Coplay, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $358,475 (+3.4% in a year). Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,086 (+137%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,903 +3%
- $346,572$358,475 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $96,624 +37%
- $261,851$358,475 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.
- Coplay$1,882
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Coplay, PA rose 3.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Coplay, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania
Coplay is a borough of 3,348 people in Lehigh County. Half its households earn more than $61,906 a year and half less, against $80,079 across Lehigh County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. 64% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 36% are rented. Unemployment in Lehigh County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 1.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then transport and warehouses.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Coplay is a small borough in Lehigh County, with a compact set of streets and a close-knit feel. Most homes are lived in by their owners, though there are more renters than you might expect in a place this size. Incomes run below the county's, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many nearby communities. Winters are cold and snowy, summers turn properly warm, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by transport, warehouses and utilities, then shops and manufacturing. Across Lehigh County, the largest workplaces include Lehigh Valley, a general hospital, and St. Luke's Hospital, along with Allentown City Schools. Few people work from home, and a typical commute is a moderate drive.
Things to do. Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom, an amusement park, is a short drive away, as is the Allentown Art Museum for a quieter afternoon. Nazareth Speedway, a race track, is also a short drive away. For time by the water, the Lehigh River is a longer drive.
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- 1,477households
- 19%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lehigh County had 203,946 jobs in 2025, 1.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 38° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 65°. About 33 inches of snow and 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Allentown International Airport weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lehigh County
- Lehigh ValleyGeneral hospital10,225FTE
- St. Lukes HospitalGeneral hospital5,688FTE
- Mack TrucksAssembly plants, heavy trucks, and buses on chassis of own manufacture2,738
- Allentown City SDSchool district2,535FTE
- Automatic Data ProcessingAutomated data processing services2,143
- Parkland SDSchool district1,505FTE
- St Lukes Allentown HospitalHealthcare1,412
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage1,285
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 421 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 84,148 people in all across the county; Coplay has one 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Coplay’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 Lehigh County and the Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ metro.
Coplay home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Coplay$358,475
- Pennsylvania$287,078
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Coplay listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Coplay16
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Coplay10
Zip codes with a Coplay address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Coplay — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.