Smethport, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $113,073 (-3.8% in a year). Bradford, PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$224 (+61%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $4,455 -4%
- $117,528$113,073 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $4,386 -4%
- $117,459$113,073 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.
- Smethport$593
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Smethport, PA fell 3.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Smethport, McKean County, Pennsylvania
Smethport is a borough of 1,436 people in McKean County. 70% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 30% are rented. Unemployment in McKean County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Smethport is a small borough where most homes are lived in by their owners, and home values are modest. Winters are long, cold and very snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers are mild and warm. Getting to work takes little time for most residents, and few people work from home.
Work. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, manufacturing and other services also employing many. Across McKean County, some of the largest workplaces are Zippo Manufacturing Company, Bradford Area Schools and American Refining Group in Bradford. The county has lost a few jobs over the past year, though unemployment there is lower than it was a year earlier.
Things to do. Blacksmith Run, a stream, runs in or beside town. A short drive away are Kinzua Bridge State Park, a protected area, and Susquehannock State Forest, another protected area. Allegany State Park, also a protected area, is a longer drive away.
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- 640households
- 28%of adults have a degree
- 16 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. McKean County had 13,771 jobs in 2025, 1.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 29° and lows near 13°; warmest in July, with highs near 76° and lows near 55°. About 80 inches of snow and 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Clermont Northwest weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in McKean County
- Zippo Manufacturing CompanyCigarette lighters manufacturing520
- Bradford Area SDSchool district334FTE
- American Refining Group- BradfordPetroleum refineries309
- W.R. Case CutleryRazor blades manufacturing306
- Ardagh Glass Packaging Port AlleganyGlass packaging containers manufacturing304
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters299
- Bradford Ecumenical HomeGroup homes for the disabled with nursing care254
- Bradford Regional Medical CenterGeneral medical and surgical hospitals244
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 42 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,923 people in all across the county; Smethport has one of its own. 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
- Inland floodingVery high
- LightningRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively 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 Smethport’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 McKean County and the Bradford, PA metro.
Smethport home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Smethport$113,073
- 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.
- Smethport16
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Smethport4
Zip codes with a Smethport address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Smethport — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.