Charlestown Among Best Places To Buy A Home In PA: Niche.com

CHARLESTOWN, PA – Niche.com, known for its lists ranking towns, schools, colleges, and more, has released a new list of the best places to buy a house in Pennsylvania. The 2017 list features towns all over the Keystone State, but some suburban Philadelphia areas found their ways to the list.

Charlestown Township made the list, which is based on home values, property taxes, home ownership rates, housing costs, and real estate trends. The ranking is derived from data from the U.S. Census, FBI, and other data sources.

The suburb was ranked the 37th best place to buy a house in PA. Take a look at Charlestown's report card from Niche online here.

Niche reports the median home in Charlestown is $421,800 with median rent at $1,618. Median household income is listed at $146,944.

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Check out what some Niche reviewers have to say about Charlestown:

The general atmosphere is wonderful in this area! The neighbors always help in times of need such as through storms, shoveling, power outages, and even help with the christmas lights. The overall landscape is also awesome because there are places of woods, hills, grassy flats, big trees, flowery trees, and flowers in general along the street and people's yards. As you go up the street, you're instantly taken back at the beautiful trees and flowers along the road. It draws your eye and automatically makes the place brighter and happier especially in the summer. The fall in my opinion is even better because of the leaves changing colors. I would definitely choose to live here again and so would my family if I asked them the same question. Between the people, landscape, and weather, this area is one of a kind and definitely one of my favorite places to be. I could see this area being somewhat better, but honestly couldn't really imagine how it could get that much better.

...it is very safe with good neighborhood watch

There are many small business restaurants and bars in the area as well as bigger chains.

The top place to buy a house in PA is Houserville, an unincorporated section of Centre County that's just outside of the Penn State campus, made the national list.

You can see the full list of the 100 best places to buy a house in PA here.

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