Prosperity, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $241,709 (+6.7% in a year). Pittsburgh, PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$147 (+13%) since Jan 2024.
- 1 year
- Up $15,241 +7%
- $226,468$241,709 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.
- Prosperity$1,269
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Prosperity, PA rose 6.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Prosperity, Washington County, Pennsylvania
The Census does not count Prosperity on its own, so the figures here are Washington County's. Half the county's households earn more than $78,958 a year and half less; 10% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 76% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 24% are rented. Unemployment in Washington County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 2.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Washington County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Prosperity is a small town in Washington County, southwestern Pennsylvania, where winters are colder than in most of the country and snow is a regular part of the season. Summers are warm, and the year is fairly wet, with rain and melted snow falling steadily. Across Washington County, most homes are lived in by their owners, and the typical home is more affordable than in many parts of the country.
Work. Across Washington County, many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in professional and business services, and in manufacturing. Jobs in the county grew over the last year, and unemployment is lower than it was a year earlier. Across the county, the typical resident is older than the national median, and a smaller share of adults hold a four-year degree than in many parts of the country.
Things to do. Ruff Creek runs in or beside town, which makes it an easy place to walk or sit by the water. EQT Park, a stadium a short drive away, is a good place to watch a game. Meadowcroft Rockshelter, one of the best known museums on the list, is a longer drive away and is worth the trip for anyone interested in the area's history.
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- 88,505households
- 44.2median age
- 33%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 15%work from home
What people in Washington County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Washington County had 89,399 jobs in 2025, 2.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 38° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 60°. About 30 inches of snow and 43 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Waynesburg East weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Washington County
- Pennsylvania Western UniversityUniversity or college1,537
- Songer ServicesAddition, alteration and renovation, general contractors, industrial building1,319
- Upmc WashingtonGeneral hospital1,306FTE
- Lighthouse Electric CompanyElectrical contractors1,024
- Canon-McMillan SDSchool district676FTE
- Campbell Transportation Company (Vessel Operations)Freight transportation, inland waters672
- Monongahela Valley HospitalGeneral hospital668FTE
- Penn EntertainmentCasino hotels663
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 198 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 27,053 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
- LightningRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Washington County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Washington County and the Pittsburgh, PA metro.
Prosperity home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Prosperity$241,709
- 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.
Zip codes with a Prosperity address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Prosperity — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.