Mahaffey, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $102,065 (+3.3% in a year). DuBois, PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — $54 (-9%) since Feb 2023.
- 1 year
- Up $3,291 +3%
- $98,773$102,065 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.
- Mahaffey$536
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Mahaffey, PA rose 3.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Mahaffey, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania
Mahaffey is a borough of 329 people in Clearfield County. 81% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 19% are rented. Unemployment in Clearfield County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had about as many jobs in 2025 as 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Mahaffey is a very small borough in Clearfield County, where nearly everyone owns the home they live in. Homes here cost far less than in most of the country, and relatively few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm without being hot; rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and transport, warehouses and utilities close behind. Across Clearfield County, the largest workplaces include Dubois Regional Medical Center, Walmart and DuBois Area Schools. Unemployment across the county is lower than it was a year ago, though the number of jobs has held about level.
Things to do. Gazzam Run, a river, is a short drive away. Prince Gallitzin State Park, a protected area, and Bilger's Rocks, a park, are both a longer drive away. Nearby woods and waterways give people room for walking and time outdoors in every season.
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- 147households
- 9%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Clearfield County had 29,242 jobs in 2025, about as many as the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 14°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 58°. About 63 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Grampian 1E weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Clearfield County
- Dubois Regional Medical CenterGeneral hospital2,040FTE
- WalmartGeneral warehousing and storage925
- DuBois Area SDSchool district558FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters384
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters370
- Clearfield Area SDSchool district349FTE
- Penn Highlands ClearfieldGeneral medical and surgical hospitals343
- Xylem DuBoisConsumption meters manufacturing265
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 75 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 8,654 people in all across the county; Mahaffey has none of its own. Hospitals come 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LightningRelatively 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 Mahaffey’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 Clearfield County and the DuBois, PA metro.
Mahaffey home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Mahaffey$102,065
- 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 Mahaffey address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mahaffey — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.