Olyphant, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $251,070 (+8.5% in a year), asking rent $1,600 . Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$845 (+179%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $19,657 +8%
- $231,413$251,070 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $92,483 +58%
- $158,588$251,070 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.
- Olyphant$1,318
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 8 years.
Typical home values in Olyphant, PA rose 8.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Olyphant, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania
Olyphant is a borough of 5,383 people in Lackawanna County. Half its households earn more than $66,423 a year and half less, against $66,223 across Lackawanna County; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. 69% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 31% are rented. Unemployment in Lackawanna County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Olyphant is a small borough in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, with a population of the kind where neighbors tend to know one another. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes sit close to the county's. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers turn warm in July. Precipitation is steady through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, government and shops also employing many. Within Olyphant itself, some of the largest workplaces are Amazon, Canpack US LLC Olyphant and Cintas, mostly in warehousing and metal can manufacturing. Commutes are fairly short, and some people work from home.
Things to do. Wildcat Creek and Price Creek run in or beside town, and Steamtown National Historic Site, a protected area, is a short drive away. Also a short drive off is Nay Aug Park, a garden setting. Lake Scranton, a reservoir, is close by as well, while Pocono Raceway, a race track, is a longer drive.
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- 2,312households
- 28%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 19 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lackawanna County had 98,798 jobs in 2025, 0.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 36° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 63°. About 45 inches of snow and 39 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Wilkes-barre International Airport weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Olyphant
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage1,079
- Canpack US LLC OlyphantAluminum cans, light gauge metal, manufacturing554
- CintasGeneral warehousing & storage79
- OlyphantMail and parcel delivery31
- Saint-Gobain CeramicsGrains, abrasive, natural and artificial, manufacturing29
- Capstone - Canpack OlyphantGeneral warehousing and storage26
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,798 people in all. 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 floodingVery high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LightningRelatively 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 Olyphant’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 Lackawanna County and the Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA metro.
Olyphant home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Olyphant$251,070
- Pennsylvania$287,078
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Olyphant listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Olyphant16
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Olyphant8
Zip codes with a Olyphant address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Olyphant — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.