Morton, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $363,473 (+1.7% in a year), asking rent $1,295 . Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,028 (+117%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,916 +2%
- $357,558$363,473 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $74,058 +26%
- $289,415$363,473 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.
- Morton$1,908
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Morton, PA rose 1.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Morton, Delaware County, Pennsylvania
Morton is a borough of 2,778 people in Delaware County. 59% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 41% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Morton is a small borough in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, with a population that has stayed modest in size. Residents are somewhat older than in many places, and most homes are lived in by their owners, though renters make up a real part of the community too. A smaller group of residents live below the poverty line, and more than a few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January days that stay close to freezing and nights below it, and a fair amount of snow; summers are warm, with hot July afternoons, and rain falls through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by professional and business services, restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and manufacturing. Across Delaware County, some of the largest workplaces are Villanova University, The Boeing Company and Crozer Chester Medical Center. The typical commute is on the long side, and a good number of people work from home. Unemployment across the county has eased over the past year, and the number of jobs has edged up slightly.
Things to do. Several well-known places are a short drive away. Independence Hall, an archaeological site, is among the most famous, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art is a short drive away as well. For a day outdoors with family, the Philadelphia Zoo is also a short drive. Sports fans can reach Lincoln Financial Field, a stadium, in a short drive too.
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- 1,290households
- 35%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 33 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 41° and lows near 26°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 70°. About 23 inches of snow and 44 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Philadelphia International Airport weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Delaware County
- Villanova UniversityUniversity or college3,306
- The Boeing CompanyAircraft manufacturing3,071
- Contemporary Services2,644
- Crozer Chester Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,932FTE
- Lower Merion SDSchool district1,636FTE
- Widener UniversityUniversity or college1,428
- Upper Darby SDSchool district1,249FTE
- Elwyn Media CampusGroup homes, intellectual and developmental disability1,152
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 380 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 48,480 people in all across the county; Morton has two 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Morton’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.
Morton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Morton$363,473
- 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.
- Morton17
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Morton6
Zip codes with a Morton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Morton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.