Telford, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $437,128 (+2.1% in a year), asking rent $1,525 . Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,238 (+117%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,034 +2%
- $428,094$437,128 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $93,795 +27%
- $343,333$437,128 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.
- Telford$2,294
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Telford, PA rose 2.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Telford, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania
Telford is a borough of 4,928 people in Montgomery County. Half its households earn more than $91,058 a year and half less, against $113,915 across Montgomery County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 62% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 38% are rented. Unemployment in Montgomery County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Telford is a small borough in Montgomery County, with a median age a little older than you might expect in a growing suburb. Incomes run below the county's, though few residents live below the poverty line, and most homes are lived in by their owners rather than rented. Winters are cold, with January highs near freezing and lows well below it, and some snow each year. Summers are warm, and rain and melted snow add up to a good deal across the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, professional and business services, and manufacturing. Among the largest workplaces in Telford are Lutheran Community at Telford, a continuing care retirement community, along with Myco Mechanical, a pipe fitting contractor, and The Secant Group, a research and development laboratory. A four-year degree is held by a minority of adults, and the typical commute is a moderate one, with a small group working from home.
Things to do. For a day out, Philadelphia is a longer drive away and holds most of what is nearby on the list. Independence Hall is one of the best known historic sites in the country, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art is a major museum. The Philadelphia Zoo is another longer drive away and suits a family outing.
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- 1,911households
- 25%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Montgomery County had 504,216 jobs in 2025, 0.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 38° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 63°. About 22 inches of snow and 52 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Sellersville weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Telford
- Lutheran Community at TelfordContinuing care retirement communities353
- Myco MechanicalPipe fitting contractors185
- The Secant Group - TelfordPhysical science research and development laboratories or services91
- Grace Inspired MinistriesContinuing care retirement communities45
- TelfordMail and parcel delivery43
- Judge ElectricalLow voltage electrical work37
- H2O SolutionsWater purification equipment manufacturing34
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 7 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 788 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
- Winter weatherrelatively high in parts of TelfordRelatively 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 Telford’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 Montgomery County and the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD metro.
Telford home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Telford$437,128
- Pennsylvania$287,078
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Telford 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.
- Telford20.83%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Telford23
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Telford15
Zip codes with a Telford address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Telford — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.