Bangor, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $330,073 (+1.8% in a year), asking rent $1,600 . Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$984 (+131%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,939 +2%
- $324,134$330,073 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $74,285 +29%
- $255,788$330,073 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.
- Bangor$1,732
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Bangor, PA rose 1.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bangor, Northampton County, Pennsylvania
Bangor is a borough of 5,187 people in Northampton County. Half its households earn more than $70,076 a year and half less, against $89,184 across Northampton County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. 73% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 27% are rented. Unemployment in Northampton County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 1.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bangor is a small borough in Northampton County, where most homes are lived in by their owners and the people are somewhat younger than in many small towns. Household incomes run below the county's, and typical home values and rents sit at a level that reflects a town of modest size. Winters are cold, with snow most years, and summers turn warm, with plenty of rain and melted snow across the seasons.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in manufacturing, shops, and transport, warehouses and utilities. Across Northampton County, the largest workplaces include Lehigh University, Bethlehem Area Schools and FedEx. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree here than in many places, and a typical commute takes a fair while, with only a small number working from home.
Things to do. The Weona Park Carousel, a tourist attraction, is in or beside town. A short drive away are Cherry Valley National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area, and the Jacobsburg Environmental Education Center, another protected area good for time outdoors. For a longer outing, Bushkill Falls is a waterfall a longer drive away.
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- 1,986households
- 23%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Northampton County had 122,795 jobs in 2025, 1.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 36° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 60°. About 23 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Belvidere Brg weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Northampton County
- Lehigh UniversityUniversity or college1,997
- Bethlehem Area SDSchool district1,953FTE
- FedExCourier and express delivery services1,720
- St Luke Hospital Anderson CampusGeneral hospital1,665FTE
- Victaulic - ForksDuctile iron foundries1,567
- Northampton County Area Community CollegeTwo-year college1,534
- WalmartGeneral warehousing and storage1,215
- UPSCouriers and express delivery services1,190
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 338 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 48,225 people in all across the county; Bangor has one of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals 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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively 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 Bangor’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Northampton County and the Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ metro.
Bangor home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bangor$330,073
- Pennsylvania$287,078
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Bangor 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.
- Bangor20.59%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Bangor36
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Bangor16
Zip codes with a Bangor address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bangor — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.