Lawrence, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $290,242 (+5.9% in a year). Pittsburgh, PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$183 (+14%) since Jan 2024.
- 1 year
- Up $16,052 +6%
- $274,190$290,242 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.
- Lawrence$1,523
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Lawrence, PA rose 5.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lawrence, Washington County, Pennsylvania
Lawrence, in Washington County, had 1,236 people in the 2020 census. 90% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 10% are rented. Unemployment in Washington County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 2.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Washington County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Lawrence is a small community in Washington County, Pennsylvania, with a population that fits easily into a few quiet streets. Nearly all of its homes are lived in by their owners, far more than is typical across the country, and the typical home value sits well within reach for many buyers. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and a good deal of snow, and summers are warm in July without turning extreme.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, professional and business services, and manufacturing. Across Washington County, the largest workplaces include Pennsylvania Western University, UPMC Washington and Canon-McMillan Schools. Unemployment across the county is lower than it was a year earlier, and the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. The nearest well-known places are a longer drive away, mostly in and around Pittsburgh. The Andy Warhol Museum and the Carnegie Museum of Art are museums worth a visit, and PNC Park is a stadium among the best known. The Ohio River is also a longer drive away for time by the water.
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What people in Washington County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Washington County had 89,399 jobs in 2025, 2.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 37° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 62°. About 32 inches of snow and 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Washington Northeast weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Washington County
- Pennsylvania Western UniversityUniversity or college1,537
- Songer ServicesAddition, alteration and renovation, general contractors, industrial building1,319
- Upmc WashingtonGeneral hospital1,306FTE
- Lighthouse Electric CompanyElectrical contractors1,024
- Canon-McMillan SDSchool district676FTE
- Campbell Transportation Company (Vessel Operations)Freight transportation, inland waters672
- Monongahela Valley HospitalGeneral hospital668FTE
- Penn EntertainmentCasino hotels663
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 198 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 27,053 people in all across the county; Lawrence has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts 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
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Lawrence’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 Washington County and the Pittsburgh, PA metro.
Lawrence home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lawrence$290,242
- 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.
Zip codes with a Lawrence address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lawrence — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.