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Housing in Cooperstown

A typical Cooperstown home is worth about $156,000

About the same as a year ago, 46% below the Pennsylvania typical home.

Typical home value
$156K
▼ 0.1% in a year · PA $290K
Zillow
2-bedroom rent
$1,450
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$1,250
PA $3,311

What kind of housing town is Cooperstown?

Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.

★ What stands out · Affordability

What it takes to buy in Cooperstown

Try your own numbers below.

You could afford about
$288,000
Typical Cooperstown home $156K

That covers a typical Cooperstown home, with $131K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$990
Loan $770Tax $170Insurance $50

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,450 a month here, $460 more than owning.

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, the Pennsylvania typical property tax (1.30% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.

Price trend

Up 4.9% in five years

Slower than Pennsylvania (22.3%).

CooperstownPennsylvania
$100K$150K$200K$250K$300K20182020202220242026
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JanuaryCooperstownPennsylvania
2017$111,000$173,000
2018$114,000$181,000
2019$115,000$188,000
2020$118,000$198,000
2021$137,000$219,000
2022$150,000$240,000
2023$158,000$257,000
2024$155,000$268,000
2025$163,000$280,000
2026$153,000$287,000
August 2026$156,000$290,000
Then & now

A typical Cooperstown home worth $113K in September 2016 is worth about $156K today.

+$44K
−0.1%
past year
+4.9%
past 5 years
+38.7%
since 2016

Zillow Home Value Index: the typical value of all homes (middle third), smoothed and seasonally adjusted, through August 2026.

Renting

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,450

Renters already here pay a median of $942, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$1,000
1 bedroom$1,110
2 bedrooms$1,450
3 bedrooms$1,820
4 bedrooms$2,080
16%
of households rent · PA 31%
21
renter households
$942
median rent paid today · Census

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Crawford County, PA): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.

New construction

No new homes permitted in 2025

No permits for new homes were issued in Cooperstown in 2025 or in any year since 2000.

Single-family
01 200020052010201520202025
0
new homes permitted in 2025
0
2026 so far (Jan–Aug)
0
homes in the past 10 years
Homes vs. people, 2010–2020
Residents−61
New homes+0

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses, Cooperstown's population fell by 61 and no new homes were permitted. Across Pennsylvania: 1.4 new residents per new home.

Every year as a table
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Homes authorized by building permits, counted in the year the permit was issued. U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey.

The homes

85% of Cooperstown households own their home

Half of Cooperstown’s homes were built before 1962.

Owners and renters
Own 85%Rent 16%

Pennsylvania: 69% own.

1962
typical home built · PA 1965
$1,250
median property tax bill · PA $3,311

U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error.

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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. 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.

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