Lower Burrell, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $212,098 (+3.5% in a year). Pittsburgh, PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$608 (+120%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,115 +3%
- $204,983$212,098 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $46,080 +28%
- $166,018$212,098 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.
- Lower Burrell$1,113
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Lower Burrell, PA rose 3.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lower Burrell, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania
Lower Burrell is a city of 11,758 people in Westmoreland County. Half its households earn more than $84,602 a year and half less, against $74,109 across Westmoreland County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 84% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 16% are rented. Unemployment in Westmoreland County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Lower Burrell is a small city where most homes are lived in by their owners, a far higher share than is usual across the country. Residents tend to be older than in most places, and household incomes sit above the county's, with relatively few people living below the poverty line. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm without being extreme.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and the building trades also common. Across Westmoreland County, larger workplaces include Westmoreland Regional Hospital, Elliott Group, which makes compressors, and UPS. Commutes are of middling length, and some residents work from home.
Things to do. The city's nearby places are mostly a longer drive away, toward Pittsburgh and its rivers. The Ohio River and the Allegheny River are among the best known, and for a day out the Carnegie Museum of Natural History and Acrisure Stadium are on the same list. Each is a longer drive, so these suit planned trips more than quick evenings out.
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- 5,212households
- 33%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Westmoreland County had 128,972 jobs in 2025, 0.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 36° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 63°. About 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Natrona Lock weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Westmoreland County
- Penn Line Tree ServiceTree and brush trimming, overhead utility line1,772
- UPSCouriers and express delivery services1,549
- Cleveland Brothers Equipment CompanyAgricultural machinery and equipment repair and maintenance services1,433
- Westmoreland Regional HospitalGeneral hospital1,308FTE
- Elliott GroupCompressors, air and gas, general purpose-type, manufacturing1,033
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage941
- LeedsworldLabels, textile, merchant wholesalers770
- Latrobe Area HospitalGeneral hospital702FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 323 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 46,068 people in all across the county; Lower Burrell has one of its own. Hospitals come 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 in parts of Lower BurrellRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively 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 Lower Burrell’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 Westmoreland County and the Pittsburgh, PA metro.
Lower Burrell home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lower Burrell$212,098
- Pennsylvania$287,078
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Lower Burrell listings — the market is cooling.
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.
- Lower Burrell32.62%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Lower Burrell45
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Lower Burrell16
Zip codes with a Lower Burrell address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lower Burrell — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.