Nanticoke, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $174,087 (+1.6% in a year), asking rent $1,150 . Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$578 (+172%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,801 +2%
- $171,285$174,087 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $51,715 +42%
- $122,372$174,087 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.
- Nanticoke$914
- 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 Nanticoke, PA rose 1.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Nanticoke, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania
Nanticoke is a city of 10,628 people in Luzerne County. Half its households earn more than $57,462 a year and half less, against $63,691 across Luzerne County; 19% of its people live below the poverty line. 56% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 44% are rented. Unemployment in Luzerne County was 5.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in shops, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Nanticoke is a small city in Luzerne County where most homes are lived in by their owners, though renters are a real part of the town too. Incomes run below the county's, and more people live below the poverty line than you might expect in a typical American town. A four-year degree is held by fewer adults here than in much of the country. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm without being hot.
Work. Residents work mostly in shops, in schools, hospitals and social care, in transport, warehouses and utilities, and in manufacturing. Some of the biggest workplaces in town are Greater Nanticoke Area Schools and White Transit School Buses. Jobs across the county have slipped slightly over the past year, and unemployment is lower than it was a year ago. Most people have a fairly short commute, and a small share work from home.
Things to do. Nanticoke Creek and Warrior Creek both run in or beside town, so there is water close at hand for a walk along the bank. A short drive away are Toby Creek and Hunlock Creek, both small rivers. For a bigger outing, Ricketts Glen State Park is a protected natural area a longer drive away, and Pocono Raceway, a race track, is also a longer drive.
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- 4,415households
- 19%of adults have a degree
- 19%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Luzerne County had 145,109 jobs in 2025, 0.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 31° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 79° and lows near 58°. About 49 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Francis East Walter Dam weather station, 15 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Nanticoke
- Greater Nanticoke Area SDSchool district262FTE
- White Transit School BusesSchool bus services28
- NanticokeMail and parcel delivery21
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 49 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
- Winter weatherrelatively high in parts of NanticokeRelatively 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 Nanticoke’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 Luzerne County and the Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA metro.
Nanticoke home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Nanticoke$174,087
- Pennsylvania$287,078
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Nanticoke listings — the market is heating up.
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.
- Nanticoke25.90%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Nanticoke31
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Nanticoke14
Zip codes with a Nanticoke address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Nanticoke — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.