Tarentum, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $149,163 (+0.1% in a year), asking rent $1,122 . Pittsburgh, PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$383 (+96%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $105 +0%
- $149,058$149,163 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $14,182 +11%
- $134,981$149,163 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.
- Tarentum$783
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 35 years.
Typical home values in Tarentum, PA rose 0.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Tarentum, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
Tarentum is a borough of 4,352 people in Allegheny County. Half its households earn more than $45,167 a year and half less, against $78,548 across Allegheny County; 15% of its people live below the poverty line. 72% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 28% are rented. Unemployment in Allegheny County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Allegheny County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Tarentum is a borough in Allegheny County, home to a small community by the standards of the region. Most homes here are lived in by their owners, and typical home values are well below what many buyers expect in a larger metropolitan area. Household incomes run below the county's, and a larger share of residents live below the poverty line than you might assume from the owner-occupied housing. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, while 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, shops, and banks, insurance and property. Among the largest workplaces in Tarentum are Blackburn's Physicians Pharmacy, Weleski Transfer and Kelsen, USA. Unemployment across the county has eased compared with a year earlier, though the number of jobs has slipped slightly, and a typical commute is a modest one.
Things to do. The rivers that shape this part of Pennsylvania are within a longer drive, including the Allegheny River, the Ohio River and the Monongahela River. For a day out, the Carnegie Museum of Natural History and the Andy Warhol Museum are both a longer drive away, and PNC Park, a stadium, is as well. Each makes for a full trip rather than a quick errand.
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- 2,020households
- 27%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What people in Allegheny County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Allegheny County had 670,169 jobs in 2025, 0.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 36° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 63°. About 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Natrona Lock weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Tarentum
- Blackburn's Physicians PharmacyHospital equipment rental143
- Weleski TransferVan lines, moving and storage services100
- Kelsen, USARefractories, clay, manufacturing45
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 288 people in all. 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
- Inland floodingVery high
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Tarentum’s census tracts, 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 Allegheny County and the Pittsburgh, PA metro.
Tarentum home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Tarentum$149,163
- Pennsylvania$287,078
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Tarentum 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.
- Tarentum26.06%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Tarentum26
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Tarentum8
Zip codes with a Tarentum address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Tarentum — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.