A typical Grindstone home is worth about $93,000
Down 3.1% in a year, 68% below the Pennsylvania typical home.
What kind of housing town is Grindstone?
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What it takes to buy in Grindstone
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That covers a typical Grindstone home, with $195K to spare.
A two-bedroom rents for about $1,210 a month here, $620 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.
Up 0.8% in five years
Slower than Pennsylvania (22.3%).
Show as a table
| January | Grindstone | Pennsylvania |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | $68,000 | $173,000 |
| 2018 | $69,000 | $181,000 |
| 2019 | $79,000 | $188,000 |
| 2020 | $74,000 | $198,000 |
| 2021 | $89,000 | $219,000 |
| 2022 | $90,000 | $240,000 |
| 2023 | $88,000 | $257,000 |
| 2024 | $101,000 | $268,000 |
| 2025 | $96,000 | $280,000 |
| 2026 | $96,000 | $287,000 |
| August 2026 | $93,000 | $290,000 |
A typical Grindstone home worth $70K in September 2016 is worth about $93K today.
Zillow Home Value Index: the typical value of all homes (middle third), smoothed and seasonally adjusted, through August 2026.
49% of Grindstone households own their home
Half of Grindstone’s homes were built before 1938.
Pennsylvania: 69% own.
U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error.
A two-bedroom rents for about $1,210
Renters already here pay a median of $1,057, 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 (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.
Grindstone vs. its neighbors
Grindstone is the 2nd least expensive of 3 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 Grindstone 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.