Milton, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $240,682 (+8.0% in a year). Sunbury, PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$651 (+106%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $17,898 +8%
- $222,783$240,682 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $49,779 +26%
- $190,902$240,682 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.
- Milton$1,263
- 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 Milton, PA rose 8.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Milton, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania
Milton is a borough of 6,609 people in Northumberland County. Half its households earn more than $54,577 a year and half less, against $60,583 across Northumberland County; 15% of its people live below the poverty line. 48% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 52% are rented. Unemployment in Northumberland County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Milton is a small borough in Northumberland County, in the Susquehanna River country of central Pennsylvania. Household incomes here run below the county's, and fewer homes are lived in by their owners than you might expect in a place this size, so renting is common. Winters are cold and snowy, summers are warm, and rain and snowmelt fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Among the largest workplaces in town are Weis Markets, Milton Area Schools and Milton Steel Company. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many places, and some people work from home.
Things to do. Milton State Park, a protected area, lies in or beside town, which makes it an easy place for a walk. The West Branch Susquehanna River is a short drive away, as is Shikellamy State Park, another protected area. For a longer outing, Loyalsock Creek is a river a longer drive away.
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- 2,843households
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 13%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Northumberland County had 26,997 jobs in 2025, 0.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 35° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 62°. About 29 inches of snow and 44 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lewisburg weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Milton
- Weis MarketsRefrigerted warehousing and storage718
- Watsontown Trucking CompanyGeneral freight trucking, long-distance, truckload664
- HTFC - Chef BoyardeeItalian foods canning492
- Milton Area SDSchool district279FTE
- Weis MarketsSupermarkets and other grocery112
- Milton Steel CompanyStructural steel, fabricated, manufacturing84
- Patton WarehousingGeneral warehousing and storage63
- Keystone Sporting ArmsGuns manufacturing47
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 13 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,366 people in all. School districts come 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 floodingVery high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Milton’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 Northumberland County and the Sunbury, PA metro.
Milton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Milton$240,682
- 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 4 Milton 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.
- Milton27.46%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Milton21
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Milton9
Zip codes with a Milton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Milton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.