Spring Mills, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $348,954 (+3.3% in a year). State College, PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$903 (+97%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,989 +3%
- $337,965$348,954 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $68,300 +24%
- $280,654$348,954 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 Mills$1,832
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Spring Mills, PA rose 3.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Spring Mills, Centre County, Pennsylvania
Spring Mills, in Centre County, had 365 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $68,750 a year and half less, against $74,291 across Centre County; 4% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Centre County was 3.0% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Centre County work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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 Mills is a very small community in Centre County, with far fewer residents than most towns. Household incomes run a little below the county's, and a small share of people live below the poverty line. Homes here are valued well above what many older homeowners might expect for a rural spot, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than you might find in the university towns nearby. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers are warm and July is the warmest. Rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by restaurants, hotels and entertainment, shops, and professional and business services. The commute is a bit longer than a quick hop across town, and only a small share of people work from home. Across Centre County, the largest workplaces include Pennsylvania State University, Mount Nittany Medical Center and State College Area Schools. Unemployment in the county is lower than it was a year earlier, and the county has added a few more jobs than it had the year before.
Things to do. Sinking Creek runs in or beside town, and Elk Creek and Pine Creek are rivers a short drive away. Bald Eagle State Forest is a protected area a short drive away, as is Poe Valley State Park, which makes for easy outdoor trips close to home. Beaver Stadium is a longer drive away and is the big draw for game days.
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- 17%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What people in Centre County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Centre County had 69,346 jobs in 2025, 1.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 58°. About 35 inches of snow and 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Millheim weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Centre County
- Pennsylvania State UniversityUniversity or college17,378
- Mount Nittany Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,612FTE
- State College Area SDSchool district1,296FTE
- Bellefonte Area SDSchool district406FTE
- Restek Corporation BellefonteGas chromatographic instruments, industrial process-type, manufacturing387
- Wegmans Food MarketsRetail supermarkets379
- Pennsylvania State University-World CampusUniversity or college366
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters344
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 117 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 13,157 people in all across the county; Spring Mills has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Spring Mills’ 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 Centre County and the State College, PA metro.
Spring Mills home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Spring Mills$348,954
- 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.
- Spring Mills13
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Spring Mills address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Spring Mills — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.