Marietta, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $312,899 (+4.5% in a year), asking rent $1,659 . Lancaster, PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$943 (+135%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $13,437 +4%
- $299,462$312,899 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $84,342 +37%
- $228,557$312,899 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.
- Marietta$1,642
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Marietta, PA rose 4.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Marietta, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
Marietta is a borough of 2,623 people in Lancaster County. Half its households earn more than $54,167 a year and half less, against $86,959 across Lancaster County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. 62% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 38% are rented. Unemployment in Lancaster County was 3.2% 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Marietta is a small borough in Lancaster County, with a population that skews older than a typical American town. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and a good number of residents have a four-year degree, though not most. Household incomes run well below the county's, and typical home values sit comfortably above typical rents once you compare a year of each. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers turn warm in July. Snow falls through the winter, and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in manufacturing, restaurants and hotels, and shops. Across Lancaster County, some of the largest workplaces are Lancaster General Hospital, Lancaster Schools and Dart Container Corporation in Leola. Unemployment across the county is lower than it was a year ago, and the county has added a few more jobs over the past year. The typical commute is a moderate drive, and some residents work from home.
Things to do. Donegal Creek runs in or beside town, and Chiques Creek and Samuel S. Lewis State Park are a short drive away for time near the water and the woods. The National Watch and Clock Museum is also a short drive away. Hersheypark, an amusement park, is a longer drive away.
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- 1,406households
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lancaster County had 254,207 jobs in 2025, 0.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 37° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 61°. About 23 inches of snow and 45 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Landisville Northwest weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lancaster County
- Lancaster General HospitalGeneral hospital6,205FTE
- Lancaster SDSchool district1,570FTE
- Dart Container Corporation - LeolaFoam polystyrene products manufacturing1,179
- TAIT GlobalIndustrial design consulting services1,093
- Armstrong World Industries, Inc. - Corporate CampusNovelties, not specified elsewhere, manufacturing1,053
- Acme MarketsGeneral warehousing and storage986
- Campbells SoupBakery products, dry, manufacturing929
- Millersville University of PennsylvaniaUniversity or college921
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 709 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 89,863 people in all across the county; Marietta has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Marietta’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 Lancaster County and the Lancaster, PA metro.
Marietta home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Marietta$312,899
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Marietta18
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Marietta12
Zip codes with a Marietta address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Marietta — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.