Macungie, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $449,505 (+3.0% in a year), asking rent $2,286 (+3.1%). Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,307 (+124%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,976 +3%
- $436,530$449,505 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $104,433 +30%
- $345,072$449,505 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.
- Macungie$2,359
- 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 Macungie, PA rose 3.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Macungie, PA rose 3.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Macungie runs $1,135/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $1,197 in Oct 2023.
That is $3,421 a month against $2,286 rent: a $2,359 mortgage payment, plus $580 property tax and $481 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Macungie
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$3,421
- Renting$2,286
- Mortgage only$2,359
Property tax · $580/mo 1.55% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Lehigh County, PA
Insurance & upkeep · $481/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Macungie, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania
Macungie is a borough of 3,257 people in Lehigh County. Unemployment in Lehigh County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 1.7% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Macungie is a small borough in Lehigh County, and most of its character comes from being compact and settled. Homes here are priced well above what is typical for the county, and rents are high too, so living in town generally takes a comfortable budget. Winters are cold, with January the chilliest month, summers turn properly warm by July, and the year brings a good deal of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, transport and warehousing, and shops also employing many people. Across Lehigh County, the largest workplaces include the Lehigh Valley hospital system, St. Luke's Hospital and Lehigh Valley Operations, which assembles heavy trucks and buses. The commute is a moderate one, and some residents work from home. County unemployment has eased compared with a year earlier, and the county has gained jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Little Lehigh Creek runs in or beside town, which makes it the easiest place for a walk by the water. A short drive away is Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom, an amusement park, and the Valley Preferred Cycling Center, a stadium built for track cycling. For a quieter outing, Perkiomen Creek is also a short drive away.
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- 1,392households
- 32%of adults have a degree
- 23 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lehigh County had 203,946 jobs in 2025, 1.7% 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, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lehigh County
- Lehigh ValleyGeneral hospital10,225FTE
- St. Lukes HospitalGeneral hospital5,688FTE
- Mack TrucksAssembly plants, heavy trucks, and buses on chassis of own manufacture2,738
- Allentown City SDSchool district2,535FTE
- Automatic Data ProcessingAutomated data processing services2,143
- Parkland SDSchool district1,505FTE
- St Lukes Allentown HospitalHealthcare1,412
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage1,285
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 421 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 84,148 people in all across the county; Macungie 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Macungie’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 Lehigh County and the Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ metro.
Macungie home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Macungie$449,505
- Pennsylvania$287,078
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Macungie listings, and the typical home goes pending in 10 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.
- Macungie20.04%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Macungie10
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Macungie52
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Macungie30
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Macungie$405,054
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Macungie101.98%
Zip codes with a Macungie address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Macungie — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.