Duryea, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $215,394 (+3.4% in a year). Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$577 (+104%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,025 +3%
- $208,369$215,394 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $36,847 +21%
- $178,548$215,394 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.
- Duryea$1,131
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 18 years.
Typical home values in Duryea, PA rose 3.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Duryea, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania
Duryea is a borough of 5,036 people in Luzerne County. Half its households earn more than $62,462 a year and half less, against $63,691 across Luzerne County. 70% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 30% are rented. Unemployment in Luzerne County was 5.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Duryea is a small borough in Luzerne County where most homes are lived in by their owners, and the share of owners is higher than in many towns of its size. Household incomes run a little below the county's, and a four-year degree is held by fewer adults than in much of the country. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, professional and business services, and shops also employing many. Within Duryea itself, the largest workplaces include Pride Mobility Products Duryea, which makes wheelchairs, and SCHOTT North America, which produces optical glass. Raymour and Flanigan Furniture, a furniture service center, is also among the biggest. Jobs across the county have slipped slightly, and unemployment there is lower than it was a year ago.
Things to do. Spring Brook and Red Spring Run flow in or beside town, so small streams are close at hand. A short drive away are Steamtown National Historic Site, a protected area devoted to railroading, and Montage Mountain, a ski area that suits the snowy winters. Pocono Raceway, a race track, is a longer drive away.
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- 2,170households
- 24%of adults have a degree
- 26 mintypical commute
- 20%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Luzerne County had 145,109 jobs in 2025, 0.1% fewer 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, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Duryea
- Pride Mobility Products DuryeaWheelchairs manufacturing777
- SCHOTT North America AO-ODBlanks, ophthalmic lens and optical glass, made in glass making plants155
- Raymour and Flanigan FurnitureService center- furniture45
- Brandon Balchune ConstructionFoundation, building, poured concrete, contractors27
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,004 people in all. 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
- Inland floodingVery high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Duryea’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Luzerne County and the Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA metro.
Duryea home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Duryea$215,394
- 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.
- Duryea12
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Duryea6
Zip codes with a Duryea address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Duryea — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.