement and theme parks2,950
- UPSCouriers and express delivery services2,941
- Pinnacle Health Medical ServicesOffices of physicians2,368
- Harrisburg Area Community CollegeTwo-year college2,087
- Commonwealth Charter Academy CSSchool district1,799FTE
- Central Dauphin SDSchool district1,789FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 303 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 57,633 people in all across the county; Highspire has one 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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Highspire’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 Dauphin County and the Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA metro.
Highspire home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Highspire$193,354
- 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.
- Highspire12
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Highspire address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Highspire — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.