Hawley, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $327,709 (+4.5% in a year). New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,060 (+160%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,239 +5%
- $313,470$327,709 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $71,836 +28%
- $255,873$327,709 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.
- Hawley$1,720
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Hawley, PA rose 4.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hawley, Pike County, Pennsylvania
Hawley is a borough of 1,229 people in Pike County. Half its households earn more than $48,160 a year and half less, against $81,323 across Pike County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. 48% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 52% are rented. Unemployment in Pike County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in restaurants and hotels, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hawley is a small borough in Pike County, a close-knit place by population. Incomes here run well below the county's, and fewer households own their homes than is typical elsewhere in the county. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while July brings the warmest days, still pleasantly mild by summer standards. Rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the year.
Work. Residents mostly work in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, in schools, hospitals and social care, and in shops, with professional and business services also a part of the mix. Across Pike County, some of the largest workplaces are Woodloch Pines, Delaware Valley Schools and Wallenpaupack Area Schools. Unemployment across the county has eased compared with a year earlier, though the number of jobs in the county slipped slightly last year. A typical commute is a modest one, and only a small group work from home.
Things to do. Middle Creek runs in or beside town, so a walk by the water needs no car. Lake Wallenpaupack, a large reservoir, and the Lackawaxen River are both a short drive away, and make good places for time on the water. Dingmans Falls, a waterfall, is a longer drive away and worth the trip for a day out.
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- 523households
- 21%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Pike County had 12,365 jobs in 2025, 0.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 33° and lows near 14°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 57°. About 47 inches of snow and 45 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hawley East weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Pike County
- Woodloch PinesResort hotels without casinos1,210
- Delaware Valley SDSchool district652FTE
- Wallenpaupack Area SDSchool district484FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters357
- Woodloch Spa ResortResort hotels without casinos298
- WakefernGrocery stores242
- Econo-PakRice mixes made from purchased rice and dry ingredients234
- Weis MarketsSupermarkets and other grocery130
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 16 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,206 people in all across the county; Hawley has none of its own. 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Hawley’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 Pike County and the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
Hawley home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hawley$327,709
- Pennsylvania$287,078
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Hawley listings, and the typical home goes pending in 35 days — 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.
- Hawley23.59%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Hawley35
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Hawley186
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Hawley40
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Hawley$340,320
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Hawley96.50%
Zip codes with a Hawley address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hawley — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.