Thomasville, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $334,597 (+2.3% in a year). York-Hanover, PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$192 (+12%) since Jan 2024.
- 1 year
- Up $7,366 +2%
- $327,232$334,597 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.
- Thomasville$1,756
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Thomasville, PA rose 2.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Thomasville, York County, Pennsylvania
The Census does not count Thomasville on its own, so the figures here are York County's. Half the county's households earn more than $84,829 a year and half less; 8% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 76% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 24% are rented. Unemployment in York County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in York County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Thomasville is a town in York County, in south-central Pennsylvania. Winters are cold, summers are warm, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year. Across York County, most homes are lived in by their owners.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, manufacturing, shops, and professional and business services. Across York County, unemployment is lower than a year ago, jobs are roughly steady, and a minority of adults hold a four-year degree.
Things to do. Hersheypark, an amusement park a longer drive away, is the best known nearby draw. Gettysburg National Military Park, an archaeological site a longer drive off, covers historic battlefield ground. Gifford Pinchot State Park, a protected area a short drive away, offers open land close by.
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- 181,583households
- 41.1median age
- 28%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What people in York County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. York County had 182,806 jobs in 2025, 0.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 39° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 63°. About 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the York Airport weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in York County
- York HospitalGeneral hospital3,582FTE
- Comprehensive Logistics - YorkGeneral warehousing and storage2,324
- BAE SystemsArmored military vehicles and parts manufacturing1,970
- Kinsley ConstructionWarehouse, industrial, construction1,820
- Harley-DavidsonMotorcycles and parts manufacturing1,146
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage1,051
- FedExCourier and express delivery services987
- Storage Asset ManagementEquity real estate investment trusts, primarily leasing miniwarehouses and self-storage units960
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 516 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 76,359 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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 weatherVery high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across York 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 York County and the York-Hanover, PA metro.
Thomasville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Thomasville$334,597
- 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.
- Thomasville5
Zip codes with a Thomasville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Thomasville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.