Markleysburg, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $170,735 (-1.5% in a year). Pittsburgh, PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$389 (+77%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $2,649 -2%
- $173,383$170,735 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $6,907 +4%
- $163,827$170,735 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.
- Markleysburg$896
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 84 years.
Typical home values in Markleysburg, PA fell 1.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Markleysburg, Fayette County, Pennsylvania
Markleysburg is a borough of 246 people in Fayette County. Unemployment in Fayette County was 5.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Fayette County work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Markleysburg is a very small borough in Fayette County, with far fewer people than most towns in the state. Homes here are valued below what is typical in many parts of the country, and across the county household incomes are modest. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and a good deal of snow falls each year. Summers are warm, with July the warmest, and rain and melted snow are fairly plentiful through the year.
Work. People here work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, manufacturing, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Fayette County, some of the largest workplaces are Nemacolin, a hotel and resort, WVU Medicine, and Uniontown Hospital. Few adults in town hold a four-year degree, and some people work from home. Across the county, unemployment has eased over the past year, though the number of jobs has slipped slightly.
Things to do. Ohiopyle State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away, as is Fort Necessity National Battlefield, an archaeological site. Youghiogheny River Lake, a reservoir, is also a short drive away. Fallingwater, a museum, is a longer drive away.
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- 9%of adults have a degree
- 10%work from home
What people in Fayette County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Fayette County had 37,808 jobs in 2025, 0.2% fewer 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 60°. About 61 inches of snow and 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Confluence Southwest Dam weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Fayette County
- NemacolinHotels1,469
- WVU MedicineHealthcare1,175
- Uniontown HospitalGeneral hospital778FTE
- Connellsville Area SDSchool district511FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters448
- Heartland FabricationBarge building399
- Albert Gallatin Area SDSchool district386FTE
- Sensus USAConsumption meters manufacturing380
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 72 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 8,859 people in all across the county; Markleysburg has one 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
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively 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 Markleysburg’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 Fayette County and the Pittsburgh, PA metro.
Markleysburg home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Markleysburg$170,735
- 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 Markleysburg address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Markleysburg — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.