Harrisburg housing market: home prices, trends and forecast
Harrisburg home prices: the Zillow Home Value Index put the typical home in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania at $263,909 in September 2026, +2.4% on a year earlier and the highest month on record.
- Typical value of a home
- $263,909September 2026, Zillow ZHVI
- Change over 12 months
- +2.4%. Compared with September 2025.
Harrisburg home prices since 2000
Harrisburg is the steel line, the United States the grey one. The typical home in Harrisburg has moved, since January 2000, from $114,985 to $263,909 (×2.30), while the US rose ×2.99 over that span. Prices peaked in November 2007 at $157,451, then fell to a low of $106,029 in November 2013, −32.7%.
Harrisburg median home price by year
Each yearly figure averages the twelve monthly values, and 2026 shows the latest month.
| Year | Harrisburg | Change on the year | United States |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | $114,268 | $125,745 | |
| 2001 | $117,387 | +2.7% | $134,899 |
| 2002 | $120,197 | +2.4% | $144,276 |
| 2003 | $124,748 | +3.8% | $155,308 |
| 2004 | $131,835 | +5.7% | $169,891 |
| 2005 | $139,832 | +6.1% | $189,732 |
| 2006 | $145,887 | +4.3% | $206,531 |
| 2007 | $154,209 | +5.7% | $208,449 |
| 2009 | $137,165 | $177,542 | |
| 2010 | $138,509 | +1.0% | $171,462 |
| 2011 | $122,675 | −11.4% | $162,508 |
| 2012 | $114,190 | −6.9% | $161,137 |
| 2013 | $109,090 | −4.5% | $171,420 |
| 2014 | $110,962 | +1.7% | $182,996 |
| 2015 | $112,748 | +1.6% | $192,738 |
| 2016 | $110,173 | −2.3% | $204,509 |
| 2017 | $125,510 | +13.9% | $216,767 |
| 2018 | $139,478 | +11.1% | $230,541 |
| 2019 | $150,050 | +7.6% | $242,088 |
| 2020 | $166,548 | +11.0% | $257,151 |
| 2021 | $191,812 | +15.2% | $295,959 |
| 2022 | $214,896 | +12.0% | $340,014 |
| 2023 | $231,575 | +7.8% | $348,160 |
| 2024 | $244,374 | +5.5% | $359,751 |
| 2025 | $255,712 | +4.6% | $362,959 |
| September 2026 | $263,909 | +2.4% | $366,157 |
Today's value of a Harrisburg home bought in any year
An index-based estimate of a typical home, not an appraisal.
The figure for each year is the average of twelve monthly index values; the current one is September 2026. Other tools: home appreciation calculator.
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Harrisburg housing market forecast
For the metro of Harrisburg, PA, Zillow's forecast shows +2.7% across the 12 months that begin in September 2026, and +0.8% across the three months ahead. From Harrisburg's typical value of $263,909, the forecast points to something near $271,000 a year on.
Zillow's central estimate for this metro is what the forecast shows, restated here; the site offers no forecast of its own. Such a 12-month forecast has typically landed several percentage points away from the realised change, in both directions. This is not investment advice.
One table holds forecasts for every metro: housing market forecast.
Harrisburg housing market crash risk score
Low, at 19 of 100
It ranks Harrisburg against the 292 cities, using five conditions that ran high before earlier price falls. Every input is scored from 0 to 100 versus the other cities, and those five scores are averaged with equal weight. It shows conditions as they stand today; no crash prediction is made.
| Input | Value | Sub-score | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Active listings vs 2019 | −29.0% | 12 | 20% |
| Days on the market vs 2019 | −27.8% | 5 | 20% |
| Price-to-rent ratio | 15.8 | 34 | 20% |
| 12-month price change | +2.4% | 26 | 20% |
This is not investment advice. The scoring of the inputs: methodology. Every one of the 292 cities ranked: crash risk rankings.
Harrisburg inventory and days on market
For September 2026 the Harrisburg, PA metro recorded 1,029 homes for sale, up 2.9% from a year earlier and down 29.0% from the same month in 2019. The median time to sell was 39 days (−27.8% against 2019). Price cuts affected 20.2% of listings.
| Harrisburg, PA metro, September 2026 | Value | On a year |
|---|---|---|
| Active listings | 1,029 | +2.9% |
| New listings | 592 | |
| Median days on market | 39 | +2.7% |
| Median list price | $326,859 | −5.3% |
| Share with a price cut | 20.2% |
Metro inventory figures from Realtor.com® Economic Research. Realtor.com data For every metro: days on market for each city.
Harrisburg rent and living costs
By the Zillow Observed Rent Index, asking rent in Harrisburg typically runs $1,388 a month, +2.4% on a year. At that rent, the typical home equals 15.8 years of rent. On BEA figures, metro prices sit at 98.7 where the US average is 100, while housing costs stand at 96.3.
Housing markets elsewhere in Pennsylvania
- $231,584 in Philadelphia.
- $234,620 in Pittsburgh.
- $315,694 in Allentown.
- $204,067 in Erie.
- $202,099 in Scranton.
The whole state in one place: Pennsylvania housing market.
How to read this chart
Each plotted point equals the Zillow Home Value Index for Harrisburg: a typical home's worth in the middle third of this market, smoothed and seasonally adjusted, measured in the dollars of that month. The hollow dot shows the month picked on the slider, while the terracotta dot shows the most recent month. No inflation adjustment applies to these figures, and an index describes the typical home instead of one particular house: a single home's value comes from its own sale price, and you can work it out with the card placed above it or the home appreciation calculator.