In the race for priciest places to live around Pittsburgh, Edgeworth is lapping the field. A new Zillow-based ranking shows the tiny borough with a typical home value north of $1 million, far outpacing its neighbors and turning the local map of wealth into a pretty stark heat chart.
Close behind, at least in regional bragging rights, are Wexford and Mars, where typical values sit in the mid-$500,000s. Together, a handful of high-end suburbs are doing a lot of the heavy lifting for the metro’s luxury numbers, while most of greater Pittsburgh plays in a very different price league.
Top Towns And The Data Behind Them
The ranking, pulled together by Stacker using Zillow figures, ran typical home values for more than 140 municipalities. The top five shook out this way: Edgeworth at $1,041,600, followed by Wexford at $561,352, Mars at $543,984, Bradfordwoods at $535,722, and Sewickley at $505,763.
Edgeworth did not just grab the crown; it also posted the biggest five-year gain among the top entries, signaling a longer run-up rather than a one-season price spike. The full package covers roughly 148 towns across the metro and includes one-year and five-year change numbers for each. According to Stacker.
Rates And National Context
Zooming out, the typical U.S. home value sat near $368,720 in May, which makes Edgeworth’s seven-figure “typical” look even more rarefied. At the same time, borrowing is not exactly cheap. The 30-year fixed mortgage rate averaged about 6.52% for the week ending June 11, a level that pushes monthly payments on six-figure loans into uncomfortable territory for many households.
That mix of higher rates and higher prices helps explain why a few wealthy boroughs can hog the spotlight while much of the Pittsburgh metro remains comparatively attainable. Those eye-catching Edgeworth numbers coexist with plenty of markets that still look modest by national standards. See weekly data from Freddie Mac and reporting from WPXI.
Pittsburgh's Split Market
For all the talk of million-dollar homes, Pittsburgh overall is still far more approachable. Realtor.com pegs the city’s median listing price near $275,000, a number that would barely buy a starter place in some coastal metros.
At the same time, the top shelf is moving briskly. Recent local analysis notes that luxury listings are selling faster than the broader market, a split personality that can be jarring for anyone trying to make sense of “the” housing market here. Depending on the neighborhood and price point, a buyer might face bidding wars or find room to negotiate, sometimes just a few miles apart. For recent snapshots, see Realtor.com and coverage from Axios.
Why Edgeworth Commands A Premium
Edgeworth’s outlier status is not exactly random. The borough combines riverfront lots, historic estates, and strong schools with a chronic shortage of homes for sale, a recipe that reliably keeps prices elevated. Local write-ups and market pages point to those built-in advantages as the key drivers behind its premium.
In practical terms, there are not many homes, and the ones that do hit the market tend to be large, polished, and in high demand. That scarcity, paired with long-standing prestige, helps explain why Edgeworth sits so far above the rest of the list on Zillow’s typical-value metric. See a local profile in Pittsburgh Magazine.
What Buyers And Sellers Should Take Away
For buyers, the headline is that a $1 million house in Edgeworth is playing a different sport than a $275,000 listing in the city, even if they show up in the same regional averages. Location, school district, and neighborhood status are doing a lot of the math here.
Market trackers and local agents report a split where many everyday homes sell below asking while higher-end inventory tightens, which can give prepared buyers some leverage if they are flexible on neighborhood and timing. Realistic budgeting for today’s mortgage rates and careful price shopping are doing more work now than they did during the pandemic boom. For data on the market split and discount patterns, see Redfin market pages and reporting from Axios.
Methodology
The ranking at the center of this story comes from Stacker, which relied on Zillow’s typical-home-value figures and was later republished by local outlets. Those “typical” values are Zillow’s estimate for the representative home in a given place, which is different from the median sale price or the median listing price you might see on real estate marketplaces.
Readers who want the full list or the technical details can dig into the Stacker package and Zillow’s own explanations of how those estimates are built. See Stacker and Zillow’s data pages for more detail.
