Windber, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $121,033 (+0.4% in a year). Somerset, PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$285 (+82%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $506 +0%
- $120,527$121,033 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $7,544 +7%
- $113,489$121,033 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.
- Windber$635
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 54 years.
Typical home values in Windber, PA rose 0.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Windber, Somerset County, Pennsylvania
Windber is a borough of 3,941 people in Somerset County. Half its households earn more than $52,438 a year and half less, against $61,446 across Somerset 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 Somerset County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Somerset 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Windber is a small borough in Somerset County where most homes are lived in by their owners, and the typical home is worth less than in much of the country. Household incomes run below the county's, and a somewhat larger share of residents live below the poverty line than one might expect, with relatively few adults holding a four-year degree. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are mild, with July the warmest and rain and melted snow spread through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and professional and business services also employing many. Windber Area Schools and Kitron Technologies are among the largest workplaces in the borough. The typical commute is short, and only a small share of people work from home. Across Somerset County, unemployment has eased compared with a year earlier, though the number of jobs has slipped slightly.
Things to do. A short drive away, the Stonycreek River and Quemahoning Reservoir offer water to fish and paddle, and Gallitzin State Forest has woodland to walk through. The Johnstown Flood National Memorial and the Johnstown Flood Museum, also a short drive off, tell the story of the 1889 flood. For a longer outing, Blue Knob State Park is a longer drive away.
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- 1,753households
- 21%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 19 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What people in Somerset County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Somerset County had 23,200 jobs in 2025, 0.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 33° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 79° and lows near 61°. About 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Johnstown Cambria County Airport weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Windber
- Windber Area SDSchool district157FTE
- Kitron TechnologiesPrinted circuit laminates manufacturing100
- WindberMail and parcel delivery26
- Glosser Steel WindberSteel merchant wholesalers25
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 151 people in all. School districts come 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 high
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Windber’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 Somerset County and the Somerset, PA metro.
Windber home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Windber$121,033
- Pennsylvania$287,078
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Windber listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Windber27.49%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Windber24
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Windber10
Zip codes with a Windber address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Windber — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.