Johnsonburg, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $78,487 (+12.8% in a year). St. Marys, PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$204 (+98%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,902 +13%
- $69,586$78,487 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $14,798 +23%
- $63,689$78,487 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.
- Johnsonburg$412
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Johnsonburg, PA rose 12.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Johnsonburg, Elk County, Pennsylvania
Johnsonburg is a borough of 2,404 people in Elk County. Half its households earn more than $61,484 a year and half less, against $66,380 across Elk County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. 70% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 30% are rented. Unemployment in Elk County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 1.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Johnsonburg is a small borough in Elk County, Pennsylvania, with a population that is small even by the standards of the area. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and typical home values are low compared with much of the country. Household incomes are somewhat below the county's, and a smaller share of adults hold a four-year degree than in many places. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers are warm, with July the warmest and a good amount of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Elk County, some of the largest workplaces are American Axle & Manufacturing Ridgway, Walmart and Owens-Brockway Glass Container. The county has lost a few jobs over the past year, and unemployment there has eased compared with a year earlier. A typical commute is about as long as in many small towns, and few people work from home.
Things to do. The outdoors is the main draw here. Bendigo State Park and Elk State Park, both protected areas, and East Branch Clarion River Lake, a reservoir, are all a short drive away. For a longer day out, Allegheny National Forest, a large protected area, is a longer drive away.
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- 1,023households
- 19%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Elk County had 13,101 jobs in 2025, 1.9% 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 56°. About 53 inches of snow and 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Ridgway weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Elk County
- American Axle & Manufacturing RidgwayPowder metallurgy products manufactured on a job or order basis385
- Johnsonburg0377
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters325
- Owens-Brockway Glass Container - Crenshaw Plant 19Beverage containers, glass, manufacturing300
- SGL CarbonGraphite specialties for aerospace use manufacturing275
- Keystone Powdered Metal CompanyPowder metallurgy products manufactured on a job or order basis260
- Saint Marys Area SDSchool district243FTE
- Penn Highlands ELKCritical access hospital229FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 56 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,544 people in all across the county; Johnsonburg has two of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals 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 high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Johnsonburg’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 Elk County and the St. Marys, PA metro.
Johnsonburg home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Johnsonburg$78,487
- 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 Johnsonburg address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Johnsonburg — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.