Perryopolis, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $171,603 (-3.4% in a year). Pittsburgh, PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$415 (+85%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $6,001 -3%
- $177,605$171,603 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $11,024 +7%
- $160,579$171,603 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.
- Perryopolis$901
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 52 years.
Typical home values in Perryopolis, PA fell 3.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Perryopolis, Fayette County, Pennsylvania
Perryopolis is a borough of 1,705 people in Fayette County. Half its households earn more than $61,319 a year and half less, against $58,236 across Fayette County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. 77% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 23% are rented. Unemployment in Fayette County was 5.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Perryopolis is a small borough in Fayette County, with a population older than in much of the country. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and typical home values and household incomes sit a little above the county's, though some residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest. Snow falls through the winter, and rain and melted snow add up to a fairly wet year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and restaurants and hotels also employing many. Among the largest workplaces in town are Frazier Schools, the Herr Foods snack plant and BR71 Bobcat Perryopolis. Fayette County has seen unemployment ease over the past year, though the number of jobs has slipped slightly. Commutes are fairly long, and some residents work from home.
Things to do. The nearest well-known places are all a longer drive away. Fallingwater is a museum devoted to one of the best-known houses in the country. For a day on the water, the Youghiogheny River and the Monongahela River are both within a longer drive. The Carnegie Museum of Natural History and the Andy Warhol Museum are museums that are also a longer drive from town.
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- 700households
- 26%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Fayette County had 37,808 jobs in 2025, 0.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 39° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 62°. About 21 inches of snow and 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Donora Southwest weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Perryopolis
- Frazier SDSchool district131FTE
- Herr Foods - 064 PerryopolisSnack food manufacturer39
- BR71 Bobcat PerryopolisConstruction machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers24
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 63 people in all. School districts come 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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Perryopolis’ 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 Fayette County and the Pittsburgh, PA metro.
Perryopolis home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Perryopolis$171,603
- 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.
- Perryopolis12
Zip codes with a Perryopolis address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Perryopolis — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Perryopolis
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15473 | Perryopolis | 3,422 | — | $184,421 |
| 15482 | Star Junction | 456 | — | $69,467 |