Catawissa, Pennsylvania.
. Bloomsburg-Berwick, PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$793 (+111%) since Jan 2020.
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.
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
Living in Catawissa, Columbia County, Pennsylvania
Catawissa is a borough of 1,536 people in Columbia County. Half its households earn more than $51,992 a year and half less, against $64,644 across Columbia County; 16% of its people live below the poverty line. 57% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 43% 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 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Catawissa is a small borough in Columbia County, a place where many residents are older than in the typical American town. Incomes run below the county's, and somewhat more households rent than across the county as a whole. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest; precipitation through the year is plentiful.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, restaurants and hotels, and government also employing many. Across Columbia County, the largest workplaces include Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania, Talen Energy and WebstaurantStore. Unemployment across the county is lower than a year ago, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before, and the usual trip to work is fairly short.
Things to do. Knoebels Amusement Resort, an amusement park, is a short drive away, as is Wyoming State Forest, a protected area for walking and time outdoors. For some time by the water, Catawissa Creek is a longer drive away, as is the Schuylkill River.
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- 723households
- 26%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 5%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 35° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 61°. About 34 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Bear Gap weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Columbia County
- Commonwealth University of PennsylvaniaUniversity or college1,568
- Talen EnergyNuclear power generation1,000
- WebstaurantStoreGeneral warehousing and storage464
- DC6 DC6 BerwickGeneral warehousing and storage458
- Kawneer CompanyDoors, metal, manufacturing448
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters386
- PCBPet food manufacturing385
- Autoneum BloomsburgAutomobile trimmings, textile, manufacturing308
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 58 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 7,871 people in all across the county; Catawissa has one of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24). 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 moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Catawissa’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 Columbia County and the Bloomsburg-Berwick, PA metro.
Catawissa home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Catawissa14
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Catawissa5
Zip codes with a Catawissa address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Catawissa — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.