Palm, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $386,546 (+3.4% in a year). Reading, PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$195 (+11%) since Dec 2023.
- 1 year
- Up $12,649 +3%
- $373,897$386,546 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.
- Palm$2,029
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Palm, PA rose 3.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Palm, Berks County, Pennsylvania
The Census does not count Palm on its own, so the figures here are Berks County's. Half the county's households earn more than $79,777 a year and half less; 12% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 71% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 29% are rented. 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 Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Palm is a small town in Berks County, Pennsylvania, where the figures shown are for the whole county. Across Berks County, most homes are lived in by their owners, and many households have a mix of incomes like those found across the region. Winters are cold, with lows well below freezing, while summers are warm and the year is fairly wet.
Work. Unemployment across Berks County has fallen recently, and the county has gained jobs lately. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in shops, or in professional and business services. Most people commute by car, and relatively few work from home.
Things to do. Perkiomen Creek runs in or beside the town, making it the most immediate outdoor spot to visit. Bear Creek Ski and Recreation Area is a ski area a short drive away. Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom, an amusement park, is a longer drive off.
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- 163,236households
- 39.9median age
- 28%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 12%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 38° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 62°. About 49 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Rodale Rsch Ctr weather station, 13 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. 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 weatherVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Berks County, 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 Berks County and the Reading, PA metro.
Palm home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Palm$386,546
- 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.
Zip codes with a Palm address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Palm — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.