Franklin Park

Franklin Park is the largest borough in the North Hills by land area and one of the quietest places in the region to hold a North Allegheny address. It covers roughly thirteen square miles of ridges, wooded hollows, and winding two-lane roads, with almost no commercial development inside its boundaries — no mall, no strip center, no restaurant row. What it has instead is space: half-acre and acre-plus lots, mature tree cover, and neighborhoods that were laid out to follow terrain rather than a grid. The borough sits between the Route 19 corridor to the east and the Sewickley valley to the west, which means residents pull amenities from both directions without hosting any of the traffic that comes with them.

The market has moved sharply. Redfin recorded a median sale price near $606,000 for the three months ending May 2026, up roughly 19% year over year, and median list prices ran near $659,000 with homes moving in under a month at close to full asking price. Housing stock is mixed in a way that helps buyers: 1960s and 1970s split-levels and colonials on generous lots sit alongside 1990s-and-later custom builds and a handful of recent luxury plans. Property taxes are a genuine advantage here — Franklin Park's municipal millage is just 1.59, among the lowest in the county, which pulls the combined county-borough-school rate down to roughly 27.8 mills. That is materially lighter than Mt. Lebanon or Upper St. Clair for a comparable house, and it is one of the reasons buyers who start in Wexford often end up looking here.

Franklin Park feeds North Allegheny, ranked #1 in the Pittsburgh area by Niche for 2026, and it houses both Ingomar Elementary and Ingomar Middle School inside the borough. The Ingomar community is the social spine of local life; with no downtown, school events and the borough's park system do the work a business district would do elsewhere. Blueberry Hill Park is the anchor — an activity center, pool, courts, and trails — with Linbrook and Fairview parks filling in neighborhood recreation. Shopping means the Route 19 corridor in Wexford or McCandless Crossing, roughly ten minutes east, and Sewickley's village is a similar drive west. Healthcare is covered by AHN Wexford and UPMC Passavant, both close. The commute is the pleasant surprise: the Nicholson Road interchange puts you on I-79 quickly, and Downtown runs 20 to 25 minutes outside the worst of rush hour.