Seneca, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $171,384 (+5.5% in a year). Oil City, PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$486 (+117%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,863 +5%
- $162,521$171,384 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $33,024 +24%
- $138,360$171,384 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.
- Seneca$900
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Seneca, PA rose 5.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Seneca, Venango County, Pennsylvania
Seneca, in Venango County, had 1,011 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Venango County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 1.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Venango County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Seneca is a small community in Venango County, in western Pennsylvania, with a population that keeps to the small side. Typical home values here run modest, and the share of people living below the poverty line is lower than in many places. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers turn warm in July, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and professional and business services close behind. Among the largest workplaces in Seneca are Cranberry Area Schools, UPS and Hards Fabrication & Welding. A fair number of people work from home, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than you might find in a larger city.
Things to do. The countryside around Seneca is mostly creeks, rivers and protected woodland. Oil Creek and French Creek are rivers a short drive away, and Oil Creek State Park, a protected area, is a longer drive. For a look at the region's past, Fort Machault is an old fort a short drive away.
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- 717households
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 14%work from home
What people in Venango County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Venango County had 15,993 jobs in 2025, 1.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 34° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 60°. About 54 inches of snow and 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Franklin weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Seneca
- Cranberry Area SDSchool district179FTE
- UPSCouriers and express delivery services63
- Hards Fabrication & WeldingPlate work, fabricated metal, manufacturing28
- Schneider's Dairy27
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 118 people in all. School districts come 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Seneca’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 Venango County and the Oil City, PA metro.
Seneca home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Seneca$171,384
- 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.
- Seneca6
Zip codes with a Seneca address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Seneca — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.