Clarks Green, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $358,278 (+8.2% in a year). Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,109 (+144%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $27,046 +8%
- $331,233$358,278 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $102,005 +40%
- $256,273$358,278 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.
- Clarks Green$1,881
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Clarks Green, PA rose 8.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Clarks Green, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania
Clarks Green is a borough of 1,524 people in Lackawanna County. Half its households earn more than $113,850 a year and half less, against $66,223 across Lackawanna County; 4% of its people live below the poverty line. 92% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 8% are rented. Unemployment in Lackawanna County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% more 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Clarks Green is a small borough in Lackawanna County, home to roughly the same number of people as a large high school might hold. Residents are older than in most communities, and nearly everyone owns the home they live in. Household incomes run well above the county's, relatively few people live in poverty, and a majority of adults hold a four-year degree.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, professional and business services, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Lackawanna County, some of the largest workplaces are Community Medical Center, the University of Scranton and Scranton Schools. Commutes are fairly short, and a noticeable number of people work from home.
Things to do. Steamtown National Historic Site, a protected railroad heritage area, and the Electric City Trolley Museum are both a short drive away. Nay Aug Park, a garden and public park, is also a short drive away, as is the Lackawanna River for time beside the water. Winters are cold and snowy, and summers are warm, so the outdoor places suit the warmer months best.
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- 639households
- 57%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 15%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lackawanna County had 98,798 jobs in 2025, 0.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 36° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 63°. About 45 inches of snow and 39 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Wilkes-barre International Airport weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lackawanna County
- Community Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,718FTE
- Vocational Services1,138
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage1,079
- University of ScrantonUniversity or college1,007
- Scranton SDSchool district967FTE
- Regional Hospital of ScrantonGeneral hospital921FTE
- GentexMilitary insignia, textile, manufacturing732
- Saint Joseph's CenterIntellectual and developmental disability intermediate care facilities614
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 195 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 26,197 people in all across the county; Clarks Green has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Clarks Green’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 Lackawanna County and the Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA metro.
Clarks Green home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Clarks Green$358,278
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Clarks Green9
Zip codes with a Clarks Green address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Clarks Green — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.