Typical Cost of a House in Chester County, Pennsylvania
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The median home value in Chester County is $485,600, measured over 2020–2024. That is 90.8% above the Pennsylvania median of $254,500. Half of owner-occupied homes are valued above that figure and half below.
Median home value
$485,600
2020–2024, give or take $4,003
Against Pennsylvania
+90.8%
AbovePennsylvania $254,500
Against the U.S.
+46.0%
AboveU.S. $332,700
Monthly housing costs in Chester County
What households actually pay each month, for those who own with a mortgage and those who rent, compared with Pennsylvania as a whole.
Owning with a mortgage
$2,660a month
+51.0%Pennsylvania $1,762
Median of mortgage payments, property taxes, insurance, utilities and fees together.
Renting
$1,763a month
+45.8%Pennsylvania $1,209
Median gross rent: the rent itself plus utilities the renter pays.
Where Chester County sits among Pennsylvania's counties
Each tick is one county's median home value. The highlighted band holds the middle half of them, and the dark line is the median. Chester County is the 1st highest of 67.
What this figure is
It is not a sale price. The Census Bureau asks homeowners what they think their home would sell for, and this is the middle answer for owner-occupied homes in Chester County. It covers every kind of home people own and live in, so the price of a particular house on the market can be far from it.
The figure describes the whole of 2020–2024, not a single year, and it is not adjusted for price changes since then. The smaller a county, the fewer households the survey reaches and the less exact its estimate: here the true value is very likely within $4,003 of the one shown.
Common questions
How much does a house cost in Chester County, Pennsylvania?
- The median home value in Chester County, Pennsylvania is $485,600, from Census Bureau survey data for 2020–2024. Half of owner-occupied homes are valued above that and half below.
What is the average home price in Chester County, Pennsylvania?
- The Census Bureau publishes a median rather than an average: $485,600 for 2020–2024. It is what owners estimate their homes would sell for, not a record of recent sale prices.
How much is a monthly mortgage payment in Chester County, Pennsylvania?
- Homeowners with a mortgage in Chester County, Pennsylvania pay a median of $2,660 a month. That covers the mortgage payment together with property taxes, insurance and utilities.
What is the average rent in Chester County, Pennsylvania?
- Median gross rent in Chester County, Pennsylvania is $1,763 a month for 2020–2024. Gross rent is the rent itself plus the utilities the renter pays.
Are homes in Chester County, Pennsylvania expensive compared with other places?
- Chester County has the 1st highest median home value of the 67 counties in Pennsylvania with a published figure, 90.8% above the Pennsylvania median of $254,500.
Source
U.S. Census Bureau
American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, 2020–2024, tables B25077, B25064 and B25088. Retrieved on October 6, 2026.
About the American Community SurveySource: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, 2020–2024.
Other counties in Pennsylvania
The percentage compares each county with the Pennsylvania median.
- Adams County+5.5%$268,500
- Allegheny County−10.6%$227,600
- Armstrong County−38.2%$157,300
- Beaver County−25.0%$190,900
- Bedford County−29.7%$179,000
- Berks County+1.1%$257,300
- Blair County−36.7%$161,100
- Bradford County−26.3%$187,500
- Bucks County+75.1%$445,700
- Butler County+15.6%$294,200
- Cambria County−52.5%$121,000
- Cameron County−65.1%$88,900
- Carbon County−16.9%$211,400
- Centre County+27.1%$323,500
- Clarion County−38.8%$155,700
- Clearfield County−46.2%$137,000
- Clinton County−30.9%$175,900
- Columbia County−19.0%$206,200
- Crawford County−39.8%$153,200
- Cumberland County+9.1%$277,600
- Dauphin County−7.1%$236,400
- Delaware County+30.5%$332,200
- Elk County−47.5%$133,600
- Erie County−30.5%$177,000
- Fayette County−43.7%$143,200
- Forest County−54.7%$115,300
- Franklin County−1.8%$249,800
- Fulton County−18.1%$208,500
- Greene County−39.5%$153,900
- Huntingdon County−28.0%$183,200
- Indiana County−40.0%$152,800
- Jefferson County−45.1%$139,700
- Juniata County−14.7%$217,000
- Lackawanna County−20.7%$201,800
- Lancaster County+18.3%$301,100
- Lawrence County−42.2%$147,200
- Lebanon County−4.9%$242,000
- Lehigh County+18.0%$300,400
- Luzerne County−31.6%$174,100
- Lycoming County−20.6%$202,200
- McKean County−58.9%$104,500
- Mercer County−35.6%$164,000
- Mifflin County−38.4%$156,700
- Monroe County+5.1%$267,600
- Montgomery County+71.6%$436,700
- Montour County−2.5%$248,100
- Northampton County+21.3%$308,600
- Northumberland County−36.2%$162,400
- Perry County−7.1%$236,400
- Philadelphia County−4.5%$243,100
- Pike County+7.1%$272,600
- Potter County−39.8%$153,100
- Schuylkill County−39.9%$153,000
- Snyder County−15.4%$215,300
- Somerset County−40.8%$150,600
- Sullivan County−22.6%$197,100
- Susquehanna County−15.0%$216,400
- Tioga County−28.8%$181,100
- Union County−5.7%$240,100
- Venango County−52.9%$119,800
- Warren County−49.9%$127,500
- Washington County−10.2%$228,500
- Wayne County−4.9%$242,100
- Westmoreland County−20.0%$203,500
- Wyoming County−15.4%$215,400
- York County−2.3%$248,600