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Housing in Dunbar

A typical Dunbar home is worth roughly $88,000

The median sale price was $355,000 in February 2026.

Typical home value
$88K
PA $255K
Estimate
Median sale price
$355K
February 2026 · Redfin
Homes sold
1
in February · 2 for sale
2-bedroom rent
$980
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$903
PA $3,311

Only 1 sale in February 2026: in a market this size, monthly medians swing a lot, so the typical value is the steadier guide.

What kind of housing town is Dunbar?

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

★ What stands out · Affordability

A typical home costs 1.5 years of income

Less than across Pennsylvania (3.3 years). Try your own numbers below.

You could afford about
$218,000
Typical Dunbar home $88K

That covers a typical Dunbar home, with $130K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$540
Loan $440Tax $80Insurance $30

A two-bedroom rents for about $980 a month here, $440 more than owning.

How Dunbar ranks on affordability →

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Dunbar’s typical property tax (1.02% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.

The homes

79% of Dunbar households own their home

Half of Dunbar’s homes were built before 1952.

Owners and renters
Own 79%Rent 21%

Pennsylvania: 69% own.

1952
typical home built · PA 1965
$903
median property tax bill · PA $3,311
1.02%
of a home’s value, a year in tax · PA 1.30%

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

Renting

A two-bedroom rents for about $980

Renters already here pay a median of $768, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$760
1 bedroom$810
2 bedrooms$980
3 bedrooms$1,250
4 bedrooms$1,350
21%
of households rent · PA 31%
86
renter households
$768
median rent paid today · Census

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.

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Home values: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), Zillow Research. Sales, days on market and supply: Redfin Data Center, February 2026. 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.

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