Northampton, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $352,863 (+2.8% in a year), asking rent $1,694 . Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,062 (+134%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,711 +3%
- $343,153$352,863 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $87,558 +33%
- $265,305$352,863 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.
- Northampton$1,852
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Northampton, PA rose 2.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Northampton, Northampton County, Pennsylvania
Northampton is a borough of 10,395 people in Northampton County. Half its households earn more than $90,762 a year and half less, against $89,184 across Northampton County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. 70% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 30% are rented. Unemployment in Northampton County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 1.5% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Northampton is a borough in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, with a population somewhat older than the typical American town. Household incomes run a little above the county's, and most homes are lived in by their owners. A four-year degree is held by a minority of adults, and commutes tend to be moderate, with some people working from home. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers are warm in July, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in manufacturing, shops, and transport and warehousing. Among the largest workplaces in Northampton are Northampton Area Schools, the pallet wood plant 48forty Solutions, and Redner's Warehouse Market Northampton. Across Northampton County, unemployment is lower than a year earlier, and the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. For a day out, Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom is an amusement park a short drive away. The Allentown Art Museum and the Lehigh Valley Zoo are also a short drive away, and make easy outings for visitors of any age. A longer drive brings you to the Lehigh River, a good choice for time by the water.
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- 4,291households
- 26%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 13%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Northampton County had 122,795 jobs in 2025, 1.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 38° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 65°. About 33 inches of snow and 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Allentown International Airport weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Northampton
- Northampton Area SDSchool district665FTE
- 48forty SolutionsPallet wood plant128
- Redner's Warehouse Market NorthamptonGrocery stores111
- Sacred Heart Senior Living, LLC - NorthamptonContinuing care retirement communities86
- AramarkFood service contractors70
- PennStar - NorthamptonLubricating oils and greases, petroleum, made from refined petroleum64
- Atlas Machining & WeldingMachine shops62
- LVRRefractory contractor42
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 9 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 608 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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Cold 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 Northampton’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 Northampton County and the Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ metro.
Northampton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Northampton$352,863
- Pennsylvania$287,078
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Northampton listings, and the typical home goes pending in 8 days — 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.
- Northampton21.27%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Northampton30
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Northampton17
Zip codes with a Northampton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Northampton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.