Seward, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $123,844 (-0.7% in a year). Indiana, PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — $101 (-13%) since Nov 2023.
- 1 year
- Down $867 -1%
- $124,711$123,844 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.
- Seward$650
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Seward, PA fell 0.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Seward, Indiana County, Pennsylvania
Seward is a borough of 411 people in Indiana County. Unemployment in Indiana County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Indiana 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Seward is a very small borough in Indiana County, Pennsylvania, where neighbors are likely to know one another. Homes here cost less than in much of the country, though a larger share of residents live below the poverty line than is typical, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and snow a regular part of the season, while summers are pleasantly warm, and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in shops, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and in manufacturing. Across Indiana County, some of the biggest workplaces are Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana Regional Medical Center and Indiana Area Schools. Unemployment across the county is lower than it was a year ago, and the number of jobs there has grown slightly. A typical commute is a moderate one, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Buttermilk Falls Natural Area, a waterfall, lies in or beside town. A short drive away are the Little Conemaugh River and the Johnstown Flood Museum, which tells the story of one of the best-known disasters in the region's history. For a longer outing, Flight 93 National Memorial is a protected area a longer drive away.
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- 182households
- 5%of adults have a degree
- 17%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What people in Indiana County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Indiana County had 28,044 jobs in 2025, 0.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 33° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 79° and lows near 61°. About 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Johnstown Cambria County Airport weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Indiana County
- Indiana University of PennsylvaniaUniversity or college1,166
- Indiana Regional Medical CenterGeneral hospital849FTE
- Diamond Pharmacy ServicesDruggists' sundries merchant wholesalers803
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters423
- Indiana Area SDSchool district343FTE
- Specialty Tires of AmericaTires manufacturing332
- BAYADA Home Health CareHome health care295
- River Valley SDSchool district264FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 67 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 7,902 people in all across the county; Seward has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts 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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively 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 Seward’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 Indiana County and the Indiana, PA metro.
Seward home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Seward$123,844
- 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.
- Seward6
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Seward address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Seward — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.