Shamokin, Pennsylvania.
. Sunbury, 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 Shamokin, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania
Shamokin is a city of 6,942 people in Northumberland County. Half its households earn more than $39,690 a year and half less, against $60,583 across Northumberland County; 25% of its people live below the poverty line. 60% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 40% are rented. Unemployment in Northumberland County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Shamokin is a small city, with a median age a little younger than the typical American town. Incomes run well below the county's, and a good share of residents live below the poverty line. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January highs near freezing and lows well below it, and a fair amount of snow falls each year. Summers are warm, with July the warmest month, and rain and melted snow add up to a good deal over the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, restaurants and hotels, and manufacturing. Across Northumberland County, some of the largest workplaces are Weis Markets, Watsontown Trucking Company and the Chef Boyardee canning operation. The county's job count has held steady, and unemployment has eased compared with a year ago. The typical commute is fairly long, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Knoebels Amusement Resort is an amusement park a short drive away, and the tourist attractions Impulse and Twister are also a short drive off. Several small streams run in or beside town, among them Coal Run and Bennys Run, and the Schuylkill River is a longer drive away.
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- 3,023households
- 11%of adults have a degree
- 25%below the poverty line
- 32 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Northumberland County had 26,997 jobs in 2025, 0.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 35° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 61°. About 34 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Bear Gap weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Northumberland County
- Weis MarketsCorporate, subsidiary, and regional managing offices854
- Weis MarketsRefrigerted warehousing and storage718
- Watsontown Trucking CompanyGeneral freight trucking, long-distance, truckload664
- HTFC - Chef BoyardeeItalian foods canning492
- Geisinger Shamokin Area Community HospitalHealthcare404
- Shikellamy SDSchool district369FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters334
- CCI IndustriesTruck trailer manufacturing324
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 83 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 9,066 people in all across the county; Shamokin has two of its own. 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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Shamokin’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 Northumberland County and the Sunbury, PA metro.
Shamokin 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.
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Shamokin listings — the market is cooling.
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.
- Shamokin29.70%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Shamokin61
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Shamokin15
Zip codes with a Shamokin address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Shamokin — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.