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Housing in Paris

A typical Paris home is worth roughly $202,000

Home prices around Paris have risen about 50% over the past 5 years.

Typical home value
$202K
▲ 10.5% in a year · PA $290K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$1,120
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$1,753
PA $3,311

What kind of housing town is Paris?

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

★ What stands out · Price trend

Home prices up 50% in 5 years

The federal house price index for the ZIP code around Paris rose 50% over the past 5 years, about the same as across Pennsylvania. Last year prices rose 11%.

Paris areaPennsylvania
0%+50%+100%+150%+200%200020052010201520202025
+11%
past year
+50%
past 5 years
+65%
past 10 years

Federal Housing Finance Agency House Price Index (annual) for the ZIP codes around Paris, weighted by land area. It tracks repeat sales of the same homes, so it shows how prices changed, not what homes cost.

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
$344,000
Typical Paris home $202K

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

The typical home, each month
$1,210
Loan $1,000Tax $150Insurance $60

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,120 a month here, $90 less than owning.

Where your budget reaches nearby

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Paris’s typical property tax (0.87% 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

95% of Paris households own their home

Half of Paris’s homes were built before 1958.

Owners and renters
Own 95%Rent 6%

Pennsylvania: 69% own.

1958
typical home built · PA 1965
$1,753
median property tax bill · PA $3,311
0.87%
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 $1,120

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$860
1 bedroom$930
2 bedrooms$1,120
3 bedrooms$1,430
4 bedrooms$1,540
6%
of households rent · PA 31%
8
renter households

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.

Next door

Paris vs. its neighbors

Paris is the 2nd least expensive of 3 neighboring towns. Tap one to see its housing page.

Compare more
TownTypical value1-yr change2-bed rentNew homes 2025Median income
Paris$202K*+10.5%†$1,120—$88,125
Weirton$150K+6.6%$9704$59,575
Hanover$208K*+11.2%†$1,1301$81,875

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. Price trend: Federal Housing Finance Agency House Price Index. 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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