Pitcairn, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $92,411 (-4.2% in a year), asking rent $1,100 . Pittsburgh, PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$245 (+102%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $4,089 -4%
- $96,500$92,411 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $3,981 -4%
- $96,392$92,411 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.
- Pitcairn$485
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Pitcairn, PA fell 4.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Pitcairn, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
Pitcairn is a borough of 3,101 people in Allegheny County. Half its households earn more than $36,419 a year and half less, against $78,548 across Allegheny County; 15% of its people live below the poverty line. 39% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 61% are rented. Unemployment in Allegheny County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Pitcairn is a small borough in Allegheny County, a close-knit community of modest size. Most households rent rather than own, a higher share than is typical across the county, and incomes run well below the county's, with a sizable part of the population living below the poverty line. Winters are cold and snowy, summers turn warm, and precipitation is steady through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, manufacturing, and professional and business services. Few adults hold a four-year degree compared with the county as a whole, and the commute is a fairly typical one, with some people working from home. Across Allegheny County, the largest workplaces include the University of Pittsburgh, UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside and Carnegie Mellon University.
Things to do. A short drive away are the Carnegie Museum of Natural History and the Carnegie Museum of Art, a pair of museums that sit side by side in Pittsburgh. The Youghiogheny River is also a short drive off. A longer drive brings you to the Andy Warhol Museum and to the rivers and ballparks of downtown Pittsburgh, including PNC Park.
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- 1,412households
- 17%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 14%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Allegheny County had 670,169 jobs in 2025, 0.1% fewer 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 86° and lows near 64°. About 25 inches of snow and 44 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Murrysville Southwest weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Allegheny County
- University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh CampusUniversity or college14,731
- Upmc - Presbyterian ShadysideGeneral hospital8,829FTE
- Carnegie Mellon UniversityUniversity or college6,271
- University of Pittsburgh PhysiciansOffices of physicians4,542
- University of Pittsburgh Medical CenterDirect health and medical insurance carriers4,222
- Pittsburgh SDSchool district4,141FTE
- Eaton3,956
- University of Pittsburgh Medical CenterOffices of physicians3,812
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1,072 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 217,600 people in all across the county; Pitcairn 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
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Pitcairn’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 Allegheny County and the Pittsburgh, PA metro.
Pitcairn home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Pitcairn$92,411
- 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.
- Pitcairn17
Zip codes with a Pitcairn address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Pitcairn — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.