A typical Blanchard home is worth about $219,000
Up 0.8% in a year, 24% below the Pennsylvania typical home.
What kind of housing town is Blanchard?
Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.
A typical home costs 2.9 years of income
Less than across Pennsylvania (3.7 years). Try your own numbers below.
That covers a typical Blanchard home, with $75K to spare.
A two-bedroom rents for about $1,290 a month here, $30 less than owning.
An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Blanchard’s typical property tax (0.93% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.
Up 8.1% in five years
Slower than Pennsylvania (22.3%).
Show as a table
| January | Blanchard | Pennsylvania |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | $149,000 | $173,000 |
| 2018 | $170,000 | $181,000 |
| 2019 | $170,000 | $188,000 |
| 2020 | $185,000 | $198,000 |
| 2021 | $197,000 | $219,000 |
| 2022 | $192,000 | $240,000 |
| 2023 | $202,000 | $257,000 |
| 2024 | $213,000 | $268,000 |
| 2025 | $216,000 | $280,000 |
| 2026 | $211,000 | $287,000 |
| August 2026 | $219,000 | $290,000 |
A typical Blanchard home worth $148K in September 2016 is worth about $219K today.
Zillow Home Value Index: the typical value of all homes (middle third), smoothed and seasonally adjusted, through August 2026.
A two-bedroom rents for about $1,290
Renters already here pay a median of $1,060, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.
Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (State College, PA MSA): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.
80% of Blanchard households own their home
Half of Blanchard’s homes were built before 1960.
Pennsylvania: 69% own.
U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error.
Blanchard vs. its neighbors
Blanchard is the priciest of 3 neighboring towns. Tap one to see its housing page.
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| Town | Typical value | 1-yr change | 2-bed rent | New homes 2025 | Median income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blanchard | $219K | +0.8% | $1,290 | — | $76,250 |
| Beech Creek | $169K* | — | $1,290 | 0 | $56,111 |
| Liberty | $160K* | — | $1,290 | 0 | $75,766 |
Typical value: Zillow Home Value Index; * Census median home value where Zillow has none. † FHFA price index change where Zillow has none. Rent: HUD Fair Market Rent. New homes: Census building permits.
Neighbors talk housing
What Blanchard buyers, sellers and renters are saying.
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Home values: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), Zillow Research, August 2026. Sales, days on market and supply: Redfin Data Center. Income, ownership, taxes and rent: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey. Fair Market Rents: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Listings link to their publishers. The calculator is an estimate, not a loan offer.