Leesport, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $366,535 (+4.3% in a year). Reading, PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,095 (+132%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $15,246 +4%
- $351,290$366,535 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $96,635 +36%
- $269,900$366,535 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.
- Leesport$1,924
- 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 Leesport, PA rose 4.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Leesport, Berks County, Pennsylvania
Leesport is a borough of 1,954 people in Berks County. Half its households earn more than $95,577 a year and half less, against $79,777 across Berks County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 77% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 23% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Leesport is a small borough in Berks County, home to fewer people than most towns of its kind. Households here earn more than the county as a whole, and far more homes are lived in by their owners than rented. Winters are cold and summers are warm, with January the coldest month and July the warmest.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, retail, and professional and business services also employing a good number. 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 specialty metals maker. A commute to work is a fairly short one, and some residents work from home.
Things to do. Lake Ontelaunee lies in or beside town, and Blue Marsh Lake, a reservoir, is a short drive away. Crystal Cave, a protected area, and the Mid-Atlantic Air Museum are also a short drive from town. For a longer outing, Hawk Mountain Sanctuary is a longer drive away.
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- 768households
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 20 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 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, 2 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; Leesport has none 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 moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Leesport’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.
Leesport home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Leesport$366,535
- 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.
- Leesport13
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Leesport7
Zip codes with a Leesport address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Leesport — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.