Shunk, Pennsylvania.
. Sayre, 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 Shunk, Sullivan County, Pennsylvania
The Census does not count Shunk on its own, so the figures here are Sullivan County's. Half the county's households earn more than $69,764 a year and half less; 12% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 85% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 15% are rented. Unemployment in Sullivan County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 3.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Sullivan 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Shunk is a small town in Sullivan County, in the hills of north-central Pennsylvania. Winters are cold with a good deal of snow, while summers are warm, and the town gets plenty of rain across the year. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and most of the county's households are neighbors who know one another.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in transport, warehouses and utilities, or in the building trades. Unemployment across Sullivan County is lower than it was a year earlier, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before. Few people work from home, so most commutes are made in the car to a workplace outside the house.
Things to do. Loyalsock State Forest lies in or beside the town, a protected area of woods for walking and quiet time outdoors. Lycoming Creek and Towanda Creek are both rivers a short drive away, suited to a day by the water.
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- 2,551households
- 55.9median age
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 31 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What people in Sullivan County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Sullivan County had 1,475 jobs in 2025, 3.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 33° and lows near 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 57°. About 42 inches of snow and 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Canton weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Sullivan County
- Sullivan County SDSchool district128FTE
- Darway Nursing Care CenterSkilled nursing facilities95
- North Mountain SupplyGeneral industry warehouse35
- Dwight Lewis Lumber CoBoards, wood, made from logs or bolts33
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 163 people in all. 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
FEMA rates every natural hazard here relatively low or very low.
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Sullivan County, 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 Sullivan County and the Sayre, PA metro.
Shunk 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.
- Shunk7
Zip codes with a Shunk address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Shunk — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.