Nescopeck, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $248,516 (+2.9% in a year). Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$61 (+5%) since Dec 2023.
- 1 year
- Up $6,896 +3%
- $241,620$248,516 since Sep 2025
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.
- Nescopeck$1,304
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Nescopeck, PA rose 2.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Nescopeck, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania
Nescopeck is a borough of 1,480 people in Luzerne County. Half its households earn more than $62,833 a year and half less, against $63,691 across Luzerne County; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. 67% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 33% 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 people in Luzerne 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Nescopeck is a small borough in Luzerne County, home to a modest number of people who mostly own the homes they live in. Household incomes sit just below the county's, and relatively few residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and a good deal of snow falls each year. Summers are warm, and rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the course of the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, manufacturing, and professional and business services. A typical commute is a short drive, and a small group of residents work from home. Across Luzerne County, some of the largest workplaces are Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center, Amazon and Hazleton Area Schools. Unemployment in the county has eased compared with a year earlier, though the number of jobs has slipped slightly.
Things to do. For time outdoors, State Game Lands Number 55, a protected area, and Briar Creek Reservoir are both a short drive away. Black Creek, a stream good for a walk along its banks, is close by as well. A longer drive brings you to Ricketts Glen State Park, a protected area, and to Knoebels Amusement Resort, an amusement park.
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- 710households
- 24%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What people in Luzerne County 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 33° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 58°. About 46 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Benton Northeast weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Luzerne County
- Geisinger Wyoming Valley MED CTRGeneral hospital2,715FTE
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage2,610
- NBC Pittston MerchantsBonded warehousing, general merchandise1,456
- Hazleton Area SDSchool district1,353FTE
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs1,315
- ChewyGeneral warehousing and storage1,134
- ChewyGeneral warehousing and storage1,122
- Benco DentalDental equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers1,089
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 338 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 52,411 people in all across the county; Nescopeck has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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 floodingRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively 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 Nescopeck’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 Luzerne County and the Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA metro.
Nescopeck home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Nescopeck$248,516
- 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.
- Nescopeck12
Zip codes with a Nescopeck address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Nescopeck — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.