Saxton, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $146,911 (-1.2% in a year). Huntingdon, PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$253 (+49%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Down $1,808 -1%
- $148,719$146,911 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.
- Saxton$771
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Saxton, PA fell 1.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Saxton, Bedford County, Pennsylvania
Saxton is a borough of 726 people in Bedford County. 44% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 56% are rented. Unemployment in Bedford County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 1.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Saxton is a small borough in Bedford County, home to a small number of people, and more of its homes are rented than owned, so renting is common. Typical home values are modest, and household incomes across Bedford County are not high. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest. Rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the year.
Work. Residents of Saxton work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, restaurants and hotels, and wholesale. Across Bedford County, some of the largest workplaces are Walmart, Omni Bedford Springs and New Enterprise Stone Lime. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many places, the typical commute is a moderate one, and some people work from home.
Things to do. Warriors Path State Park, a protected area, lies in or beside town. A short drive away are Yellow Creek and Great Trough Creek, both rivers. A longer drive brings you to Trough Creek State Park, another protected area.
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- 353households
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 25 mintypical commute
- 13%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Bedford County had 16,405 jobs in 2025, 1.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 36° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 62°. About 37 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Altoona Blair County Airport weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Bedford County
- WalmartRefrigerated warehousing and storage968
- Omni Bedford SpringsHotels with golf courses, tennis courts, and/or other health spa facilities508
- New Enterprise Stone Lime CoIncHighway street and bridge construction502
- REIGeneral warehousing and storage279
- Creative PultrusionsSheet, laminated plastics, manufacturing266
- JLGAerial work platforms manufacturing240
- JLGAerial work platforms manufacturing237
- Upmc BedfordGeneral hospital231FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 38 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,358 people in all across the county; Saxton has none of its own. 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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Saxton’s census tracts, 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 Bedford County and the Huntingdon, PA metro.
Saxton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Saxton$146,911
- 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.
- Saxton9
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Saxton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Saxton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.