Auburn, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $321,109 (+6.9% in a year). Pottsville, PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$996 (+144%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $20,803 +7%
- $300,306$321,109 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $85,729 +36%
- $235,380$321,109 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.
- Auburn$1,685
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Auburn, PA rose 6.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Auburn, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania
Auburn is a borough of 660 people in Schuylkill County. Half its households earn more than $71,458 a year and half less, against $68,313 across Schuylkill County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Schuylkill County was 5.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Auburn is a small Pennsylvania borough in Schuylkill County, home to a small number of residents. Household incomes run a little above the county's, and homes here are valued well above what many people might expect for a small borough. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and plenty of snow, while summers turn warm, with July the warmest, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, schools, hospitals and social care, shops, and transport, warehouses and utilities. Across Schuylkill County, some of the largest workplaces are Walmart, Hydro Cressona and Wegmans Food Markets, covering warehousing and aluminum production. Job numbers across the county have edged up slightly, and a typical commute is a moderate one.
Things to do. State Game Lands Number 110 and Fighter's Heaven, a museum, are in or beside town. A short drive away are Hawk Mountain Sanctuary, a protected area, and the Schuylkill River. For a longer outing, Crystal Cave is a protected area reached by a longer drive.
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- 199households
- 15%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Schuylkill County had 50,502 jobs in 2025, 0.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 38° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 64°. About 21 inches of snow and 49 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hamburg weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Schuylkill County
- WalmartRefrigerated warehousing and storage1,201
- Hydro CressonaAluminum bar made by extruding purchased aluminum1,100
- Cargill Meat Solutions (2)Meats fresh, chilled or frozen, produced in slaughtering plants1,030
- Wegmans Food MarketsGeneral warehouse and storage920
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage879
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage799
- Lehigh Valley Hospital - SchuylkillGeneral hospital643FTE
- Lowe's Companies, INCWarehouse567
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 151 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 23,617 people in all across the county; Auburn has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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 high
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Auburn’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 Schuylkill County and the Pottsville, PA metro.
Auburn home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Auburn$321,109
- Pennsylvania$287,078
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Auburn listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Auburn30.45%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Auburn22
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Auburn7
Zip codes with a Auburn address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Auburn — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.