Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $351,343 (+5.4% in a year), asking rent $1,981 . Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,038 (+129%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $17,950 +5%
- $333,394$351,343 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $82,635 +31%
- $268,709$351,343 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 Summit$1,844
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Clarks Summit, PA rose 5.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Clarks Summit, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania
Clarks Summit is a borough of 5,107 people in Lackawanna County. Half its households earn more than $92,083 a year and half less, against $66,223 across Lackawanna County; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. 73% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 27% 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Clarks Summit is a borough in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania. Residents here tend to be somewhat older than in many places, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run well above the county's, and a large share of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers are warm, with July the hottest, and precipitation is fairly generous through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, restaurants and hotels, and shops also employing a good number. Among the largest workplaces in town are Abington Heights Schools and Gerrity's Supermarkets. Commutes are short, and a fair number of people work from home. Unemployment across the county is lower than it was a year earlier, and the county has added a few jobs over the past year.
Things to do. For time outdoors, the Lackawanna River is a short drive away, and Lake Scranton, a reservoir, is also close by. Steamtown National Historic Site, a protected area, is a short drive off, as is the Electric City Trolley Museum. Nay Aug Park, a garden, is another short drive away.
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- 2,317households
- 56%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 17 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, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Clarks Summit
- Abington Heights SDSchool district373FTE
- Gerrity's Supermarkets, Clarks SummitGrocery stores127
- Clarks SummitMail and parcel delivery38
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 165 people in all. School districts come 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
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively 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 Summit’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 Summit home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Clarks Summit$351,343
- Pennsylvania$287,078
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Clarks Summit 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.
- Clarks Summit31.14%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Clarks Summit64
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Clarks Summit27
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Clarks Summit$358,715
- United States$371,407
Zip codes with a Clarks Summit address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Clarks Summit — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.