Bath, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $384,755 (+3.8% in a year), asking rent $1,738 . Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,155 (+134%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,013 +4%
- $370,742$384,755 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $101,887 +36%
- $282,867$384,755 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.
- Bath$2,019
- 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 Bath, PA rose 3.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bath, Northampton County, Pennsylvania
Bath is a borough of 2,808 people in Northampton County. Half its households earn more than $72,391 a year and half less, against $89,184 across Northampton County; 20% of its people live below the poverty line. 57% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 43% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bath is a small borough in Northampton County, and it is home to a young population for the area, with a median age well below what is common in many American towns. Incomes run below the county's, and more people live below the poverty line than most would expect to find in a place with a typical home value this high. Most households own their homes, though a good number rent, and winters are cold and snowy, with a warm July and plenty of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and professional and business services. Across Northampton County, some of the largest workplaces are Lehigh University, Bethlehem Area Schools and FedEx. Unemployment across the county is lower than it was a year ago, and the county has added jobs over the past year. The typical commute is a moderate one, and a small share of people work from home.
Things to do. Close by, a short drive away, are the Lee and Virginia Graver Arboretum, a botanical garden, and Bushkill Park, an amusement park. Also a short drive away is Monocacy Creek, a stream that suits a walk along the water. For a longer outing, Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom, a large amusement park, is a longer drive away.
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- 1,090households
- 25%of adults have a degree
- 20%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 10%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 38° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 65°. About 33 inches of snow and 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Allentown International Airport weather station, 6 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; Bath has none 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 moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Bath’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 Northampton County and the Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ metro.
Bath home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bath$384,755
- Pennsylvania$287,078
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Bath 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.
- Bath21.54%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Bath26
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Bath11
Zip codes with a Bath address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bath — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.