Orrstown, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $284,289 (+2.9% in a year). Chambersburg-Waynesboro, PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$629 (+73%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $8,002 +3%
- $276,287$284,289 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.
- Orrstown$1,492
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Orrstown, PA rose 2.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Orrstown, Franklin County, Pennsylvania
Orrstown is a borough of 214 people in Franklin County. Unemployment in Franklin County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 2.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Franklin 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Orrstown is a very small borough in Franklin County, with far fewer people than most towns and a quiet, close-knit feel. Typical home values sit well below what many buyers expect elsewhere, though only a small share of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers turn warm in July. Rain and melted snow fall at a steady, moderate rate through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in manufacturing, shops and professional and business services. Almost no one works from home, and the typical commute is a short one. Across Franklin County, some of the largest workplaces are Chambersburg Area Schools, THE Chambersburg Hospital and Walmart. Unemployment in the county is lower than a year ago, and the county added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Muddy Run, a river in or beside town, is the nearest place to be outdoors. A short drive away are Middle Spring Creek, another river, and the Capitol Theatre. For a longer day out, Gettysburg National Military Park is an archaeological site and battlefield a longer drive away, and Caledonia State Park offers protected woodland, also a longer drive.
Report a mistake
- 8%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 1%work from home
What people in Franklin County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Franklin County had 61,619 jobs in 2025, 2.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 38° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 64°. About 34 inches of snow and 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Shippensburg weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Franklin County
- System One HoldingsTemporary staffing services5,694
- THE Chambersburg HospitalGeneral hospital1,504FTE
- WalmartGeneral warehousing and storage1,344
- TargetDiscount department stores1,200
- Chambersburg Area SDSchool district1,077FTE
- Ulta Beauty CHBGeneral warehousing , goods and storage800
- Ventura FoodsSalad dressings manufacturing788
- Martin's Famous Pastry shoppeCommercial bakeries786
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 150 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 27,712 people in all across the county; Orrstown has none of its own. Hospitals come 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
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Orrstown’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 Franklin County and the Chambersburg-Waynesboro, PA metro.
Orrstown home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Orrstown$284,289
- 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.
- Orrstown7
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Orrstown address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Orrstown — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.