Glendon, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $276,335 (+4.1% in a year). Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$816 (+129%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,871 +4%
- $265,464$276,335 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $71,630 +35%
- $204,705$276,335 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.
- Glendon$1,450
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Glendon, PA rose 4.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Glendon, Northampton County, Pennsylvania
Glendon is a borough of 373 people in Northampton County. Half its households earn more than $105,833 a year and half less, against $89,184 across Northampton County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Northampton County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 1.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Northampton County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Glendon is a very small borough in Northampton County, with far fewer residents than most towns. Household incomes here run above the county's, and fewer people live below the poverty line than you might expect for a place this size. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and freezing nights, while July brings warm days, and the year is fairly wet, with rain and melted snow spread across the seasons.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and professional and business services also common. Across Northampton County, some of the largest workplaces are Lehigh University, Bethlehem Area Schools and FedEx. Fewer adults here hold a four-year degree than you might guess from the incomes, and a fair number of people work from home rather than commute.
Things to do. The Lehigh River runs in or beside town, and the Peace Candle, a protected area, is close by too. A short drive away are Bushkill Park, an amusement park, and Nazareth Speedway, a race track. For a longer day out, Delaware Canal State Park is a longer drive away.
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- 19%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 13%work from home
What people in Northampton County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Northampton County had 122,795 jobs in 2025, 1.5% 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 64°. About 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Phillipsburg-easton Brg weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Northampton County
- Lehigh UniversityUniversity or college1,997
- Bethlehem Area SDSchool district1,953FTE
- FedExCourier and express delivery services1,720
- St Luke Hospital Anderson CampusGeneral hospital1,665FTE
- Victaulic - ForksDuctile iron foundries1,567
- Northampton County Area Community CollegeTwo-year college1,534
- WalmartGeneral warehousing and storage1,215
- UPSCouriers and express delivery services1,190
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 338 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 48,225 people in all across the county; Glendon has two of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively 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 Glendon’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 Northampton County and the Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ metro.
Glendon home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Glendon$276,335
- 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.
Zip codes with a Glendon address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Glendon — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.