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Housing in Jefferson

A typical Jefferson home is worth roughly $146,000

No new homes were permitted in 2025.

Typical home value
$146K
PA $290K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$1,090
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$1,550
PA $3,311

What kind of housing town is Jefferson?

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

★ What stands out · Affordability

What it takes to buy in Jefferson

Try your own numbers below.

You could afford about
$288,000
Typical Jefferson home $146K

That covers a typical Jefferson home, with $142K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$920
Loan $720Tax $160Insurance $40

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,090 a month here, $170 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.

The homes

85% of Jefferson households own their home

Half of Jefferson’s homes were built before 1951.

Owners and renters
Own 85%Rent 15%

Pennsylvania: 69% own.

1951
typical home built · PA 1965
$1,550
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.

Renting

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,090

Renters already here pay a median of $842, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$820
1 bedroom$830
2 bedrooms$1,090
3 bedrooms$1,310
4 bedrooms$1,440
15%
of households rent · PA 31%
19
renter households
$842
median rent paid today · Census

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Greene 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 Jefferson in 2025 or in any year since 2013.

Single-family
01 2013201520202025
0
new homes permitted in 2025
0
2026 so far (Jan–Aug)
0
homes in the past 10 years
Every year as a table
YearNew homesSingle-family2+ per buildingValue
2026 (Jan–Aug)000—
2025000—
2024000—
2023000—
2022000—
2021000—
2020000—
2019000—
2018000—
2017000—
2016000—
2015000—
2014000—
2013000—

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

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Listed in the past 60 days. Each opens on the listing site.

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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.

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