Laureldale, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $244,535 (+6.0% in a year). Reading, PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$787 (+159%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $13,939 +6%
- $230,596$244,535 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $79,810 +48%
- $164,725$244,535 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.
- Laureldale$1,284
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 9 years.
Typical home values in Laureldale, PA rose 6.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Laureldale, Berks County, Pennsylvania
Laureldale is a borough of 4,277 people in Berks County. 81% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 19% 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Laureldale is a small borough in Berks County, and most homes here are lived in by their owners. The population is younger than in many towns where older homeowners tend to settle, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers turn properly warm by July.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and professional and business services also employing many. Few work from home. Across Berks County, some of the largest workplaces are Reading Hospital and Medical Center, East Penn Lyons Station, which makes storage batteries, and Carpenter Technology, a maker of specialty steel and alloys.
Things to do. The Mid-Atlantic Air Museum is in or beside town, and the Reading Public Museum, which has a botanical garden, is a short drive away. For time outdoors, Antietam Lake is a reservoir a short drive off, and Tulpehocken Creek is another short drive away.
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- 1,514households
- 11%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 3%work from home
What residents 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 39° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 66°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Reading Nnw weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Berks County
- Rentokil North AmericaNot required18,183
- East Penn Lyons StationStorage battery manufacturing6,114
- Reading Hospital and Medical CenterGeneral hospital4,432FTE
- Reading SDSchool district1,983FTE
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage1,982
- Carpenter TechnologySuperalloys, iron or steel, manufacturing1,977
- Tower Health Medical GroupClinics/centers of health practitioners with multi-industry degrees1,382
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage1,305
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 432 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 87,440 people in all across the county; Laureldale has two of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) 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
- Winter weatherRelatively 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 Laureldale’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Berks County and the Reading, PA metro.
Laureldale home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Laureldale$244,535
- 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.
- Laureldale6
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Laureldale address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Laureldale — 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.