Exeter, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $236,617 (+5.0% in a year). Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$160 (+15%) since Dec 2023.
- 1 year
- Up $11,226 +5%
- $225,391$236,617 since Sep 2025
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.
- Exeter$1,242
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Exeter, PA rose 5.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Exeter, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania
Exeter is a borough of 5,514 people in Luzerne County. 77% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 23% 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 professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Exeter is a small borough in Luzerne County, with a population that sits comfortably within a close-knit scale. Most homes here are lived in by their owners, and the typical home value is modest by the standards of many parts of the country. Household incomes are a little below the county's, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many places.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with professional and business services, shops and manufacturing also employing many people. Wyoming Area Schools is the largest workplace in town, and Keystone Automotive Operations and Bridon-Bekaert Exeter are also among the biggest. The commute is a moderate one for most workers, and a small number work from home.
Things to do. Steamtown National Historic Site and the Electric City Trolley Museum are both a short drive away, for anyone who likes railways and trolleys. Frances Slocum State Park is a short drive away too, a protected area for walking and spending time outdoors. In winter, Montage Mountain, a ski area, is also a short drive, which suits the colder, snowy months.
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- 2,494households
- 26%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 8%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, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Exeter
- Wyoming Area SDSchool district296FTE
- Keystone Automotive OperationsCorporate offices219
- Bridon-Bekaert ExeterWire products, iron or steel, made in iron and steel mills177
- Keystone Automotive OperationsMotor vehicle parts and accessories, new, merchant wholesalers175
- Kurarchik ConstructionHighway, street and bridge lighting and electrical signal installation163
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 734 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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Exeter’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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.
Exeter home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Exeter$236,617
- 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.
- Exeter15
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Exeter6
Zip codes with a Exeter address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Exeter — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.