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Study finds three Pa. counties are among those with the lowest income needed to buy a home

July 6, 2023 / 5:41 AM EDT / CBS Pittsburgh

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PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - A new study from ATTOM looking into home affordability found that three Pennsylvania counties were among the areas where the lowest income was needed to afford a home.

It included Fayette County, Cambria County in western-central Pennsylvania, and Schuylkill County in eastern Pennsylvania.

In Cambria they found to afford a median-priced home, one would have to make $14,715 and in Fayette County, one would need to be making $23,555.

Meanwhile, over in Schuylkill County, it would require a salary of $20,679.

Their research found that home affordability worsened across the country in this past quarter with the price of homes and average wages required jumping by 33-percent.

You can check out ATTOM's work at this link.

Patrick Damp

Patrick Damp is a web producer for CBS Pittsburgh. A Pittsburgh native who grew up watching KDKA-TV, Patrick studied journalism at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. After half a decade in sports communication, Patrick decided to pursue his dream of working in journalism in his hometown and joined the CBS Pittsburgh team in 2019.