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Housing in Laboratory

A typical Laboratory home is worth roughly $183,000

Typical home value
$183K
PA $290K
Estimate
Median tax bill
$2,892
PA $3,311

What kind of housing town is Laboratory?

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

★ What stands out · Affordability

A typical home costs 2.3 years of income

Less than across Pennsylvania (3.7 years). Try your own numbers below.

You could afford about
$285,000
Typical Laboratory home $183K

That covers a typical Laboratory home, with $102K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$1,200
Loan $910Tax $240Insurance $50
Where your budget reaches nearby

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Laboratory’s typical property tax (1.58% 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

65% of Laboratory households own their home

Half of Laboratory’s homes were built before 1959.

Owners and renters
Own 65%Rent 35%

Pennsylvania: 69% own.

1959
typical home built · PA 1965
$2,892
median property tax bill · PA $3,311
1.58%
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.

Next door

Laboratory vs. its neighbors

Laboratory is the least expensive of 3 neighboring towns. Tap one to see its housing page.

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TownTypical value1-yr change2-bed rentNew homes 2025Median income
Laboratory$183K*———$80,167
South Strabane$269K*+1.6%†$1,20043$87,847
Amwell$232K*+0.7%†$1,2002$77,895

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.

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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. Listings link to their publishers. The calculator is an estimate, not a loan offer.

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