Red Lion, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $295,340 (+2.4% in a year), asking rent $1,604 (+7.0%). York-Hanover, PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$858 (+124%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,873 +2%
- $288,467$295,340 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $71,312 +32%
- $224,028$295,340 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.
- Red Lion$1,550
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Red Lion, PA rose 2.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Red Lion, PA rose 7.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Red Lion runs $659/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $693 in Jul 2025.
That is $2,263 a month against $1,604 rent: a $1,550 mortgage payment, plus $397 property tax and $316 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Red Lion
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$2,263
- Renting$1,604
- Mortgage only$1,550
Property tax · $397/mo 1.61% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for York County, PA
Insurance & upkeep · $316/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 Red Lion, York County, Pennsylvania
Red Lion is a borough of 6,512 people in York County. Half its households earn more than $72,901 a year and half less, against $84,829 across York County; 16% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in York County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% more 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. Red Lion is a borough in York County, Pennsylvania, and a small town by any measure. Residents are somewhat younger than in many American communities, and household incomes run below the county's, with a real share of people living below the poverty line. Fewer adults here hold a four-year degree than you might expect, and homes are priced well within reach compared with many parts of the country.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in shops and in the building trades. The largest workplaces in Red Lion include General Dynamics OTS, which makes ammunition and small arms, Rand-Whitney Mid-Atlantic, which makes corrugated boxes, and Tri-Boro Materials, a dump trucking firm. The typical commute is a moderate one, and only a small share of people work from home. Unemployment across York County is lower than it was a year ago, and the number of jobs there has barely changed.
Things to do. Samuel S. Lewis State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away and is the closest place to get outdoors. A longer drive brings you to Hersheypark, an amusement park, and to the National Watch and Clock Museum. Winters are cold, with snow most years, and summers turn warm, so the seasons shape what is worth doing.
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- 2,709households
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. York County had 182,806 jobs in 2025, 0.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 41° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 63°. About 25 inches of snow and 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the York Ssw Pump Station weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Red Lion
- General Dynamics OTS (Pennsylvania)Ammunition, small arms, manufacturing255
- Rand-Whitney Mid-AtlanticBoxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard118
- Genie Electronics CompanyFence installation61
- Tri-Boro MaterialsDump trucking35
- AdaptivAirHeating, ventilation and air-conditioning contractors23
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 492 people in all. 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
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Red Lion’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 York County and the York-Hanover, PA metro.
Red Lion home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Red Lion$295,340
- Pennsylvania$287,078
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Red Lion listings, and the typical home goes pending in 8 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.
- Red Lion33.34%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Red Lion8
- United States24
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Red Lion48
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Red Lion22
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Red Lion$282,741
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Red Lion102.17%
Zip codes with a Red Lion address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Red Lion — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.