Spring City, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $508,570 (+2.5% in a year), asking rent $1,720 . Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,453 (+120%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,286 +2%
- $496,284$508,570 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $117,405 +30%
- $391,166$508,570 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.
- Spring City$2,669
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Spring City, PA rose 2.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Spring City, Chester County, Pennsylvania
Spring City is a borough of 3,494 people in Chester County. Half its households earn more than $76,419 a year and half less, against $127,208 across Chester County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. 54% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 46% are rented. Unemployment in Chester County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Spring City is a small borough in Chester County, home to a modest number of people living close together. More households here rent than across the county as a whole, and incomes run well below the county's, though homes still carry a high typical value. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, summers turn warm in July, and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in professional and business services, manufacturing and shops. Across Chester County, some of the largest workplaces are QVC, Chester County Hospital and West Chester University of Pennsylvania. Plenty of people hold a four-year degree, a good number work from home, and the typical commute is a fairly long one.
Things to do. Philadelphia's best-known sights are a longer drive away. Independence Hall is a historic site, the Philadelphia Museum of Art is a museum, and Lincoln Financial Field is a stadium where big games are played. Each makes a full outing rather than a quick trip.
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- 1,998households
- 45%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 29 mintypical commute
- 24%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Chester County had 253,659 jobs in 2025, 0.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 37° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 64°. About 45 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Pottstown Limerick Airport weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Chester County
- QVCTelevision order, home shopping3,505
- CubeSmartWarehousing, self storage3,348
- THE Chester County HospitalGeneral hospital2,218FTE
- West Chester University of PennsylvaniaUniversity or college1,844
- Downingtown Area SDSchool district1,802FTE
- Johnson JohnsonMed tech orthopedics1,577
- West Chester Area SDSchool district1,511FTE
- Paoli HospitalGeneral hospital1,362FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 459 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 63,589 people in all across the county; Spring City has two of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- 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 Spring City’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 Chester County and the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD metro.
Spring City home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Spring City$508,570
- Pennsylvania$287,078
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Spring City 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.
- Spring City32.69%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Spring City27
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Spring City13
Zip codes with a Spring City address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Spring City — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.