Newtown, Pennsylvania.
, asking rent $3,003 (+3.0%). Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$793 (+111%) since Jan 2020.
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.
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
Asking rents in Newtown, PA rose 3.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Living in Newtown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania
Newtown is a borough of 2,268 people in Bucks County. Half its households earn more than $166,429 a year and half less, against $114,764 across Bucks County; 2% of its people live below the poverty line. 73% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 27% are rented. Unemployment in Bucks County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Newtown is a small borough in Bucks County where most homes are lived in by their owners, and incomes run well above the county's. Very few residents live below the poverty line, and a large majority of adults hold a four-year degree. Renting is on the pricey side, with typical rents high for the region. Winters are cold, with a fair amount of snow, summers are warm, and the year brings plenty of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by professional and business services, banks, insurance and property, and manufacturing. In Newtown itself, Council Rock Schools is the largest workplace, and ABM Industries and the National Cemetery Administration are also among the biggest. The typical commute is a moderate one, and a good number of residents work from home. Unemployment across Bucks County is lower than a year ago, and the county has added a few more jobs.
Things to do. A short drive away is the New Jersey State House, a museum in Trenton. A longer drive takes you to Philadelphia, where Independence Hall is an archaeological site at the heart of the nation's founding story, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art is one of the best known museums in the country. Also a longer drive away is Lincoln Financial Field, a stadium for football fans.
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- 980households
- 75%of adults have a degree
- 2%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 22%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Bucks County had 276,735 jobs in 2025, 0.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 39° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 65°. About 20 inches of snow and 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Neshaminy Falls weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Newtown
- Council Rock SDSchool district1,424FTE
- Summit School ServicesSchool and employee bus transportation187
- AramarkFood service contractors90
- ABM IndustriesService to buildings and dwellings78
- Castle Delivery ServicesCourier57
- National Cemetery AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs22
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 412 people in all. School districts come 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
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Newtown’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 Bucks County and the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD metro.
Newtown home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
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 3 Newtown listings, and the typical home goes pending in 10 days — the market is cooling.
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.
- Newtown30.70%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Newtown10
- United States24
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Newtown90
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Newtown32
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Newtown100.35%
Zip codes with a Newtown address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Newtown — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.