Orbisonia, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $170,399 (+3.6% in a year). Huntingdon, PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$267 (+43%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $5,948 +4%
- $164,451$170,399 since Sep 2025
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.
- Orbisonia$894
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Orbisonia, PA rose 3.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Orbisonia, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania
Orbisonia is a borough of 449 people in Huntingdon County. Unemployment in Huntingdon County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Huntingdon 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Orbisonia is a very small borough in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, with a population that is easy to count on a few streets. Its residents are on the young side for the area, and homes cost less than in much of the country. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and freezing nights common, while summers turn warm in July. Rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in manufacturing, shops and the building trades. Across Huntingdon County, some of the largest workplaces are Juniata College, Huntingdon Area Schools and Penn Highlands Huntingdon. Unemployment across the county has eased compared with a year earlier, and the number of jobs there has edged up slightly.
Things to do. In or beside town, the Rockhill Trolley Museum is the best known stop, and Three Springs Creek and Blacklog Creek run close by for time along the water. A short drive away are Aughwick Creek and Great Trough Creek, both streams worth a visit. A longer drive brings you to Raystown Lake, a large reservoir, and to Trough Creek State Park, a protected area of woods and water.
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- 194households
What people in Huntingdon County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Huntingdon County had 12,771 jobs in 2025, 0.6% 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 84° and lows near 64°. About 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Raystown Headquarters weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Huntingdon County
- Juniata CollegeUniversity or college385
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters292
- Huntingdon Area SDSchool district279FTE
- ACCO Brands - AlexandriaNotebooks made from purchased paper248
- Bonney ForgePress forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished244
- Penn Highlands HuntingdonGeneral hospital244FTE
- Mount Union Area SDSchool district202FTE
- Southern Huntingdon County SDSchool district196FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 22 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,379 people in all across the county; Orbisonia has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts 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
- Strong windVery high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Orbisonia’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 Huntingdon County and the Huntingdon, PA metro.
Orbisonia home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Orbisonia$170,399
- 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.
- Orbisonia7
Zip codes with a Orbisonia address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Orbisonia — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.