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Housing in Rossiter

A typical Rossiter home is worth about $147,000

Up 3.2% in a year, 50% below the Pennsylvania typical home.

Typical home value
$147K
▲ 3.2% in a year · PA $290K
Zillow
Median sale price
$80K
March 2026 · Redfin
Homes sold
1
in March · 2 for sale
2-bedroom rent
$1,130
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$850
PA $3,311

Only 1 sale in March 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 Rossiter?

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

★ What stands out · Affordability

A typical home costs 1.9 years of income

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

You could afford about
$296,000
Typical Rossiter home $147K

That covers a typical Rossiter home, with $150K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$880
Loan $730Tax $110Insurance $40

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,130 a month here, $250 more than owning.

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Rossiter’s typical property tax (0.89% 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

69% of Rossiter households own their home

Half of Rossiter’s homes were built before 1940.

Owners and renters
Own 69%Rent 31%

Pennsylvania: 69% own.

1940
typical home built · PA 1965
$850
median property tax bill · PA $3,311
0.89%
of a home’s value, a year in tax · PA 1.30%
5%
of homes are seasonal or vacation homes

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

Price trend

Up 15.1% in five years

Slower than Pennsylvania (22.3%).

RossiterPennsylvania
$100K$150K$200K$250K$300K202220242026
Show as a table
JanuaryRossiterPennsylvania
2021$128,000$219,000
2022$124,000$240,000
2023$130,000$257,000
2024$132,000$268,000
2025$141,000$280,000
2026$142,000$287,000
August 2026$147,000$290,000
Then & now

A typical Rossiter home worth $113K in February 2020 is worth about $147K today.

+$34K
+3.2%
past year
+15.1%
past 5 years
+29.8%
since 2020

Zillow Home Value Index: the typical value of all homes (middle third), smoothed and seasonally adjusted, through August 2026.

Renting

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,130

Renters already here pay a median of $1,039.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$850
1 bedroom$950
2 bedrooms$1,130
3 bedrooms$1,480
4 bedrooms$1,700
31%
of households rent · PA 31%
59
renter households
$1,039
median rent paid today · Census

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Indiana County, PA): 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, August 2026. Sales, days on market and supply: Redfin Data Center, March 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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