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Home appreciation in Altoona, PA

Over the five years ending 2025, home prices in Altoona, PA grew an average of 6.7% a year.

Price growth at a glance

1-year

+5.3%

2025 over 2024. Pennsylvania: +5.8%.

5-year, per year

+6.7%

Average annual growth, 2020 to 2025. Pennsylvania: +8.6%.

10-year, per year

+4.7%

+58.7% in total since 2015. Pennsylvania: +6.2%.

How does your home compare?

Altoona, PA home prices rose 58.7% over the ten years to 2025, while its ZIP codes ranged from +41.9% to +61.3%. Look up your home to see where it ranks among the homes around it.

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How Altoona, PA compares with Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania averaged +8.6% a year, putting Altoona, PA behind the state overall. For five-year price growth, Altoona, PA ranks 362nd out of 409 metros nationwide and 17th out of 17 in Pennsylvania.

Index, 2005 = 100

Altoona, PA and Pennsylvania, quarterly house price index rebased to 100 in 2005.
YearAltoona, PAPennsylvania
2005 Q1100100
2005 Q2102103
2005 Q3103107
2005 Q4104109
2006 Q1104111
2006 Q2107112
2006 Q3110113
2006 Q4109115
2007 Q1110116
2007 Q2112116
2007 Q3113116
2007 Q4113116
2008 Q1116117
2008 Q2118116
2008 Q3116114
2008 Q4113114
2009 Q1117115
2009 Q2118113
2009 Q3113111
2009 Q4115110
2010 Q1116110
2010 Q2115109
2010 Q3118110
2010 Q4118110
2011 Q1117108
2011 Q2120107
2011 Q3115107
2011 Q4118108
2012 Q1121107
2012 Q2120106
2012 Q3123107
2012 Q4120107
2013 Q1123107
2013 Q2123107
2013 Q3120108
2013 Q4120108
2014 Q1120108
2014 Q2122109
2014 Q3121110
2014 Q4123110
2015 Q1125111
2015 Q2122112
2015 Q3125112
2015 Q4121112
2016 Q1126113
2016 Q2127115
2016 Q3128116
2016 Q4127116
2017 Q1131116
2017 Q2128119
2017 Q3131120
2017 Q4132120
2018 Q1130122
2018 Q2132123
2018 Q3133125
2018 Q4131124
2019 Q1132126
2019 Q2138128
2019 Q3137130
2019 Q4139131
2020 Q1141133
2020 Q2140134
2020 Q3142137
2020 Q4142139
2021 Q1146142
2021 Q2150149
2021 Q3156156
2021 Q4160159
2022 Q1167163
2022 Q2169172
2022 Q3170175
2022 Q4177174
2023 Q1172176
2023 Q2176182
2023 Q3177185
2023 Q4181185
2024 Q1175188
2024 Q2181194
2024 Q3188196
2024 Q4198197
2025 Q1192200
2025 Q2192205
2025 Q3197207
2025 Q4201208
2026 Q1197211
2026 Q2207214

Chart through 2026 Q2. Annual growth figures through 2025.

Growth was stronger over the last five years than over the full decade: +4.7% a year over ten years, +58.7% in total.

Over this history, home prices rose in every year.

The strongest year was 2022 at +11.7%, and the weakest was 2014 at +0.2%.

In 2025 alone the index moved +5.3%, against +5.8% for the state.

ZIP codes in Altoona, PA

Over the ten years to 2025, the 6 ZIP codes FHFA measures in this metro ranged from +41.9% in 16673 to +61.3% in 16648, while the metro as a whole rose 58.7%.

ZIP codes in Altoona, PA ranked by 10-year home-price change through 2025 Column headers are buttons: click to sort, click again to reverse, and a third time to restore the original order.
16648+12.9%+7.9%+4.9%+61.3%
16686-1.9%+5.7%+4.6%+57.3%
16601+13.0%+6.7%+4.4%+54.0%
16602+8.8%+6.5%+4.3%+52.0%
16635-5.1%+5.3%+3.8%+45.3%
16673-8.7%+5.1%+3.6%+41.9%

What a home report shows

Enter an address and you get a score out of 10 for how the home ranks on appreciation potential against comparable homes in its market, with the nearby sales behind it. Here is one saved report.

Example report · saved October 14, 2026

165 N Canal St, Apt 1205, Chicago, IL 60606

Appreciation score

4.1 / 10

Around the median

Where it ranks

Ranks above about 41% of comparable homes in Chicago, IL for appreciation potential.

Price against nearby sales

Priced below most nearby sales, at $300 per square foot across 6 comparable sales.

Read the full example report

Year by year

Annual house price index for Altoona, PA and Pennsylvania, 2005 = 100 Column headers are buttons: click to sort, click again to reverse, and a third time to restore the original order.
2005100.0—100.0
2006105.1+5.1%107.7
2007109.7+4.4%110.7
2008113.1+3.1%109.7
2009113.4+0.3%107.1
2010113.8+0.4%104.8
2011114.9+1.0%102.6
2012118.0+2.7%101.7
2013118.6+0.5%102.5
2014118.8+0.2%104.0
2015120.3+1.3%106.8
2016124.1+3.1%109.7
2017127.4+2.7%113.3
2018128.5+0.8%117.8
2019133.1+3.6%122.8
2020137.8+3.6%129.2
2021149.4+8.4%144.5
2022166.9+11.7%163.2
2023172.5+3.4%173.6
2024181.3+5.1%184.9
2025191.0+5.3%195.6

The 17 measured metros in Pennsylvania

Measured metros in Pennsylvania ranked by 5-year home-price appreciation through 2025 Column headers are buttons: click to sort, click again to reverse, and a third time to restore the original order.
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1Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ+6.9%+10.5%+7.1%
2Lebanon, PA+7.9%+10.3%+6.9%
3Reading, PA+5.5%+10.2%+7.0%
4Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA+6.6%+10.1%+6.4%
5Erie, PA+8.3%+10.0%+6.1%
6Lancaster, PA+5.1%+9.8%+7.0%
7York-Hanover, PA+5.8%+9.3%+6.4%
8Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA+5.4%+9.0%+6.0%
9Montgomery County-Bucks County-Chester County, PA (metropolitan division)+5.6%+9.0%+6.2%
10Chambersburg, PA+4.7%+8.8%+5.7%
11Johnstown, PA+6.3%+8.3%+5.3%
12Gettysburg, PA+3.2%+8.2%+5.7%
13Pittsburgh, PA+5.3%+7.6%+6.0%
14Williamsport, PA+4.0%+7.1%+4.6%
15Philadelphia, PA (metropolitan division)+5.6%+7.0%+6.1%
16State College, PA+4.7%+6.9%+5.4%
17Altoona, PA+5.3%+6.7%+4.7%

Source & method: Metro figures: FHFA quarterly all-transactions index for metropolitan statistical areas and metropolitan divisions, annualized as the mean of the four quarterly (NSA) values. State figures: FHFA quarterly all-transactions index, annualized as the mean of the four quarterly (NSA) values. The chart uses quarterly readings, with each series set to 100 in the first quarter of 2005. ZIP figures: FHFA annual five-digit ZIP index (developmental), ZIPs with sufficient transaction history. Missing years are reported as missing by FHFA and are not estimated. Each ZIP is placed in the metro that holds the county with most of its housing units. “5-yr /yr” and “10-yr /yr” are compound annual growth over the window ending 2025; all figures are nominal. Data published by the FHFA House Price Index; this edition compiled 2026-10-17. Educational data, not investment advice.

See the Pennsylvania row in the state rankings, the county rankings, and, for why one metro number hides so much, why two homes in the same ZIP code appreciate differently.

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Measured FHFA data · chart through 2026 Q2