Monessen, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $83,423 (-0.9% in a year). Pittsburgh, PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$266 (+154%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $776 -1%
- $84,199$83,423 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $18,455 +28%
- $64,968$83,423 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.
- Monessen$438
- 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 Monessen, PA fell 0.9% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Monessen, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania
Monessen is a city of 6,876 people in Westmoreland County. Half its households earn more than $52,889 a year and half less, against $74,109 across Westmoreland County; 21% of its people live below the poverty line. 73% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 27% are rented. Unemployment in Westmoreland County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Monessen is a small city on the Monongahela River in Westmoreland County, where most homes are lived in by their owners and typical home values are modest. Residents are older than in many American towns, and household incomes sit well below the county's, with more people living below the poverty line than is usual. Winters are cold, with January highs near freezing and lows well below it, while July is warm, and a good deal of snow, rain and melted snow falls over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, manufacturing, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Among the largest workplaces in Monessen are Cleveland Cliffs Monessen, which makes coke oven products, Monessen City Schools, and Baker Installations, an electrical contractor. Unemployment across Westmoreland County has eased over the past year, though the county has slightly fewer jobs than it did a year earlier, and fewer adults here hold a four-year degree than is typical.
Things to do. The Ohio River is a longer drive away, as is Fallingwater, the museum house that is one of the best known buildings in the country. Pittsburgh's museums and ballparks, including the Carnegie Museum of Natural History and PNC Park, are also a longer drive away.
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- 3,129households
- 26%of adults have a degree
- 21%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Westmoreland County had 128,972 jobs in 2025, 0.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 39° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 64°. About 10 inches of snow and 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Charleroi Lock weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Monessen
- Cleveland Cliffs MonessenCoke oven products made in coke oven establishments191
- Monessen City SDSchool district106FTE
- Baker InstallationsLow voltage electrical work87
- Douglas Education CenterTwo-year college58
- MonessenMail and parcel delivery23
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 301 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- Inland floodingrelatively high in parts of MonessenRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Monessen’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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 Westmoreland County and the Pittsburgh, PA metro.
Monessen home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Monessen$83,423
- 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 3 Monessen listings — 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.
- Monessen31.67%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Monessen52
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Monessen10
Zip codes with a Monessen address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Monessen — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.