Mount Cobb, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $301,435 (+1.1% in a year). Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$891 (+129%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,348 +1%
- $298,087$301,435 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $68,735 +30%
- $232,700$301,435 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.
- Mount Cobb$1,582
- 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 Mount Cobb, PA rose 1.1% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Mount Cobb, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania
Mount Cobb, in Lackawanna County, had 1,763 people in the 2020 census. 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 people in Lackawanna County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Mount Cobb is a small community in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, with a population that keeps to a village scale. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers turn warm by July. Rain and melted snow arrive steadily through the year. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than not, and a good share of people work from home, while the usual trip to work is a moderate one.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing, and in professional and business services. Across Lackawanna County, some of the largest workplaces are Community Medical Center, the University of Scranton and Scranton Schools. Unemployment across the county has eased compared with a year earlier, and the number of jobs has grown slightly.
Things to do. Steamtown National Historic Site is a protected area a short drive away, and the Electric City Trolley Museum is also close by. For time outdoors, Nay Aug Park is a garden a short drive away, and Lake Scranton is a reservoir within the same short distance. Skiers can head to Montage Mountain, a ski area a short drive away.
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- 634households
- 30%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 17%work from home
What people in Lackawanna County 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, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lackawanna County
- Community Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,718FTE
- Vocational Services1,138
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage1,079
- University of ScrantonUniversity or college1,007
- Scranton SDSchool district967FTE
- Regional Hospital of ScrantonGeneral hospital921FTE
- GentexMilitary insignia, textile, manufacturing732
- Saint Joseph's CenterIntellectual and developmental disability intermediate care facilities614
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 195 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 26,197 people in all across the county; Mount Cobb has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Mount Cobb’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 Lackawanna County and the Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA metro.
Mount Cobb home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Mount Cobb$301,435
- 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.
- Mount Cobb6
Zip codes with a Mount Cobb address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mount Cobb — 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.