Strabane, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $175,636 (+7.3% in a year). Pittsburgh, PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$98 (+12%) since Jan 2024.
- 1 year
- Up $11,920 +7%
- $163,716$175,636 since Sep 2025
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.
- Strabane$922
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Strabane, PA rose 7.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Strabane, Washington County, Pennsylvania
Strabane is in Washington County. Unemployment in Washington County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 2.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Washington County work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Strabane is a community in Washington County, in southwestern Pennsylvania, where few residents live below the poverty line. Winters here are cold and snowy, with more snow than in many parts of the country, while summers are warm and the year is generally wet. Residents tend to know one another, and the town sits within easy reach of the county's services.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in shops, professional and business services, and manufacturing. Across Washington County, job numbers rose over the past year and unemployment eased, and the typical commute is short enough that many people drive to work nearby.
Things to do. For a longer day out, the Ohio River is a broad waterway a longer drive away, popular for a walk along its banks. The Carnegie Museum of Natural History is a museum a longer drive away, and Acrisure Stadium is a stadium a longer drive away, which is home to professional football.
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- 2%below the poverty line
- 19 mintypical commute
What people in Washington County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Washington County had 89,399 jobs in 2025, 2.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 37° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 62°. About 32 inches of snow and 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Washington Northeast weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Washington County
- Pennsylvania Western UniversityUniversity or college1,537
- Songer ServicesAddition, alteration and renovation, general contractors, industrial building1,319
- Upmc WashingtonGeneral hospital1,306FTE
- Lighthouse Electric CompanyElectrical contractors1,024
- Canon-McMillan SDSchool district676FTE
- Campbell Transportation Company (Vessel Operations)Freight transportation, inland waters672
- Monongahela Valley HospitalGeneral hospital668FTE
- Penn EntertainmentCasino hotels663
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 198 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 27,053 people in all across the county; Strabane 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
- LightningRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Washington County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Washington County and the Pittsburgh, PA metro.
Strabane home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Strabane$175,636
- 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.
Zip codes with a Strabane address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Strabane — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.