Schellsburg, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $241,587 (+6.9% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$512 (+68%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $15,602 +7%
- $225,985$241,587 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.
- Schellsburg$1,268
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Schellsburg, PA rose 6.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Schellsburg, Bedford County, Pennsylvania
Schellsburg is a borough of 330 people in Bedford County. 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 people in Bedford County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Schellsburg is a very small borough in Bedford County, Pennsylvania, with far fewer residents than most towns people think of when they picture a place to live. Homes here are valued above what the county's household incomes might suggest, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and plenty of rain and melted snow across the year, while July brings warm days.
Work. Residents of the town work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, manufacturing and the building trades. Across Bedford County, some of the largest workplaces are Omni Bedford Springs, New Enterprise Stone Lime and JLG. Unemployment across the county is lower than it was a year earlier, though the county has lost a few jobs over the past year, and the typical commute to work is a fairly long one.
Things to do. Shawnee State Park, a protected area, lies in or beside town. A short drive away are Fort Bedford, a museum, and Bobs Creek, a river. For a longer outing, the Flight 93 National Memorial is a longer drive away.
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- 13%of adults have a degree
- 26 mintypical commute
What people in Bedford County 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 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 59°. About 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Shawnee Sp weather station, a mile 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; Schellsburg 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
- LandslidesRelatively 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 Schellsburg’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.
Schellsburg home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Schellsburg$241,587
- 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.
- Schellsburg8
Zip codes with a Schellsburg address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Schellsburg — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.