Hellertown, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $379,931 (+2.8% in a year), asking rent $2,204 . Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,133 (+132%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,382 +3%
- $369,549$379,931 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $90,234 +31%
- $289,697$379,931 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.
- Hellertown$1,994
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Hellertown, PA rose 2.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hellertown, Northampton County, Pennsylvania
Hellertown is a borough of 6,132 people in Northampton County. Half its households earn more than $72,813 a year and half less, against $89,184 across Northampton County; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. 67% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 33% are rented. 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 residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hellertown is a small borough in Northampton County where most homes are lived in by their owners, and where renters make up a smaller part of the community than in many towns. Household incomes run below the county's, and a typical home costs more than many would guess for a place this size, with rents to match. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and a good deal of snow, and summers are warm, with July the warmest; precipitation is generous through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, professional and business services, and manufacturing. A fair number of people work from home, and the typical commute is a moderate one. Across Northampton County, some of the largest workplaces are Lehigh University, Bethlehem Area Schools and FedEx, and the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Goodman Stadium is in or beside town, and Silver Creek and Black River run close by for anyone who likes to be near water. A short drive away are the Allentown Art Museum and Central Park. Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom, an amusement park, is a longer drive away.
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- 2,398households
- 31%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 19%work from home
What residents 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 37° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 62°. About 41 inches of snow and 53 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Springtown Nne 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; Hellertown has one 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
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Hellertown’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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 Northampton County and the Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ metro.
Hellertown home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hellertown$379,931
- Pennsylvania$287,078
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Hellertown listings, and the typical home goes pending in 7 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.
- Hellertown20.26%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Hellertown36
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Hellertown15
Zip codes with a Hellertown address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hellertown — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.