Lilly, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $144,927 (+0.8% in a year). Johnstown, PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$125 (+20%) since Jul 2021.
- 1 year
- Up $1,202 +1%
- $143,725$144,927 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $51,142 -26%
- $196,068$144,927 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.
- Lilly$761
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Lilly, PA rose 0.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lilly, Cambria County, Pennsylvania
Lilly is a borough of 879 people in Cambria County. Half its households earn more than $61,719 a year and half less, against $58,418 across Cambria County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. 85% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 15% are rented. Unemployment in Cambria County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 1.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Lilly is a small borough in Cambria County, and a very small one, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run a little above the county's, and homes are modest in price. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are mild, with July the warmest. Rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, transport and warehousing, and shops also employing many. Across Cambria County, the largest workplaces include Memorial Medical Center, Saint Francis University and Lockheed Martin's Johnstown plant. Fewer adults here hold a four-year degree than in many places, and the typical commute is a fairly long one, with very few people working from home.
Things to do. The Johnstown Flood National Memorial, a protected area, is a short drive away, as is DeGol Field, a stadium. Chest Creek, a river, is also close by. For a longer drive, Blue Knob State Park offers a protected area of woods and hills to explore.
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- 349households
- 15%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 33 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Cambria County had 46,956 jobs in 2025, 1.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 33° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 79° and lows near 56°. About 80 inches of snow and 49 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Ebensburg Sewage Plt weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Cambria County
- Memorial Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,950FTE
- Saint Francis UniversityUniversity or college520
- Lockheed Martin Corporation Johnstown PA (2185)Aircraft assemblies, subassemblies, and parts manufacturing511
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters498
- Leonardo DRS - Johnstown FacilityManufacturing defense products352
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters318
- Greater Johnstown SDSchool district314FTE
- Mount Aloysius CollegeUniversity or college307
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 109 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 13,757 people in all across the county; Lilly has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Lilly’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 Cambria County and the Johnstown, PA metro.
Lilly home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lilly$144,927
- 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 Lilly address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lilly — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.