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Home appreciation in Lancaster, PA

Over the five years ending 2025, home prices in Lancaster, PA grew an average of 9.8% a year.

Price growth at a glance

1-year

+5.1%

2025 over 2024. Pennsylvania: +5.8%.

5-year, per year

+9.8%

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

10-year, per year

+7.0%

+97.5% in total since 2015. Pennsylvania: +6.2%.

How does your home compare?

Lancaster, PA home prices rose 97.5% over the ten years to 2025, while its ZIP codes ranged from +53.6% to +111.8%. Look up your home to see where it ranks among the homes around it.

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How Lancaster, PA compares with Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania averaged +8.6% a year, so Lancaster, PA grew faster than the state overall. For five-year price growth, Lancaster, PA ranks 130th out of 409 metros nationwide and 6th out of 17 in Pennsylvania.

Index, 2005 = 100

Lancaster, PA and Pennsylvania, quarterly house price index rebased to 100 in 2005.
YearLancaster, PAPennsylvania
2005 Q1100100
2005 Q2103103
2005 Q3106107
2005 Q4109109
2006 Q1112111
2006 Q2113112
2006 Q3115113
2006 Q4116115
2007 Q1117116
2007 Q2119116
2007 Q3119116
2007 Q4118116
2008 Q1120117
2008 Q2119116
2008 Q3118114
2008 Q4117114
2009 Q1119115
2009 Q2118113
2009 Q3116111
2009 Q4117110
2010 Q1115110
2010 Q2114109
2010 Q3115110
2010 Q4115110
2011 Q1112108
2011 Q2112107
2011 Q3111107
2011 Q4112108
2012 Q1110107
2012 Q2109106
2012 Q3111107
2012 Q4110107
2013 Q1111107
2013 Q2110107
2013 Q3110108
2013 Q4111108
2014 Q1111108
2014 Q2112109
2014 Q3113110
2014 Q4113110
2015 Q1114111
2015 Q2114112
2015 Q3116112
2015 Q4116112
2016 Q1115113
2016 Q2118115
2016 Q3119116
2016 Q4120116
2017 Q1120116
2017 Q2123119
2017 Q3124120
2017 Q4125120
2018 Q1127122
2018 Q2129123
2018 Q3130125
2018 Q4131124
2019 Q1133126
2019 Q2134128
2019 Q3136130
2019 Q4136131
2020 Q1140133
2020 Q2140134
2020 Q3143137
2020 Q4146139
2021 Q1149142
2021 Q2156149
2021 Q3166156
2021 Q4170159
2022 Q1175163
2022 Q2187172
2022 Q3189175
2022 Q4193174
2023 Q1194176
2023 Q2204182
2023 Q3204185
2023 Q4207185
2024 Q1212188
2024 Q2215194
2024 Q3217196
2024 Q4220197
2025 Q1220200
2025 Q2226205
2025 Q3230207
2025 Q4232208
2026 Q1236211
2026 Q2240214

Chart through 2026 Q2. Annual growth figures through 2025.

Growth was stronger over the last five years than over the full decade: +7.0% a year over ten years, +97.5% in total.

Over this history, home prices peaked in 2008, fell 7.1% to its 2012 low, and regained the 2008 level in 2017.

The strongest year was 2022 at +16.1%, and the weakest was 2011 at -2.4%.

In 2025 alone the index moved +5.1%, against +5.8% for the state.

ZIP codes in Lancaster, PA

Over the ten years to 2025, the 34 ZIP codes FHFA measures in this metro ranged from +53.6% in 17527 to +111.8% in 17603, while the metro as a whole rose 97.5%.

Fastest-rising ZIP codes

10-year change

  1. 17603+111.8%
  2. 17602+108.5%
  3. 17562+103.0%
  4. 17552+102.2%
  5. 17509+101.3%

Slowest-rising ZIP codes

10-year change

  1. 17527+53.6%
  2. 17536+73.6%
  3. 17554+80.0%
  4. 17540+81.1%
  5. 17532+83.8%
ZIP codes in Lancaster, 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.
17603+4.1%+10.1%+7.8%+111.8%
17602+2.1%+9.2%+7.6%+108.5%
17562+10.3%+10.6%+7.3%+103.0%
17552+11.6%+10.3%+7.3%+102.2%
17509+3.6%+9.2%+7.2%+101.3%
17501+6.4%+9.8%+7.1%+99.0%
17520+9.3%+10.1%+7.1%+98.4%
17569+9.5%+10.4%+7.0%+96.9%
17560+19.7%+10.1%+7.0%+96.8%
17566+15.6%+10.2%+7.0%+95.8%
17584+11.0%+10.1%+6.9%+95.1%
17578+15.6%+9.9%+6.9%+95.0%
17543+8.1%+10.3%+6.9%+94.7%
17551+7.0%+9.4%+6.9%+94.1%
17547-0.5%+8.9%+6.8%+92.9%
17565+7.8%+9.6%+6.8%+92.6%
17538+5.5%+10.0%+6.7%+92.2%
17557+3.3%+10.2%+6.7%+92.0%
17522+5.3%+9.7%+6.7%+91.0%
17512+0.5%+9.1%+6.6%+89.7%
17517+8.0%+9.8%+6.6%+89.7%
17519+5.7%+9.4%+6.6%+89.7%
17601+5.5%+9.9%+6.6%+89.1%
17516+0.2%+9.0%+6.5%+88.3%
17502+13.5%+10.2%+6.5%+87.6%
17579+8.3%+9.2%+6.4%+85.4%
17545-0.7%+8.7%+6.3%+85.0%
17555+4.7%+9.9%+6.3%+84.9%
17022+4.6%+9.3%+6.3%+84.7%
17532+7.6%+8.9%+6.3%+83.8%
17540+5.0%+9.8%+6.1%+81.1%
17554+2.1%+8.6%+6.1%+80.0%
17536-5.7%+8.7%+5.7%+73.6%
17527-8.3%+7.2%+4.4%+53.6%

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 Lancaster, 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
2006109.0+9.0%107.7
2007113.1+3.7%110.7
2008113.4+0.3%109.7
2009111.9-1.3%107.1
2010109.5-2.2%104.8
2011106.8-2.4%102.6
2012105.4-1.3%101.7
2013105.8+0.3%102.5
2014107.0+1.2%104.0
2015109.9+2.7%106.8
2016112.9+2.8%109.7
2017117.6+4.2%113.3
2018123.5+5.0%117.8
2019128.8+4.3%122.8
2020135.8+5.5%129.2
2021153.1+12.7%144.5
2022177.8+16.1%163.2
2023193.1+8.6%173.6
2024206.5+6.9%184.9
2025217.0+5.1%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