Wampum, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $168,267 (+1.4% in a year). New Castle, PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$415 (+89%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,342 +1%
- $165,925$168,267 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $23,113 +16%
- $145,154$168,267 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.
- Wampum$883
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 23 years.
Typical home values in Wampum, PA rose 1.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Wampum, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania
Wampum is a borough of 559 people in Lawrence County. Half its households earn more than $48,929 a year and half less, against $61,931 across Lawrence County; 21% of its people live below the poverty line. 62% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 38% are rented. 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 residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Wampum is a small borough in Lawrence County, among the smaller places in western Pennsylvania. Household incomes here run below the county's, and a good share of residents live below the poverty line. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and relatively few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest. Rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, retail and other services also employing many. Across Lawrence County, some of the largest workplaces are Upmc Jameson, a general hospital, Walmart, and New Castle Area Schools. Commutes are fairly long, and only a small share of people work from home. Unemployment across the county is lower than it was a year earlier, and the county has added jobs.
Things to do. State Game Lands Number 148, a protected area, and Wampum Run, a small river, are in or beside town, as is the Pittsburgh International Race Complex, a race track. A short drive away are the Shenango River, McConnells Mill State Park, a protected area, and Cascade Park, an amusement park.
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- 250households
- 13%of adults have a degree
- 21%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents 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 36° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 61°. About 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Beaver Falls Northeast weather station, 9 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; Wampum 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 Wampum’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.
Wampum home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Wampum$168,267
- 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.
- Wampum10
Zip codes with a Wampum address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Wampum — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.