Oley, Pennsylvania.
. Reading, PA 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
Living in Oley, Berks County, Pennsylvania
Oley, in Berks County, had 1,244 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $88,837 a year and half less, against $79,777 across Berks County. Unemployment in Berks County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Berks County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Oley is a small community in Berks County, home to a modest number of people compared with the towns around it. Household incomes here run higher than across the county as a whole. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and temperatures that stay below freezing at night, and summers turn properly warm by July.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and professional and business services close behind. Across Berks County, the biggest workplaces include Reading Hospital and Medical Center, East Penn Lyons Station and Carpenter Technology. Commutes are fairly short, and a good number of people work from home.
Things to do. Tulpehocken Creek and Antietam Lake are both a short drive away, for time by the water. Also a short drive off, Crystal Cave is a protected area that is open to visitors. For a longer outing, Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site is a longer drive away.
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- 20 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What people in Berks County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Berks County had 175,054 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 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 66°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Reading Nnw weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Berks County
- Rentokil North AmericaNot required18,183
- East Penn Lyons StationStorage battery manufacturing6,114
- Reading Hospital and Medical CenterGeneral hospital4,432FTE
- Reading SDSchool district1,983FTE
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage1,982
- Carpenter TechnologySuperalloys, iron or steel, manufacturing1,977
- Tower Health Medical GroupClinics/centers of health practitioners with multi-industry degrees1,382
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage1,305
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 432 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 87,440 people in all across the county; Oley has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) 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 high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Oley’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 Berks County and the Reading, PA metro.
Oley 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Oley9
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Oley7
Zip codes with a Oley address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Oley — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.