Kutztown, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $360,792 (+3.9% in a year). Reading, PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,081 (+133%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $13,398 +4%
- $347,395$360,792 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $95,725 +36%
- $265,067$360,792 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.
- Kutztown$1,894
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Kutztown, PA rose 3.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Kutztown, Berks County, Pennsylvania
Kutztown is a borough of 4,162 people in Berks County. 49% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 51% are rented. Unemployment in Berks County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Berks 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Kutztown is a small borough in Berks County, and a good share of its people are adults with a four-year degree. Renters make up a larger part of the town than owners, with more renting households than across the county. Incomes run below the county's, and more residents live below the poverty line than is typical. The drive to work is a moderate one, and a modest number of people work from home. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, summers turn warm in July, and a good deal of rain and melted snow falls over the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, shops and professional and business services. Some of the largest workplaces in town are industrial, among them East Penn MFG, Kutztown Foundry & Machine and SOLO Laboratories Kutztown. Unemployment across Berks County is lower than it was a year earlier, and the county has added a small number of jobs over the past year.
Things to do. In or beside town, the Kutztown 1892 Public School Building is a museum, and State Game Lands Number 182 is protected land for walking and time outdoors. A short drive away are Crystal Cave, another protected area, and Little Lehigh Creek, a river. Farther afield, Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom is an amusement park a longer drive away.
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- 1,925households
- 41%of adults have a degree
- 21%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What people in Berks County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Berks County had 175,054 jobs in 2025, 0.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 38° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 62°. About 49 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Rodale Rsch Ctr weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Kutztown
- East Penn MFGCopper rolling, drawing, extruding, and alloying244
- Kutztown Foundry & MachineSteel foundries63
- SOLO Laboratories KutztownOrthopedic devices manufacturing45
- KutztownMail and parcel delivery20
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 372 people in all. 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
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively 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 Kutztown’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 Berks County and the Reading, PA metro.
Kutztown home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Kutztown$360,792
- Pennsylvania$287,078
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 7 Kutztown 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.
- Kutztown14.46%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Kutztown23
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Kutztown9
Zip codes with a Kutztown address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Kutztown — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.