Kennett Square, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $627,116 (+2.8% in a year), asking rent $2,330 (+3.6%). Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,796 (+120%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $17,134 +3%
- $609,982$627,116 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $144,848 +30%
- $482,268$627,116 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.
- Kennett Square$3,292
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Kennett Square, PA rose 2.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Kennett Square, PA rose 3.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Kennett Square runs $2,242/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $2,299 in Jan 2025.
That is $4,571 a month against $2,330 rent: a $3,222 mortgage payment, plus $678 property tax and $671 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Kennett Square
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$4,571
- Renting$2,330
- Mortgage only$3,222
Property tax · $678/mo 1.30% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Chester County, PA
Insurance & upkeep · $671/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Kennett Square, Chester County, Pennsylvania
Kennett Square is a borough of 5,936 people in Chester County. Half its households earn more than $80,505 a year and half less, against $127,208 across Chester County; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Chester County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, 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. Kennett Square is a small borough in Chester County, with a median age somewhat younger than many American towns. Household incomes in town run well below the county's, and homes and rents are priced like those in much of the Philadelphia area. Winters are cold and summers warm, with rain and melted snow spread fairly evenly through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, professional and business services, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Among the largest workplaces in town are Kennett Consolidated Schools, Krapf School Bus, and Wawa. A typical commute is fairly short, and a modest share of people work from home. Across Chester County, unemployment has eased compared with a year earlier, and the county has added a few more jobs.
Things to do. Longwood Gardens, a botanical garden, sits in or beside town, as does Red Clay Creek, a river. A short drive away are Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library, another botanical garden, and the Brandywine Museum of Art. For a bigger outing, the Philadelphia Museum of Art is a longer drive away.
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- 2,209households
- 37%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Chester County had 253,659 jobs in 2025, 0.9% 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 84° and lows near 64°. About 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Avondale North weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Kennett Square
- Kennett Consolidated SDSchool district443FTE
- Krapf School Bus-GKJ, Inc - KENNETT SQUAREBus operation, school and employee113
- Wawa SiteConvenience store37
- BB FermentationBreweries35
- Kennett SquareMail and parcel delivery30
- Compass Group24
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 239 people in all. School districts come 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively 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 Kennett Square’s 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 Chester County and the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD metro.
Kennett Square home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Kennett Square$627,116
- Pennsylvania$287,078
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Kennett Square listings, and the typical home goes pending in 9 days — 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.
- Kennett Square23.67%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Kennett Square50
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Kennett Square24
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Kennett Square$577,249
- United States$371,407
Zip codes with a Kennett Square address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Kennett Square — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.