Washington, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $232,484 (+2.9% in a year), asking rent $938 (+7.5%). Pittsburgh, PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$577 (+90%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,473 +3%
- $226,011$232,484 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $36,295 +18%
- $196,189$232,484 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.
- Washington$1,220
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 20 years.
Typical home values in Washington, PA rose 2.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Washington, PA rose 7.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Washington runs $742/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $807 in Oct 2023.
That is $1,680 a month against $938 rent: a $1,220 mortgage payment, plus $211 property tax and $249 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Washington
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$1,680
- Renting$938
- Mortgage only$1,220
Property tax · $211/mo 1.09% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Washington County, PA
Insurance & upkeep · $249/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Washington, Washington County, Pennsylvania
Washington is a city of 13,176 people in Washington County. Half its households earn more than $52,975 a year and half less, against $78,958 across Washington County; 17% of its people live below the poverty line. 45% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 55% are rented. Unemployment in Washington County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 2.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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. Washington is a city in Washington County, Pennsylvania, with a median age close to that of the country as a whole. Incomes in the city run well below the county's, and more people live below the poverty line than most would expect in a county this size. Fewer homes are lived in by their owners than renters' apartments and houses, so renting is common, and a typical rent costs less than a typical monthly mortgage on a home bought at today's values. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers turn warm, with July the warmest.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and in shops. Among the largest workplaces in town are UPMC Washington, a general hospital, Washington & Jefferson College, and the Washington school district. Unemployment across the county is lower than it was a year earlier, and the county has added jobs over the past year. Commutes are short, and only a small share of people work from home.
Things to do. Pittsburgh's attractions are a longer drive away. They include the Andy Warhol Museum and the Carnegie Museum of Natural History for museum visits, and PNC Park, where baseball is played. Meadowcroft Rockshelter, also a longer drive away, is a museum site tied to early human life in the region. The Ohio River and the Monongahela River are among the rivers reached by a longer drive.
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- 6,023households
- 19%of adults have a degree
- 17%below the poverty line
- 19 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Washington County had 89,399 jobs in 2025, 2.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 37° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 62°. About 32 inches of snow and 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Washington Northeast weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Washington
- Upmc WashingtonGeneral hospital1,306FTE
- ChapmanScaffold erecting and dismantling425
- Washington & Jefferson CollegeUniversity or college347
- Washington SDSchool district209FTE
- Duritza EnterprisesGrocery stores122
- Blueprints HeadquartersCommunity action organization agencies104
- WashingtonMail and parcel delivery75
- NiSourceNatural gas distribution71
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 17 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,002 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and school districts from the Common Core of Data (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
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Washington’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 Washington County and the Pittsburgh, PA metro.
Washington home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Washington$232,484
- Pennsylvania$287,078
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Washington listings, and the typical home goes pending in 24 days — 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.
- Washington33.68%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Washington24
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Washington169
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Washington51
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Washington$211,702
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Washington98.29%
Zip codes with a Washington address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Washington — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.