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Housing in Trooper

A typical Trooper home is worth about $519,000

Up 1.6% in a year, 79% above the Pennsylvania typical home.

Typical home value
$519K
▲ 1.6% in a year · PA $290K
Zillow
Median sale price
$675K
May 2026 · Redfin
Homes sold
4
in May · 11 for sale
2-bedroom rent
$2,000
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$5,837
PA $3,311

Only 4 sales in May 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 Trooper?

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

★ What stands out · Affordability

A typical home costs 3.9 years of income

About the same as across Pennsylvania. Try your own numbers below.

You could afford about
$490,000
Typical Trooper home $519K

That’s $30K short of a typical Trooper home.

The typical home, each month
$3,290
Loan $2,570Tax $570Insurance $150

A two-bedroom rents for about $2,000 a month here, $1,290 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, Trooper’s typical property tax (1.31% 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 Trooper households own their home

Half of Trooper’s homes were built before 1968.

Owners and renters
Own 95%Rent 5%

Pennsylvania: 69% own.

1968
typical home built · PA 1965
$5,837
median property tax bill · PA $3,311
1.31%
of a home’s value, a year in tax · PA 1.30%

U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024.

Price trend

Up 29.2% in five years

Faster than Pennsylvania (22.3%).

TrooperPennsylvania
$150K$200K$250K$300K$350K$400K$450K$500K$550K20182020202220242026
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JanuaryTrooperPennsylvania
2017$300,000$173,000
2018$316,000$181,000
2019$321,000$188,000
2020$334,000$198,000
2021$371,000$219,000
2022$401,000$240,000
2023$441,000$257,000
2024$473,000$268,000
2025$499,000$280,000
2026$510,000$287,000
August 2026$519,000$290,000
Then & now

A typical Trooper home worth $298K in September 2016 is worth about $519K today.

+$221K
+1.6%
past year
+29.2%
past 5 years
+74%
since 2016

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 $2,000

Renters already here pay a median of $1,298, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$1,540
1 bedroom$1,680
2 bedrooms$2,000
3 bedrooms$2,400
4 bedrooms$2,680
5%
of households rent · PA 31%
76
renter households
59%
of renters spend 30%+ of income on rent · PA 48%
18%
of the median income, for a two-bedroom
$1,298
median rent paid today · Census

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD MSA): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.

Next door

Trooper vs. its neighbors

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

Compare more
TownTypical value1-yr change2-bed rentMedian income
Trooper$519K+1.6%$2,000$133,214
Eagleville$408K+2%$2,070$103,793
Audubon$569K+3.2%$2,010$111,234

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, August 2026. Sales, days on market and supply: Redfin Data Center, May 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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