Midway, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $166,229 (+3.9% in a year). Pittsburgh, PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$456 (+110%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,191 +4%
- $160,038$166,229 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $24,687 +17%
- $141,543$166,229 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.
- Midway$872
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 22 years.
Typical home values in Midway, PA rose 3.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Midway, Washington County, Pennsylvania
Midway is a borough of 924 people in Washington County. Half its households earn more than $55,329 a year and half less, against $78,958 across Washington County; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. 90% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 10% are rented. Unemployment in Washington County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 2.2% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Midway is a small borough in Washington County, and nearly everyone who lives there owns their home. Incomes run well below the county's, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than you might expect, though homes here cost less than in many parts of the country. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm without being extreme.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and the building trades also employing many. Across Washington County, some of the largest workplaces are Pennsylvania Western University, UPMC Washington and Canon-McMillan Schools. The typical commute is a fairly long one, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Among the best-known places nearby are the Ohio River and the Allegheny River, both a longer drive away, where the rivers meet near Pittsburgh. Acrisure Stadium is a stadium a longer drive away, and the Carnegie Museum of Natural History is a museum in the same direction. Each makes a full outing rather than a quick errand.
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- 399households
- 11%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Washington County had 89,399 jobs in 2025, 2.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 36° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 63°. About 44 inches of snow and 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Pittsburgh International Airport weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Washington County
- Pennsylvania Western UniversityUniversity or college1,537
- Songer ServicesAddition, alteration and renovation, general contractors, industrial building1,319
- Upmc WashingtonGeneral hospital1,306FTE
- Lighthouse Electric CompanyElectrical contractors1,024
- Canon-McMillan SDSchool district676FTE
- Campbell Transportation Company (Vessel Operations)Freight transportation, inland waters672
- Monongahela Valley HospitalGeneral hospital668FTE
- Penn EntertainmentCasino hotels663
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 198 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 27,053 people in all across the county; Midway has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals 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
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Midway’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 Washington County and the Pittsburgh, PA metro.
Midway home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Midway$166,229
- 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 Midway address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Midway — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.