McKeesport, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $93,557 (-4.4% in a year), asking rent $1,054 (+1.3%). Pittsburgh, PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$250 (+104%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $4,323 -4%
- $97,881$93,557 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $1,027 +1%
- $92,530$93,557 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.
- McKeesport$491
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in McKeesport, PA fell 4.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in McKeesport, PA rose 1.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in McKeesport runs $344/mo less than renting one. The gap peaked at $411 in Mar 2026.
That is $709 a month against $1,054 rent: a $491 mortgage payment, plus $118 property tax and $100 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — McKeesport
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$709
- Renting$1,054
- Mortgage only$491
Property tax · $118/mo 1.52% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Allegheny County, PA
Insurance & upkeep · $100/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in McKeesport, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
McKeesport is a city of 17,727 people in Allegheny County. Half its households earn more than $34,219 a year and half less, against $78,548 across Allegheny County; 32% of its people live below the poverty line. 51% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 49% are rented. Unemployment in Allegheny County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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. McKeesport is a small city on the Youghiogheny River, in Allegheny County. Incomes here run well below the county's, and a good share of households live below the poverty line. Owners and renters share the housing more evenly than in much of the county, which has more homes lived in by their owners. A typical home costs far less than in much of the region, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold and the summers warm, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, and others in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, professional and business services, or shops. Among the largest workplaces in McKeesport are UPMC McKeesport, a general hospital, along with the wider University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and Ryco, a plumbing contractor. The typical commute is a moderate one, and some people work from home. Jobs across the county have held about steady, and unemployment in Allegheny County is lower than it was a year earlier.
Things to do. The Youghiogheny River runs in or beside town, a natural place for a walk along the water. A short drive away are the Carnegie Museum of Natural History and the Carnegie Museum of Art. A longer drive brings you to the Andy Warhol Museum, devoted to one of the best known artists of the twentieth century.
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- 7,668households
- 11%of adults have a degree
- 32%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Allegheny County had 670,169 jobs in 2025, 0.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 38° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 61°. About 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mckeesport weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in McKeesport
- Upmc MckeesportGeneral hospital636FTE
- University of Pittsburgh Medical CenterOutpatient mental health and substance abuse centers318
- RycoPlumbing contractors167
- Pennsylvania Coach - McKeesportSchool bus services130
- AI SolutionsLow voltage electrical work100
- Duquesne Light CompanyDistribution of electric power73
- Krise TransportationSchool bus_student transportation69
- MckeesportMail and parcel delivery68
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 13 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,857 people in all. 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
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in McKeesport’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 Allegheny County and the Pittsburgh, PA metro.
McKeesport home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- McKeesport$93,557
- Pennsylvania$287,078
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 McKeesport listings, and the typical home goes pending in 21 days — 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.
- McKeesport32.06%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- McKeesport21
- United States24
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- McKeesport160
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- McKeesport31
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- McKeesport$112,985
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a McKeesport address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls McKeesport — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in McKeesport
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15132 | Mckeesport | 18,898 | $976 | $69,810 |
| 15133 | Mckeesport | 6,112 | $1,053 | $115,402 |
| 15135 | Mckeesport | 4,859 | — | $202,388 |