Smock, Pennsylvania.
. Pittsburgh, PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$793 (+111%) since Jan 2020.
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.
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
Living in Smock, Fayette County, Pennsylvania
Smock, in Fayette County, had 549 people in the 2020 census. 98% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 2% 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 people in Fayette County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Smock is a small community in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, where nearly every home is lived in by its owner. Winters are cold, with January highs staying close to freezing and lows well below it, and a fair amount of snow falls over the year. Summers are warm, and precipitation is steady through the seasons.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, manufacturing, and restaurants and hotels. Few work from home. Across Fayette County, some of the largest employers are Uniontown Hospital, Connellsville Area Schools and Walmart. Unemployment across the county has eased from a year earlier, though the number of jobs has slipped slightly.
Things to do. A short drive away, Shady Grove Park offers green space close to home, and the State Theatre Center for the Arts is a place to catch a show. For a longer outing, Ohiopyle State Park is a protected area along the Youghiogheny River, and Fallingwater is a museum that draws visitors from well beyond the region.
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What people in Fayette County 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 40° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 62°. About 28 inches of snow and 44 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Uniontown Northeast weather station, 7 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; Smock 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
- Lightningrelatively high in parts of SmockRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingrelatively high in parts of SmockRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Smock’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.
Smock home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Smock11
Zip codes with a Smock address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Smock — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.