Shenandoah, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $66,361 (-4.2% in a year). Pottsville, PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$242 (+227%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $2,885 -4%
- $69,245$66,361 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $19,435 +41%
- $46,926$66,361 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.
- Shenandoah$348
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Shenandoah, PA fell 4.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Shenandoah, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania
Shenandoah is a borough of 4,243 people in Schuylkill County. Half its households earn more than $45,294 a year and half less, against $68,313 across Schuylkill County; 28% of its people live below the poverty line. 67% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 33% are rented. Unemployment in Schuylkill County was 5.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Shenandoah is a small borough in Schuylkill County, with a younger population than many Pennsylvania towns and incomes well below the county's. More of its residents live below the poverty line than is typical, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and typical home values are modest. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, summers are warm, and rain and melted snow add up to a good deal over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, shops, transport and warehousing, and in schools, hospitals and social care. Among the largest workplaces in Shenandoah are Ateeco, a frozen specialty foods maker, Shenandoah Valley Schools, and Shenandoah Senior Living Community. Unemployment across Schuylkill County is a little lower than a year ago, and the number of jobs has edged up. Very few residents work from home, and the typical commute is a fairly long one.
Things to do. Close by, Tuscarora State Park and Locust Lake State Park are both a short drive away and offer protected open country, and Shenandoah Creek is a short drive away as well. For a longer outing, Knoebels Amusement Resort is an amusement park a longer drive away, and Hawk Mountain Sanctuary is a protected area, also a longer drive away.
Report a mistake
- 1,618households
- 13%of adults have a degree
- 28%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Schuylkill County had 50,502 jobs in 2025, 0.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 61°. About 48 inches of snow and 54 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mahanoy City North weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Shenandoah
- AteecoNationality specialty foods, frozen, manufacturing230
- Shenandoah Valley SDSchool district188FTE
- Shenandoah Senior Living CommunityNursing homes118
- Redner's Warehouse Market ShenandoahGrocery stores99
- Boyer's Food Markets -ShenandoahGrocery stores32
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 479 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Shenandoah’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 Schuylkill County and the Pottsville, PA metro.
Shenandoah home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Shenandoah$66,361
- Pennsylvania$287,078
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Shenandoah 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.
- Shenandoah21.16%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Shenandoah42
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Shenandoah9
Zip codes with a Shenandoah address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Shenandoah — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.