Ranking the Territory by What Homes Actually Sold For

Rank the four ZIP codes in this territory by one number, median sold price, and the order is not close.

At the top sits the higher-priced of the two Mechanicsburg ZIPs, where homes sold for a median of $435,000 over the twelve weeks ending August 30, 2026. That is the ceiling for the territory this period, and nothing else came near it.

The other Mechanicsburg ZIP tells a different story at a similar address. Homes there sold for a median of $380,500 over the same twelve weeks. Two ZIPs, one town name, two different markets.

Enola comes in third. Homes there sold for a median of $362,260 this period, a year ago the same measure ran about $255,000. That is one of the sharper year-over-year moves in the territory, even though Enola still lands in the middle of the pack on level alone.

New Cumberland trails the field. Homes there sold for a median of $304,980 over the twelve weeks ending August 30, 2026. It is the most affordable entry point in the territory by a wide margin.

The spread across those four numbers is the story. A buyer working this territory is not shopping one market. They are shopping four, and the distance between the top and the bottom of that ranking is worth more than most homes' equity gains in a year.

Zoom out and the territory as a whole sold at a median of $381,000 over the twelve weeks ending August 30, 2026. Homes took a median of 56 days to sell, and buyers paid a median of 100% of asking. Those totals describe the whole territory, not any single ZIP.

New Cumberland's position at the bottom of the price ranking comes with its own wrinkle worth watching. The median sale price there rose about 6% compared with a year earlier, even as the number of homes sold there fell about 14% compared with a year earlier. Fewer transactions, higher prices. That is not a contradiction so much as a market where fewer sellers listed and the ones who did found buyers willing to pay more anyway.

For someone comparing the top and bottom of this ranking, the practical read is simple. A buyer priced out of the territory's highest tier has a real, sizable alternative at its lowest tier rather than needing to leave the area entirely.

What to watch next: whether the gap between the two Mechanicsburg ZIPs holds, narrows, or widens next period, and whether New Cumberland's falling sales count with rising prices continues or was a one-period blip. Those two threads will tell us more about the shape of this territory than any single median can on its own.

Source: MLS sold data, ZIP-level aggregates.