Freeland, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $175,846 (+5.1% in a year). Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$594 (+180%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,463 +5%
- $167,383$175,846 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $52,024 +42%
- $123,822$175,846 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.
- Freeland$923
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Freeland, PA rose 5.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Freeland, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania
Freeland is a borough of 3,833 people in Luzerne County. 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Freeland is a small borough in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, in coal-region country where towns sit close together. Homes here are valued well below what is typical for the country as a whole, and a larger share of residents live below the poverty line than across the country. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers are mild and warm, and the year brings a good deal of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, transport and warehouses, and shops also employing many people. Across Luzerne County, the largest workplaces include Geisinger Wyoming Valley MED CTR, Amazon and Hazleton Area Schools. The county has fewer jobs than a year earlier, and unemployment there has eased since last year. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than is typical across the country, and most people travel to work rather than working from home.
Things to do. Nescopeck State Park is a protected area a short drive away, and Lehigh Gorge State Park, also a short drive away, is another protected area for time outdoors. Catawissa Creek, a river a short drive away, is nearby too. Angela Park, an amusement park, is also a short drive away, and Pocono Raceway, a race track, is a longer drive.
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- 1,640households
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 24%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 7%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 31° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 79° and lows near 58°. About 49 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Francis East Walter Dam weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Luzerne County
- Geisinger Wyoming Valley MED CTRGeneral hospital2,715FTE
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage2,610
- NBC Pittston MerchantsBonded warehousing, general merchandise1,456
- Hazleton Area SDSchool district1,353FTE
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs1,315
- ChewyGeneral warehousing and storage1,134
- ChewyGeneral warehousing and storage1,122
- Benco DentalDental equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers1,089
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 338 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 52,411 people in all across the county; Freeland has one 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively 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 Freeland’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Luzerne County and the Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA metro.
Freeland home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Freeland$175,846
- Pennsylvania$287,078
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Freeland 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.
- Freeland30.63%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Freeland21
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Freeland5
Zip codes with a Freeland address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Freeland — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.