Jermyn, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $253,074 (-1.7% in a year). Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$731 (+123%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $4,412 -2%
- $257,486$253,074 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $53,707 +27%
- $199,367$253,074 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.
- Jermyn$1,328
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Jermyn, PA fell 1.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Jermyn, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania
Jermyn is a borough of 2,150 people in Lackawanna County. 77% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 23% are rented. Unemployment in Lackawanna County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% more 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Jermyn is a small borough in Lackawanna County, and most of its homes are lived in by their owners. Few adults here hold a four-year degree compared with what many people expect, and the poverty rate is modest. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while July brings warm summer days, and precipitation is plentiful through the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, government, and banks, insurance and property also employing many people. Across Lackawanna County, the largest workplaces include Community Medical Center, Amazon and the University of Scranton. The typical commute is short, and some residents work from home.
Things to do. Archbald Pothole State Park is a protected area in or beside town, and a handful of small creeks and brooks, such as White Oak Run and Rush Brook, run through or alongside it. A short drive away are Wildcat Creek and Roaring Brook, both streams. Farther afield, a longer drive reaches Steamtown National Historic Site, a protected area, and the Lackawanna River.
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- 924households
- 23%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 19 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lackawanna County had 98,798 jobs in 2025, 0.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 29° and lows near 12°; warmest in July, with highs near 77° and lows near 56°. About 69 inches of snow and 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Pleasant Mount West weather station, 16 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lackawanna County
- Community Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,718FTE
- Vocational Services1,138
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage1,079
- University of ScrantonUniversity or college1,007
- Scranton SDSchool district967FTE
- Regional Hospital of ScrantonGeneral hospital921FTE
- GentexMilitary insignia, textile, manufacturing732
- Saint Joseph's CenterIntellectual and developmental disability intermediate care facilities614
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 195 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 26,197 people in all across the county; Jermyn has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and school districts 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 moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Jermyn’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 Lackawanna County and the Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA metro.
Jermyn home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Jermyn$253,074
- 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.
- Jermyn11
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Jermyn6
Zip codes with a Jermyn address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Jermyn — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.