Jamestown, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $163,445 (-2.0% in a year). Meadville, PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — $29 (-3%) since Jan 2024.
- 1 year
- Down $3,270 -2%
- $166,715$163,445 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.
- Jamestown$858
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Jamestown, PA fell 2.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Jamestown, Crawford County, Pennsylvania
Jamestown is a borough of 582 people in Crawford County. Half its households earn more than $44,688 a year and half less, against $60,476 across Crawford County; 14% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Crawford 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 Crawford 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Jamestown is a small borough in Crawford County, in the northwest corner of Pennsylvania, home to a very small number of residents. Household incomes here run below the county's, and typical home values are modest. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while July is the warmest and brings warm days; precipitation is spread through the year, and snowfall is heavy.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment also employing many. Across Crawford County, the largest workplaces include Meadville Medical Center, Crawford Central Schools and Allegheny College. Few people work from home, and the typical commute is a fairly long one by small-town standards.
Things to do. Pymatuning Reservoir lies in or beside town, and Pymatuning State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to Conneaut Lake Park, an amusement park, and the Butler Institute of American Art, a museum.
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- 322households
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 1%work from home
What people in Crawford County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Crawford County had 28,783 jobs in 2025, 0.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 34° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 59°. About 62 inches of snow and 44 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Jamestown Northwest weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Crawford County
- Meadville Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,308FTE
- Meadville Medical Center- LibertyHospitals, general medical and surgical1,223
- The Arc of Crawford CountyActivity centers for disabled persons, the elderly, and persons diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities495
- Crawford Central SDSchool district469FTE
- Allegheny CollegeUniversity or college445
- Acutec Precision AerospaceAircraft assemblies, subassemblies, and parts manufacturing367
- Penncrest SDSchool district365FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters352
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 96 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 9,694 people in all across the county; Jamestown has two of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- LightningRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Jamestown’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 Crawford County and the Meadville, PA metro.
Jamestown home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Jamestown$163,445
- Pennsylvania$287,078
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Jamestown 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.
- Jamestown29.60%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Jamestown20
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Jamestown6
Zip codes with a Jamestown address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Jamestown — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.