Damascus, Pennsylvania.
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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 Damascus, Wayne County, Pennsylvania
Damascus is a township of 3,674 people in Wayne County. 92% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 8% are rented. Unemployment in Wayne County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 2.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Wayne County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Damascus is a township in Wayne County, Pennsylvania, where the population is older than in most places and nearly everyone lives in a home they own. Incomes here run below the county's, and the winters are cold and snowy, while summers stay warm without getting very hot. Rain and melted snow add up to a good deal over the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, the building trades, and restaurants and hotels also giving people a living. Across Wayne County, the largest workplaces include Wayne Memorial Hospital, Wayne Highlands Schools and Walmart. Commutes are on the long side, and few people work from home.
Things to do. The Upper Delaware Scenic and Recreational River is a protected stretch of river a short drive away. Closer still, Dyberry Creek is a river a short drive away, and Lower Woods Pond is a lake a short drive away. For a longer outing, Prompton State Park is a protected area a longer drive away.
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- 1,608households
- 30%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 39 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What people in Wayne County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Wayne County had 15,764 jobs in 2025, 2.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 33° and lows near 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 58°. About 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Milanville weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Wayne County
- Wayne Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital569FTE
- Wayne Highlands SDSchool district366FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters358
- Western Wayne SDSchool district283FTE
- Top Notch DistributorsKeys and locks merchant wholesalers261
- Bureau of Prisons/federal Prison SystemFederal government · Department of Justice173
- Pioneer Construction CompanyUtility line, construction150
- Weis MarketsSupermarkets and other grocery115
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 21 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,551 people in all across the county; Damascus has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Wayne County, 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 Wayne County.
Damascus 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.
- Damascus13
Zip codes with a Damascus address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Damascus — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.