Hunker, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $222,763 (-3.7% in a year). Pittsburgh, PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — $130 (-10%) since Nov 2023.
- 1 year
- Down $8,494 -4%
- $231,257$222,763 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.
- Hunker$1,169
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Hunker, PA fell 3.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hunker, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania
Hunker is a borough of 310 people in Westmoreland County. 93% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 7% are rented. Unemployment in Westmoreland County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Westmoreland County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hunker is a very small borough in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, with far fewer people than most towns. Nearly everyone who lives here owns their home, and few households live below the poverty line. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than is typical, and winters are cold, with plenty of snow, while summers are warm.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in manufacturing, shops and professional and business services. Few people work from home, and the typical commute is a fairly short drive. Across Westmoreland County, some of the biggest workplaces are Westmoreland Regional Hospital, UPS and Elliott Group.
Things to do. Pittsburgh and its rivers lie a longer drive away. The Andy Warhol Museum and the Carnegie Museum of Art are museums in the city, and PNC Park is a stadium there. Fallingwater, the museum house, is also a longer drive away.
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- 10%of adults have a degree
- 3%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What people in Westmoreland County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Westmoreland County had 128,972 jobs in 2025, 0.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 37° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 60°. About 30 inches of snow and 44 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mount Pleasant weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Westmoreland County
- Penn Line Tree ServiceTree and brush trimming, overhead utility line1,772
- UPSCouriers and express delivery services1,549
- Cleveland Brothers Equipment CompanyAgricultural machinery and equipment repair and maintenance services1,433
- Westmoreland Regional HospitalGeneral hospital1,308FTE
- Elliott GroupCompressors, air and gas, general purpose-type, manufacturing1,033
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage941
- LeedsworldLabels, textile, merchant wholesalers770
- Latrobe Area HospitalGeneral hospital702FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 323 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 46,068 people in all across the county; Hunker has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Hunker’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 Westmoreland County and the Pittsburgh, PA metro.
Hunker home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hunker$222,763
- 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.
- Hunker6
Zip codes with a Hunker address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hunker — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.