A typical Sullivan home is worth roughly $282,000
Builders were permitted 3 new homes in 2025.
A typical home costs 3.2 years of income
Less than across Pennsylvania (3.7 years). Try your own numbers below.
That covers a typical Sullivan home, with $72K to spare.
A two-bedroom rents for about $1,040 a month here, $590 less than owning.
An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Sullivan’s typical property tax (0.66% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.
A two-bedroom rents for about $1,040
Renters already here pay a median of $1,260.
Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Tioga County, PA): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.
3 new homes permitted in 2025
Builders were permitted 3 new homes in Sullivan in 2025, all single-family houses, worth about $1.7 million to build. That's 2.2 per 1,000 residents, about the pace of Pennsylvania as a whole. Over the past 10 years, Sullivan has permitted 19 homes in all.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses, Sullivan gained 13 residents while 30 new homes were permitted: about 0.4 new residents per new home. Building outpaced population growth, which usually means smaller households or homes used part of the year. Across Pennsylvania: 1.4 new residents per new home.
Every year as a table
| Year | New homes | Single-family | 2+ per building | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Jan–Aug) | 2 | 2 | 0 | $880,000 |
| 2025 | 3 | 3 | 0 | $1.7 million |
| 2024 | 3 | 3 | 0 | $991,000 |
| 2023 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2022 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2021 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $275,000 |
| 2020 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2019 | 4 | 4 | 0 | $983,000 |
| 2018 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $300,000 |
| 2017 | 4 | 4 | 0 | $659,000 |
| 2016 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $274,000 |
| 2015 | 3 | 3 | 0 | $727,000 |
| 2014 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $211,000 |
| 2013 | 6 | 6 | 0 | $1.2 million |
| 2012 | 6 | 6 | 0 | $1.1 million |
| 2011 | 3 | 3 | 0 | $519,000 |
| 2010 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2009 | 3 | 3 | 0 | $460,000 |
| 2008 | 5 | 5 | 0 | $845,000 |
| 2007 | 5 | 5 | 0 | $720,000 |
| 2006 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $333,000 |
| 2005 | 3 | 3 | 0 | $517,000 |
| 2004 | 4 | 4 | 0 | $415,000 |
| 2003 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $100,000 |
| 2002 | 4 | 4 | 0 | $650,000 |
| 2001 | 4 | 4 | 0 | $366,000 |
| 2000 | 6 | 6 | 0 | $450,000 |
Homes authorized by building permits, counted in the year the permit was issued. U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey.
86% of Sullivan households own their home
Half of Sullivan’s homes were built before 1978.
Pennsylvania: 69% own.
U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024.
Sullivan vs. its neighbors
Sullivan is the priciest of 4 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.
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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.