A typical Cook home is worth roughly $213,000
Builders were permitted 3 new homes in 2025.
What kind of housing town is Cook?
Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.
A typical home costs 3 years of income
Less than across Pennsylvania (3.7 years). Try your own numbers below.
That covers a typical Cook home, with $62K to spare.
A two-bedroom rents for about $1,090 a month here, $190 less than owning.
An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Cook’s typical property tax (0.94% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.
92% of Cook households own their home
Half of Cook’s homes were built before 1971.
Pennsylvania: 69% own.
U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024.
A two-bedroom rents for about $1,090
Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Pittsburgh, PA HUD Metro FMR Area): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.
3 new homes permitted in 2025
Builders were permitted 3 new homes in Cook in 2025, all single-family houses, worth about $1.1 million to build. That's 1.2 per 1,000 residents, slower than across Pennsylvania (2). Over the past 10 years, Cook has permitted 4 homes in all.
Every year as a table
| Year | New homes | Single-family | 2+ per building | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Jan–Aug) | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2025 | 3 | 3 | 0 | $1.1 million |
| 2024 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $532,000 |
| 2023 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2022 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2021 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2020 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2019 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2018 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2017 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2016 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2015 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2014 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2013 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
Homes authorized by building permits, counted in the year the permit was issued. U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey.
Cook vs. its neighbors
Cook is the 3rd least expensive of 6 neighboring towns. Tap one to see its housing page.
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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 Cook buyers, sellers and renters are saying.
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Home values: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), Zillow Research. Sales, days on market and supply: Redfin Data Center. Income, ownership, taxes and rent: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey. New homes: U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits 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.