Smithfield, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $166,986 (-0.5% in a year). Pittsburgh, PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$386 (+79%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $857 -1%
- $167,843$166,986 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $7,466 +5%
- $159,520$166,986 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.
- Smithfield$876
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 76 years.
Typical home values in Smithfield, PA fell 0.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Smithfield, Fayette County, Pennsylvania
Smithfield is a borough of 831 people in Fayette County. 72% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 28% are rented. Unemployment in Fayette County was 5.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Smithfield is a small borough in Fayette County, and most of its residents own the homes they live in. Winters are cold, with snow on the ground for part of the season, and summers turn warm. The borough sits in the rolling country of southwestern Pennsylvania, where rivers and creeks cut through the hills.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, transport and warehousing, and professional and business services also employing many. Across Fayette County, some of the biggest employers are Uniontown Hospital, Connellsville Area Schools and Nemacolin. Commutes are on the long side, and a fair number of people work from home.
Things to do. Laurel Caverns, a tourist attraction, is a short drive away, as are Cheat Lake, a reservoir, and Friendship Hill, a protected area. For a longer outing, Fallingwater, the museum built over a waterfall and one of the best known houses in the country, is a longer drive away. Quebec Run and Georges Creek are rivers nearby for time by the water.
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- 444households
- 23%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 31 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Fayette County had 37,808 jobs in 2025, 0.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 39° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 62°. About 18 inches of snow and 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Grays Landing weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Fayette County
- NemacolinHotels1,469
- WVU MedicineHealthcare1,175
- Uniontown HospitalGeneral hospital778FTE
- Connellsville Area SDSchool district511FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters448
- Heartland FabricationBarge building399
- Albert Gallatin Area SDSchool district386FTE
- Sensus USAConsumption meters manufacturing380
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 72 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 8,859 people in all across the county; Smithfield has none of its own. Hospitals come 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
FEMA rates every natural hazard here relatively low or very low.
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Smithfield’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 Fayette County and the Pittsburgh, PA metro.
Smithfield home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Smithfield$166,986
- 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.
- Smithfield11
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Smithfield4
Zip codes with a Smithfield address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Smithfield — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.