Vandergrift, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $106,970 (-5.1% in a year), asking rent $1,025 . Pittsburgh, PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$258 (+85%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $5,760 -5%
- $112,729$106,970 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $1,616 +2%
- $105,353$106,970 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.
- Vandergrift$561
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Vandergrift, PA fell 5.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Vandergrift, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania
Vandergrift is a borough of 5,075 people in Armstrong County. Half its households earn more than $50,901 a year and half less, against $65,008 across Armstrong County; 22% of its people live below the poverty line. 54% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 46% are rented. Unemployment in Armstrong County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Vandergrift is a small borough in Armstrong County, home to a younger population than many Pennsylvania towns of its size. Incomes here run below the county's, and more households live below the poverty line than is typical, while slightly more homes are lived in by their owners than by renters. Typical home values are modest, and few adults hold a four-year degree.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, manufacturing, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Armstrong County, some of the largest workplaces are Armstrong Schools, Armstrong County Memorial hospital and Walmart. Jobs in the county slipped a little last year, though unemployment has eased since a year ago, and many residents work from home.
Things to do. The Ohio River and the Allegheny River are both a longer drive away. In the same direction are Pittsburgh institutions such as the Andy Warhol Museum and the Carnegie Museum of Art. Winters are cold and snowy, summers are warm, and rain or melted snow falls throughout the year.
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- 2,199households
- 14%of adults have a degree
- 22%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 20%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Armstrong County had 15,483 jobs in 2025, 1.1% 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 61°. About 29 inches of snow and 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Salina West weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Armstrong County
- Armstrong SDSchool district635FTE
- Armstrong County MemorialGeneral hospital632FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters348
- A.J. Myers and SonsSchool bus services310
- Cook VandergriftInstruments, mechanical microsurgical, manufacturing242
- Allegheny Health Network Home Medical EquipmentOxygen equipment rental241
- Apollo-Ridge SDSchool district191FTE
- Progressive Workshop of Armstrong CountyHabilitation job counseling and training, vocational174
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 47 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,595 people in all across the county; Vandergrift has two of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals 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
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Vandergrift’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 Armstrong County and the Pittsburgh, PA metro.
Vandergrift home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Vandergrift$106,970
- Pennsylvania$287,078
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Vandergrift listings — the market is cooling.
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.
- Vandergrift28.53%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Vandergrift35
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Vandergrift12
Zip codes with a Vandergrift address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Vandergrift — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.