Williamsburg, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $180,401 (+6.6% in a year). Altoona, PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$387 (+69%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $11,232 +7%
- $169,169$180,401 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.
- Williamsburg$947
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Williamsburg, PA rose 6.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Williamsburg, Blair County, Pennsylvania
Williamsburg is a borough of 1,233 people in Blair County. Half its households earn more than $50,952 a year and half less, against $62,382 across Blair County; 14% of its people live below the poverty line. 70% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 30% are rented. Unemployment in Blair County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% more 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Williamsburg is a small borough in Blair County, home to a small number of people. Residents are around the middle of the age range, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Incomes run below the county's, and a four-year degree is less common among adults here than in many towns. Winters are cold and cloudy with snow, summers are warm, and precipitation is steady through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, manufacturing and professional and business services. Across Blair County, some of the largest workplaces are UPMC Altoona, Altoona Area Schools and the Veterans Health Administration. The typical commute is a fairly long one, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Clover Creek and Snare Run flow in or beside town, which makes a walk along the water easy. A short drive away are Canoe Creek State Park, a protected area, and Lakemont Park, an amusement park. A longer drive brings you to Raystown Lake, a large reservoir.
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- 474households
- 11%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Blair County had 58,360 jobs in 2025, 0.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 36° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 64°. About 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Raystown Headquarters weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Blair County
- Sheetz Distribution Services (Claysburg, PA)General warehousing and storage1,433
- Upmc AltoonaGeneral hospital1,317FTE
- Altoona Area SDSchool district1,097FTE
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs954
- University of Pittsburgh Medical CenterHome health care services674
- New PigResins, plastics, manufacturing516
- University of Pittsburgh Medical CenterOffices of physicians509
- Pennsylvania State University-Penn State AltoonaUniversity or college473
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 133 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 18,304 people in all across the county; Williamsburg has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026) 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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Williamsburg’s census tracts, 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 Blair County and the Altoona, PA metro.
Williamsburg home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Williamsburg$180,401
- 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.
- Williamsburg6
Zip codes with a Williamsburg address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Williamsburg — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.