McVeytown, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $217,555 (+5.9% in a year). Lewistown, PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$678 (+146%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,083 +6%
- $205,471$217,555 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $60,404 +38%
- $157,150$217,555 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.
- McVeytown$1,142
- 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 McVeytown, PA rose 5.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in McVeytown, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania
McVeytown is a borough of 344 people in Mifflin County. Unemployment in Mifflin County was 3.1% in August 2026, and the county had 1.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Mifflin County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. McVeytown is a small borough in Mifflin County, home to a population that skews older than the typical American community. The typical home here is worth less than in much of the country, and fewer residents live below the poverty line than you might expect for a town this size. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and a good deal of snow, while summers turn warm, with July the warmest.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and the building trades also employing many. Across Mifflin County, the largest workplaces include Mifflin County Schools, Geisinger Lewistown Hospital and First Quality Retail Services. Commutes are on the long side, and a fair number of people work from home.
Things to do. Fort Granville, a historic fort, is a short drive away. Farther afield, Raystown Lake is a large reservoir for time on the water, and Rothrock State Forest is a protected area of woodland. Greenwood Furnace State Park, an archaeological site with an iron-making past, is also a longer drive away.
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- 6%below the poverty line
- 32 mintypical commute
- 15%work from home
What people in Mifflin County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Mifflin County had 17,229 jobs in 2025, 1.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 37° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 63°. About 26 inches of snow and 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lewistown weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Mifflin County
- Mifflin County SDSchool district844FTE
- Geisinger Lewistown HospitalGeneral hospital839FTE
- First Quality Retail ServicesDiapers, disposable, made from purchased paper or textile fiber785
- Philips Reedsville 1Ultrasonic medical equipment manufacturing589
- Standard SteelWheels, car and locomotive, iron or steel, made in iron and steel mills585
- Trinity PlasticsBags, plastics film, single wall or multiwall, manufacturing454
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters336
- Valley View Retirement CommunityRetirement homes with nursing care295
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 40 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 6,512 people in all across the county; McVeytown has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals 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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in McVeytown’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Mifflin County and the Lewistown, PA metro.
McVeytown home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- McVeytown$217,555
- 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a McVeytown address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls McVeytown — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.