Beaver Meadows, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $185,517 (+5.8% in a year). Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$624 (+178%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,121 +6%
- $175,395$185,517 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $59,520 +47%
- $125,997$185,517 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.
- Beaver Meadows$974
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 9 years.
Typical home values in Beaver Meadows, PA rose 5.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Beaver Meadows, Carbon County, Pennsylvania
Beaver Meadows is a borough of 897 people in Carbon County. Half its households earn more than $52,768 a year and half less, against $67,554 across Carbon County. Unemployment in Carbon County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 1.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Beaver Meadows is a small borough in Carbon County, with a population small enough that most residents are likely to know one another. Household incomes run below the county's, and homes here are modest in price. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and a good deal of snow, while July is the warmest and summers stay comfortable. Rain and melted snow add up to a wet year overall.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, manufacturing, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Carbon County, the largest workplaces include Boyers Food Market, Blue Mountain Resort and Little Leaf Farms. Few people work from home, and the typical commute is a fairly long one. Unemployment across the county has eased from a year ago, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. Lehigh Gorge State Park is a protected area a short drive away, and Beaver Creek and Catawissa Creek are small rivers close by for a walk along the water. A longer drive brings you to Hickory Run State Park, another protected area, and to Pocono Raceway, a race track.
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- 327households
- 11%of adults have a degree
- 25 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Carbon County had 16,376 jobs in 2025, 1.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 36° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 62°. About 27 inches of snow and 52 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lehighton 1SSW weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Carbon County
- Blue Mountain ResortAlpine skiing facilities without accommodations651
- Little leaf FarmsVegetable farming, grown under cover450
- St Lukes Hospital-carbon CampusGeneral hospital405FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters378
- Lehighton Area SDSchool district320FTE
- Palmerton Area SDSchool district259FTE
- Jim Thorpe Area SDSchool district238FTE
- Panther Valley SDSchool district183FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 43 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,569 people in all across the county; Beaver Meadows has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); 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
- LightningRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Beaver Meadows’ 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 Carbon County and the Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ metro.
Beaver Meadows home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Beaver Meadows$185,517
- 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.
Zip codes with a Beaver Meadows address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Beaver Meadows — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.