Sharon, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $74,115 (-7.1% in a year), asking rent $844 . Youngstown-Warren-Boardman, OH-PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$197 (+102%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $5,626 -7%
- $79,740$74,115 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $9,822 +15%
- $64,293$74,115 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.
- Sharon$389
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 24 years.
Typical home values in Sharon, PA fell 7.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Sharon, Mercer County, Pennsylvania
Sharon is a city of 13,147 people in Mercer County. Half its households earn more than $45,670 a year and half less, against $59,976 across Mercer County; 20% of its people live below the poverty line. 53% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 47% are rented. Unemployment in Mercer County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 1.2% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Sharon is a small city in Mercer County, Pennsylvania, with an older population than many places and incomes below the county's. Homes here cost far less than in much of the country, and renting is common, with about as many households renting as owning. Winters are cold and very snowy, summers are warm, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, manufacturing, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Among the largest workplaces in Sharon are Sharon Regional Health System, Sharon City Schools and Penn State Shenango. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than is typical, commutes are short, and few people work from home.
Things to do. The Avenue of Flags is a park in or beside town. Shenango River Lake, a reservoir, is a short drive away. For a longer outing, the Butler Institute of American Art is a museum a longer drive away, and Pymatuning State Park is a protected area, also a longer drive away.
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- 6,155households
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 20%below the poverty line
- 18 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Mercer County had 42,729 jobs in 2025, 1.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 34° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 60°. About 68 inches of snow and 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Youngstown Regional Airport weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Sharon
- Sharon Regional Health SystemGeneral hospital576FTE
- Sharon City SDSchool district265FTE
- NlmkGalvanizing metals and metal products for the trade162
- Sunbelt Solomon Services- PASHTransformers, electric power, manufacturing147
- Pennsylvania State University-Penn State ShenangoUniversity or college95
- Clepper ManorSkilled nursing facilities77
- SharonAbrasive points, wheels, and disks, dental, manufacturing70
- American IndustriesRolling stock, railroad, rebuilding50
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 9 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 664 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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 in parts of SharonRelatively 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 Sharon’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 Mercer County and the Youngstown-Warren-Boardman, OH-PA metro.
Sharon home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Sharon$74,115
- Pennsylvania$287,078
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Sharon listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Sharon22.74%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Sharon75
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Sharon16
Zip codes with a Sharon address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Sharon — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.