Berwick, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $212,105 (+1.5% in a year), asking rent $1,088 . Bloomsburg-Berwick, PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$508 (+84%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,151 +2%
- $208,955$212,105 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $16,998 +9%
- $195,107$212,105 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.
- Berwick$1,113
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 41 years.
Typical home values in Berwick, PA rose 1.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Berwick, Columbia County, Pennsylvania
Berwick is a borough of 10,327 people in Columbia County. Half its households earn more than $49,800 a year and half less, against $64,644 across Columbia County; 16% of its people live below the poverty line. 60% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 40% are rented. Unemployment in Columbia County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% fewer 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Berwick is a small borough on the Susquehanna River in Columbia County, home to a little over what most would call a modest-sized town. Residents are somewhat older than the national typical, and most homes are lived in by their owners, though a good number rent. Incomes run below the county's, and more people live below the poverty line than most would expect. Few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm but not hot, with plenty of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in manufacturing, shops, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Among the largest workplaces in Berwick are Wabtec Components, which makes railroad equipment, Cheetah Chassis, a maker of car-transporter trailers, and Weis Markets, a supermarket. The typical commute is short, and only a small share of people work from home. Across Columbia County, there are slightly fewer jobs than a year earlier, and unemployment has eased over the past year.
Things to do. Briar Creek Reservoir is in or beside town, a convenient spot for time by the water. State Game Lands Number 55, a protected area for hunting and walking, is a short drive away. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to Ricketts Glen State Park, a protected area, and to Knoebels Amusement Resort, an amusement park.
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- 4,643households
- 21%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Columbia County had 24,066 jobs in 2025, 1.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 33° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 58°. About 46 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Benton Northeast weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Berwick
- Volumetric Building CompaniesBuildings, mobile, commercial use, manufacturing178
- Cheetah ChassisAutomobile transporter trailers, multi-car, manufacturing108
- Weis MarketsSupermarkets and other grocery105
- Wabtec ComponentsRailroad rolling stock manufacturing71
- Boyer's Food Markets -BerwickGrocery stores51
- Breezeline - BerwickInternet service providers, using own operated wired telecommunications infrastructure40
- Eastern Lift Truck Co., Inc. Br11Commercial and industrial machinery repair and maintenance services40
- BerwickMail and parcel delivery34
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 9 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 658 people in all. 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Berwick’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 Columbia County and the Bloomsburg-Berwick, PA metro.
Berwick home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Berwick$212,105
- Pennsylvania$287,078
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Berwick listings — the market is cooling.
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.
- Berwick27.59%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Berwick47
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Berwick21
Zip codes with a Berwick address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Berwick — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.