Rillton, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $196,775 (+15.6% in a year). Pittsburgh, PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$150 (+17%) since Nov 2023.
- 1 year
- Up $26,518 +16%
- $170,257$196,775 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.
- Rillton$1,033
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Rillton, PA rose 15.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Rillton, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania
The Census does not count Rillton on its own, so the figures here are Westmoreland County's. Half the county's households earn more than $74,109 a year and half less; 10% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 78% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 22% are rented. Unemployment in Westmoreland County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Westmoreland County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Rillton is a small town in Westmoreland County, in western Pennsylvania. Across the county, most homes are lived in by their owners, and many residents are in middle age or older. Winters are cold and summers are warm, with rain and melted snow arriving through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in manufacturing, retail, and professional and business services. Across Westmoreland County, unemployment has come down over the past year, though the number of jobs has dipped slightly. Some residents also work from home.
Things to do. The Youghiogheny River is a short drive away and offers a river setting close by. Fallingwater, a museum a longer drive away, is one of the best known sites in the area. The Carnegie Museum of Natural History, also a longer drive away, is another museum to visit.
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- 154,979households
- 47.2median age
- 33%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 13%work from home
What people in Westmoreland County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Westmoreland County had 128,972 jobs in 2025, 0.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 38° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 61°. About 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mckeesport weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Westmoreland County
- Penn Line Tree ServiceTree and brush trimming, overhead utility line1,772
- UPSCouriers and express delivery services1,549
- Cleveland Brothers Equipment CompanyAgricultural machinery and equipment repair and maintenance services1,433
- Westmoreland Regional HospitalGeneral hospital1,308FTE
- Elliott GroupCompressors, air and gas, general purpose-type, manufacturing1,033
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage941
- LeedsworldLabels, textile, merchant wholesalers770
- Latrobe Area HospitalGeneral hospital702FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 323 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 46,068 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Westmoreland 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 Westmoreland County and the Pittsburgh, PA metro.
Rillton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Rillton$196,775
- 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 Rillton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Rillton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.