Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $234,620 (-0.9% in a year), asking rent $1,569 (+3.8%). Pittsburgh, PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$584 (+90%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $2,098 -1%
- $236,718$234,620 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $21,348 +10%
- $213,273$234,620 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.
- Pittsburgh$1,231
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 36 years.
Typical home values in Pittsburgh, PA fell 0.9% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Pittsburgh, PA rose 3.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Pittsburgh runs $210/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $388 in Oct 2023.
That is $1,779 a month against $1,569 rent: a $1,231 mortgage payment, plus $296 property tax and $251 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Pittsburgh
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$1,779
- Renting$1,569
- Mortgage only$1,231
Property tax · $296/mo 1.52% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Allegheny County, PA
Insurance & upkeep · $251/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh is a city of 302,971 people in Allegheny County. Half its households earn more than $65,742 a year and half less, against $78,548 across Allegheny County; 20% of its people live below the poverty line. 48% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 52% are rented. Unemployment in Pittsburgh was 3.8% in August 2026, and Allegheny County had 0.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then professional services.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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. Pittsburgh is a city in western Pennsylvania and the seat of Allegheny County, where the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers join to form the Ohio. Its hills, bridges and older brick neighborhoods reflect its long history as a steel-making center. Winters are cold and summers are warm, with rain or melted snow falling through much of the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, and in professional and business services. Restaurants, hotels, entertainment and retail shops also employ many people. Unemployment has eased over the past year, and many adults hold a four-year degree.
Things to do. The Andy Warhol Museum, a museum of art, is in or beside town, as is the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. Fort Pitt, an old fort, is also in or beside town and is a good place to learn about the city's early history.
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- 138,188households
- 49%of adults have a degree
- 20%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 22%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 37° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 64°. About 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Pittsburgh Allegheny County Airport weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Pittsburgh
- 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
- University of Pittsburgh Medical CenterOffices of physicians3,812
- Allegheny General HospitalGeneral hospital2,854FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 221 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 96,473 people in all. 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
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Pittsburgh’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 Allegheny County and the Pittsburgh, PA metro.
Pittsburgh home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Pittsburgh$234,620
- Pennsylvania$287,078
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Pittsburgh listings, and the typical home goes pending in 16 days — the market is cooling.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Pittsburgh30.91%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Pittsburgh16
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Pittsburgh2,599
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Pittsburgh756
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Pittsburgh$256,531
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Pittsburgh98.62%
Zip codes with a Pittsburgh address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Pittsburgh — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Pittsburgh
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15237 | Pittsburgh | 43,588 | $1,711 | $356,085 |
| 15235 | Pittsburgh | 33,951 | $1,451 | $170,761 |
| 15236 | Pittsburgh | 31,313 | $1,111 | $251,062 |
| 15213 | Pittsburgh | 30,466 | $2,110 | $262,473 |
| 15221 | Pittsburgh | 29,374 | $1,269 | $145,748 |
| 15206 | Pittsburgh | 29,056 | $1,812 | $278,301 |
| 15212 | Pittsburgh | 27,652 | $1,496 | $169,999 |
| 15217 | Pittsburgh | 25,795 | $1,516 | $460,793 |
| 15210 | Pittsburgh | 25,227 | $1,301 | $105,201 |
| 15241 | Pittsburgh | 22,294 | $1,679 | $478,740 |
| 15216 | Pittsburgh | 21,471 | $1,357 | $211,035 |
| 15239 | Pittsburgh | 21,410 | — | $249,143 |
| 15202 | Pittsburgh | 19,564 | $1,151 | $214,966 |
| 15228 | Pittsburgh | 18,236 | $1,330 | $421,429 |
| 15220 | Pittsburgh | 17,644 | $1,370 | $234,129 |
| 15229 | Pittsburgh | 15,188 | $1,605 | $242,476 |
| 15214 | Pittsburgh | 14,048 | $1,434 | $168,215 |
| 15234 | Pittsburgh | 14,014 | $1,407 | $210,295 |
| 15226 | Pittsburgh | 13,999 | $1,416 | $197,589 |
| 15243 | Pittsburgh | 13,456 | $2,125 | $336,732 |
| 15218 | Pittsburgh | 13,379 | $1,277 | $206,581 |
| 15201 | Pittsburgh | 13,333 | $1,887 | $288,183 |
| 15238 | Pittsburgh | 12,868 | $1,605 | $568,273 |
| 15209 | Pittsburgh | 12,328 | $1,064 | $231,167 |
| 15215 | Pittsburgh | 11,907 | $1,542 | $340,441 |
| 15219 | Pittsburgh | 11,376 | $1,839 | $148,921 |
| 15232 | Pittsburgh | 11,349 | $1,626 | $490,792 |
| 15207 | Pittsburgh | 10,961 | $1,394 | $138,966 |
| 15211 | Pittsburgh | 10,728 | $1,586 | $208,438 |
| 15224 | Pittsburgh | 10,665 | $1,494 | $249,473 |
| 15203 | Pittsburgh | 10,370 | $1,811 | $211,642 |
| 15208 | Pittsburgh | 10,094 | $1,848 | $153,171 |
| 15204 | Pittsburgh | 8,467 | $1,622 | $118,145 |
| 15222 | Pittsburgh | 5,725 | $2,243 | $460,468 |
| 15233 | Pittsburgh | 2,596 | $1,414 | $241,272 |
| 15225 | Pittsburgh | 1,085 | — | $146,588 |