Jacobus, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $335,243 (+4.5% in a year). York-Hanover, PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$982 (+126%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,501 +5%
- $320,742$335,243 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $81,899 +32%
- $253,344$335,243 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.
- Jacobus$1,760
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Jacobus, PA rose 4.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Jacobus, York County, Pennsylvania
Jacobus is a borough of 1,830 people in York County. Half its households earn more than $114,034 a year and half less, against $84,829 across York County; 2% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in York County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Jacobus is a small borough in York County, home to a modest number of residents. Household incomes here run well above the county's, and very few people live below the poverty line. Homes are valued on the higher side, and a good share of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and snow is a regular part of the season; summers are warm, with July the hottest, and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, professional and business services, restaurants and hotels, and manufacturing. Across York County, some of the biggest employers are York Hospital, BAE Systems and Harley-Davidson. The typical commute is a moderate one, and some residents work from home.
Things to do. Hersheypark, an amusement park, is a longer drive away. So is the National Watch and Clock Museum, a museum for anyone curious about timekeeping. For time outdoors, Samuel S. Lewis State Park, a protected area, is also a longer drive from town.
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- 707households
- 30%of adults have a degree
- 2%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. York County had 182,806 jobs in 2025, 0.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 41° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 63°. About 25 inches of snow and 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the York Ssw Pump Station weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in York County
- York HospitalGeneral hospital3,582FTE
- Comprehensive Logistics - YorkGeneral warehousing and storage2,324
- BAE SystemsArmored military vehicles and parts manufacturing1,970
- Kinsley ConstructionWarehouse, industrial, construction1,820
- Harley-DavidsonMotorcycles and parts manufacturing1,146
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage1,051
- FedExCourier and express delivery services987
- Storage Asset ManagementEquity real estate investment trusts, primarily leasing miniwarehouses and self-storage units960
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 516 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 76,359 people in all across the county; Jacobus has one 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- 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 Jacobus’ 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 York County and the York-Hanover, PA metro.
Jacobus home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Jacobus$335,243
- 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Jacobus address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Jacobus — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.