Ashley, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $170,555 (+5.5% in a year). Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$602 (+206%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,905 +6%
- $161,650$170,555 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $72,803 +74%
- $97,753$170,555 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Ashley$895
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 6 years.
Typical home values in Ashley, PA rose 5.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Ashley, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania
Ashley is a borough of 2,596 people in Luzerne County. Half its households earn more than $56,500 a year and half less, against $63,691 across Luzerne County. 68% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 32% are rented. Unemployment in Luzerne County was 5.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Luzerne County work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Ashley is a small borough in Luzerne County, home to a modest number of residents. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and typical home values and household incomes sit below the county's. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm; a good deal of rain and melted snow falls over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, manufacturing, and professional and business services. A four-year degree is held by fewer adults than is typical, and commutes are fairly short, with some people working from home. Across Luzerne County, the largest workplaces include Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center, Amazon and Hazleton Area Schools.
Things to do. Several small waterways run in or beside town, among them Toby Creek and Sugar Notch Run, and Nanticoke Creek is a short drive away. Pocono Raceway, a race track, and the Lackawanna River are both a longer drive away.
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- 1,056households
- 14%of adults have a degree
- 17 mintypical commute
- 14%work from home
What people in Luzerne County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Luzerne County had 145,109 jobs in 2025, 0.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 31° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 79° and lows near 58°. About 49 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Francis East Walter Dam weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Luzerne County
- Geisinger Wyoming Valley MED CTRGeneral hospital2,715FTE
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage2,610
- NBC Pittston MerchantsBonded warehousing, general merchandise1,456
- Hazleton Area SDSchool district1,353FTE
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs1,315
- ChewyGeneral warehousing and storage1,134
- ChewyGeneral warehousing and storage1,122
- Benco DentalDental equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers1,089
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 338 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 52,411 people in all across the county; Ashley has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Ashley’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Luzerne County and the Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA metro.
Ashley home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Ashley$170,555
- Pennsylvania$287,078
- United States$366,157
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Ashley9
Zip codes with a Ashley address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ashley — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.