Media, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $631,028 (+2.9% in a year), asking rent $2,431 (+6.1%). Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,784 (+117%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $17,972 +3%
- $613,056$631,028 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $137,468 +28%
- $493,560$631,028 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.
- Media$3,312
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Media, PA rose 2.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Media, PA rose 6.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Media runs $2,526/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $2,572 in May 2024.
That is $4,957 a month against $2,431 rent: a $3,312 mortgage payment, plus $969 property tax and $676 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Media
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$4,957
- Renting$2,431
- Mortgage only$3,312
Property tax · $969/mo 1.84% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Delaware County, PA
Insurance & upkeep · $676/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 Media, Delaware County, Pennsylvania
Media is a borough of 5,901 people in Delaware County. Half its households earn more than $89,092 a year and half less, against $89,546 across Delaware County; 4% of its people live below the poverty line. 42% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 58% are rented. Unemployment in Delaware County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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. Media is a borough in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, with a small-town scale and a population on the older side. Incomes are close to the county's, and far fewer households own their homes than across most of the county, so renting is common here. A large share of adults hold a four-year degree, and typical home values and rents run high.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by professional and business services, banks, insurance and property, and manufacturing. Among the larger workplaces in Media are Rose Tree Media Schools, Trader Joe's and BAYADA Home Health Care. The typical commute is moderate, and a good number of people work from home.
Things to do. For a game day, Subaru Park is a stadium a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to Philadelphia's museums, including the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Barnes Foundation, as well as Independence Hall. Winters are cold and summers warm, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow through the year.
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- 3,049households
- 62%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 21%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Delaware County had 219,222 jobs in 2025, 0.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 43° and lows near 27°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 70°. About 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Marcus Hook weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Media
- Rose Tree Media SDSchool district704FTE
- WallworksStud wall installation110
- Trader Joe's 0637 MediaGrocery store85
- Acme MarketsSupermarkets and other grocery stores80
- BAYADA Home Health CareHome health care76
- MediaMail and parcel delivery68
- Wawa SiteConvenience store39
- Media Real Estate - Media locationBuilding, nonresidential, rental or leasing32
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 518 people in all. School districts come 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
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Media’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 Delaware County and the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD metro.
Media home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Media$631,028
- Pennsylvania$287,078
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Media listings, and the typical home goes pending in 9 days — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Media28.54%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Media9
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Media79
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Media36
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Media$600,603
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Media102.66%
Zip codes with a Media address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Media — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.