Volant, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $253,340 (+2.6% in a year). New Castle, PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$55 (+4%) since Dec 2023.
- 1 year
- Up $6,390 +3%
- $246,949$253,340 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.
- Volant$1,330
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Volant, PA rose 2.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Volant, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania
Volant is a borough of 126 people in Lawrence County. Unemployment in Lawrence County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 1.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Lawrence County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Volant is a very small borough in Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, with a population that is among the smallest of any town its kind. Residents are older than in most of the country, and very few live below the poverty line. Homes here are valued above what is typical for many small Pennsylvania towns.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, retail and professional and business services also common. Across Lawrence County, some of the largest workplaces are UPMC Jameson, Help At Home and Walmart. Unemployment in the county is a little lower than a year ago, and the county has added jobs over the past year. Few people in Volant work from home.
Things to do. Hottenbaugh Run flows in or beside town, and Taylor Run and Cascade Park, an amusement park, are a short drive away. For a longer outing, Moraine State Park is a protected area that takes a longer drive to reach, as does the Butler Institute of American Art, a museum. Winters are cold and summers are warm, so many outings suit the warmer months.
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- 2%below the poverty line
- 5%work from home
What people in Lawrence County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lawrence County had 27,269 jobs in 2025, 1.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 35° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 56°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mercer weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lawrence County
- Upmc JamesonGeneral hospital762FTE
- Help At HomeHomemaker's service for elderly or disabled persons, non-medical680
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters432
- New Castle Area SDSchool district345FTE
- FirstEnergyDistribution of electric power342
- Westminster CollegeUniversity or college337
- Wilson Excavating and Utility ConstructionDistribution line, sewer and water, construction281
- Ellwood Quality SteelsSteel mills245
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 74 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 7,890 people in all across the county; Volant has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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 moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Volant’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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 Lawrence County and the New Castle, PA metro.
Volant home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Volant$253,340
- 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.
- Volant8
Zip codes with a Volant address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Volant — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.