Prompton, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $296,940 (+2.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$912 (+141%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,105 +2%
- $290,835$296,940 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $57,847 +24%
- $239,093$296,940 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.
- Prompton$1,559
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Prompton, PA rose 2.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Prompton, Wayne County, Pennsylvania
Prompton is a borough of 237 people in Wayne County. Unemployment in Wayne County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 2.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Wayne County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Prompton is a very small borough in Wayne County, Pennsylvania, with far fewer people than most towns and a quiet, settled feel. Winters are cold, with a good deal of snow, and summers are warm without being hot. Homes here are valued above what is typical for the county's household incomes, and fewer residents live below the poverty line than you might expect for a rural area.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, the building trades, and restaurants and hotels also employing a good share. A fair number of people work from home. Across Wayne County, some of the largest workplaces are Wayne Memorial Hospital, Wayne Highlands Schools and Walmart. Unemployment across the county has eased compared with a year earlier, and the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Prompton State Park, a protected area, sits in or beside town, as does Van Auken Creek, a small river. A short drive away is the Varden Conservation Area, another protected area good for a walk. For a longer outing, Lake Wallenpaupack, a large reservoir, is a longer drive away.
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- 4%below the poverty line
- 13%work from home
What people in Wayne County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Wayne County had 15,764 jobs in 2025, 2.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 33° and lows near 14°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 57°. About 47 inches of snow and 45 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hawley East weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Wayne County
- Wayne Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital569FTE
- Wayne Highlands SDSchool district366FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters358
- Western Wayne SDSchool district283FTE
- Top Notch DistributorsKeys and locks merchant wholesalers261
- Bureau of Prisons/federal Prison SystemFederal government · Department of Justice173
- Pioneer Construction CompanyUtility line, construction150
- Weis MarketsSupermarkets and other grocery115
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 21 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,551 people in all across the county; Prompton has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts 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
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively 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 Prompton’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Wayne County.
Prompton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Prompton$296,940
- 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 Prompton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Prompton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.