Shade Gap, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $183,480 (+2.1% in a year). Huntingdon, PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$68 (+8%) since Jan 2024.
- 1 year
- Up $3,692 +2%
- $179,788$183,480 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.
- Shade Gap$963
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Shade Gap, PA rose 2.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Shade Gap, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania
Shade Gap is a borough of 78 people in Huntingdon County. Unemployment in Huntingdon County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Huntingdon 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Shade Gap is a small borough in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, where most people know their neighbors. Winters are cold, with snow and a good deal of rain across the year, while summers are warm. The town has far fewer residents than the county's towns, so daily life tends to be quiet and close-knit.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in manufacturing, retail shops and the building trades. Unemployment has eased over the past year, and jobs in the county edged up in the most recent year. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and few people work from home, so the daily commute is often long.
Things to do. The Rockhill Trolley Museum is a museum a short drive away. Aughwick Creek, a river, is also a short drive away and suits a quiet afternoon outdoors. For a longer outing, Raystown Lake, a reservoir, is a longer drive away.
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- 3%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 43 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What people in Huntingdon County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Huntingdon County had 12,771 jobs in 2025, 0.6% more 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 84° and lows near 64°. About 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Raystown Headquarters weather station, 18 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Huntingdon County
- Juniata CollegeUniversity or college385
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters292
- Huntingdon Area SDSchool district279FTE
- ACCO Brands - AlexandriaNotebooks made from purchased paper248
- Bonney ForgePress forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished244
- Penn Highlands HuntingdonGeneral hospital244FTE
- Mount Union Area SDSchool district202FTE
- Southern Huntingdon County SDSchool district196FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 22 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,379 people in all across the county; Shade Gap has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Shade Gap’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Huntingdon County and the Huntingdon, PA metro.
Shade Gap home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Shade Gap$183,480
- 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 Shade Gap address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Shade Gap — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.