Prospect Park, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $287,151 (-1.7% in a year), asking rent $1,500 . Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$825 (+121%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $4,839 -2%
- $291,989$287,151 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $52,382 +22%
- $234,769$287,151 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.
- Prospect Park$1,507
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Prospect Park, PA fell 1.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Prospect Park, Delaware County, Pennsylvania
Prospect Park is a borough of 6,427 people in Delaware County. 58% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 42% are rented. Unemployment in Delaware County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Prospect Park is a small borough in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, with a population that is modest in size. Most homes are lived in by their owners, though a good number of households rent, and typical home values sit in a middle range for the region. Winters are cold and snowy, summers turn warm, and precipitation is spread fairly evenly through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and in other services, with a smaller group in transport, warehouses and utilities. Across Delaware County, some of the largest workplaces are Villanova University, The Boeing Company and Crozer Chester Medical Center. Fewer adults here hold a four-year degree than the share you might expect in a college-oriented county, and a small group of residents work from home.
Things to do. Philadelphia's best-known attractions are a short drive away. Independence Hall is an archaeological site with deep roots in the nation's founding, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art is a major museum for a day indoors. For sports, Lincoln Financial Field is a stadium close at hand, also a short drive away.
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- 2,502households
- 23%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 9%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Delaware County had 219,222 jobs in 2025, 0.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 41° and lows near 26°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 70°. About 23 inches of snow and 44 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Philadelphia International Airport weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Delaware County
- Villanova UniversityUniversity or college3,306
- The Boeing CompanyAircraft manufacturing3,071
- Contemporary Services2,644
- Crozer Chester Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,932FTE
- Lower Merion SDSchool district1,636FTE
- Widener UniversityUniversity or college1,428
- Upper Darby SDSchool district1,249FTE
- Elwyn Media CampusGroup homes, intellectual and developmental disability1,152
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 380 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 48,480 people in all across the county; Prospect Park has none 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Coastal floodingRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively 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 Prospect Park’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 Delaware County and the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD metro.
Prospect Park home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Prospect Park$287,151
- 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.
- Prospect Park17
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Prospect Park6
Zip codes with a Prospect Park address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Prospect Park — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.