Moosic, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $264,238 (+6.2% in a year). Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$838 (+152%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $15,464 +6%
- $248,774$264,238 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $75,799 +40%
- $188,439$264,238 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.
- Moosic$1,387
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Moosic, PA rose 6.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Moosic, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania
Moosic is a borough of 5,959 people in Lackawanna County. Half its households earn more than $80,187 a year and half less, against $66,223 across Lackawanna County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. 67% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 33% are rented. Unemployment in Lackawanna County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Moosic is a small borough in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run higher than across the county, and a good share of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest and a fair amount of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in manufacturing, professional and business services, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Among the largest workplaces in Moosic are Geisinger Behavioral Health Center Northeast, Signature Building Systems and Bracey's Supermarket. Commutes are short, and some people work from home.
Things to do. Montage Mountain, a ski area, and Rocky Glen Park, an amusement park, are both in or beside town, and Keyser Creek runs through the area too. A short drive away are Steamtown National Historic Site, a protected area devoted to railroading, and Lake Scranton, a reservoir. For a longer outing, Pocono Raceway is a race track a longer drive away.
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- 2,396households
- 40%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 15 mintypical commute
- 14%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lackawanna County had 98,798 jobs in 2025, 0.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 36° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 63°. About 45 inches of snow and 39 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Wilkes-barre International Airport weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Moosic
- Geisinger Behavioral Health CenterNortheastPsychiatric and substance abuse hospitals166
- Signature Building SystemsManufacturing building construction162
- Bracey's Supermarket Inc., MoosicCommissaries, primarily groceries156
- Gerrity's Supermarkets, MoosicGrocery stores96
- Glenmaura Senior livingRest homes without nursing care88
- Legends Global HospitalityFood concession contractors78
- New York Yankees PartnershipBaseball clubs, professional or semiprofessional74
- Frito-LayConfectionery merchant wholesalers44
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 10 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 924 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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Moosic’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 Lackawanna County and the Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA metro.
Moosic home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Moosic$264,238
- Pennsylvania$287,078
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Moosic 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.
- Moosic32.76%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Moosic19
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Moosic10
Zip codes with a Moosic address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Moosic — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.