Cost of Living in Downingtown
Downingtown's cost of living runs genuinely elevated on housing and property tax, reflecting its real, current fast-growth, top-magnet-school draw.
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Downingtown's home-value figures carried a real, disclosed spread of $521,628-$593,643 across two cited Zillow figures, well above the Pennsylvania statewide median.
A genuinely elevated property tax rate
Downingtown's effective property tax rate ran approximately 3.54% per one 2026 aggregator, with a median annual bill of $6,322 -- well above the national median bill of $2,400.
A real, precisely-confirmed, simple 50/50 combined local EIT
Downingtown Borough and the Downingtown Area School District split a combined 1% Earned Income Tax exactly 50/50 (0.5% each), collected by Keystone Collections Group -- layered on Pennsylvania's flat 3.07% state rate for a combined approximate 4.07% marginal rate.
Key takeaways
- Downingtown's housing costs run genuinely elevated, with a real, disclosed spread ($521,628-$593,643) across sources.
- Downingtown's effective property tax rate (approximately 3.54%) and median bill ($6,322) both run genuinely elevated.
- The combined local EIT (1.0%, exactly 50/50 split) plus PA state tax (3.07%) yields an approximate 4.07% combined marginal rate.
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