Milroy, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $194,562 (+5.6% in a year). Lewistown, PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$605 (+145%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,316 +6%
- $184,246$194,562 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $54,047 +38%
- $140,515$194,562 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.
- Milroy$1,021
- 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 Milroy, PA rose 5.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Milroy, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania
Milroy, in Mifflin County, had 1,550 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $76,492 a year and half less, against $63,953 across Mifflin County. 87% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 13% are rented. 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Milroy is a small community in Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, where nearly everyone lives in a home they own. Household incomes run higher than across the county, and homes here are valued modestly compared with much of the country. Winters are cold, with January highs near freezing and lows well below it, and the town gets a good deal of snow each year. Summers are warm, and precipitation is spread through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in shops and in the building trades. Across Mifflin County, the largest workplaces include Mifflin County Schools, Geisinger Lewistown Hospital and First Quality Retail Services. Jobs across the county grew over the past year, and unemployment there has come down from a year earlier. Few people work from home, and the typical commute is a fairly long one.
Things to do. Much of what is nearby is outdoors. Penn-Roosevelt State Park and Reeds Gap State Park are protected areas a short drive away, and Fort Granville is a historic fort that is also a short drive away. For skiing in winter, Tussey Mountain Ski Area is a short drive from town.
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- 633households
- 19%of adults have a degree
- 34 mintypical commute
- 0%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, 9 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; Milroy 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 floodingVery high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively 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 Milroy’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.
Milroy home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Milroy$194,562
- 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.
- Milroy6
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Milroy address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Milroy — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.