Slatington, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $341,298 (+3.9% in a year). Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,040 (+139%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,749 +4%
- $328,549$341,298 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $90,175 +36%
- $251,122$341,298 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.
- Slatington$1,791
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Slatington, PA rose 3.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Slatington, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania
Slatington is a borough of 4,283 people in Lehigh County. Half its households earn more than $49,625 a year and half less, against $80,079 across Lehigh County; 26% of its people live below the poverty line. 59% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 41% are rented. Unemployment in Lehigh County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 1.7% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Slatington is a small borough on the Lehigh River, with a younger population than many places in the region. Most homes are lived in by their owners, though renters are a real part of the community too. Incomes in town run well below the county's, and a good many residents live below the poverty line. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and the borough has a long working-town character. Winters are cold, with highs in January staying just above freezing and lows well below it, and a fair amount of snow falls each year. Summers are warm, and rain and melted snow add up to a wet year overall.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, retail and professional and business services also employing many. Across Lehigh County, some of the largest workplaces are Lehigh Valley and St. Luke's Hospital, both general hospitals, along with Allentown City Schools. The commute is a fairly long one for a small town, and only a small number of people work from home. Unemployment across the county has come down over the past year, and the county has added jobs.
Things to do. The Lehigh Canal, an archaeological site, lies in or beside town, and is an easy place for a walk along the old waterway. A short drive away are Trexler Nature Preserve, a protected area, and the Lehigh Valley Zoo. Beltzville State Park, also a protected area, is a short drive away too, and the Lehigh River itself is a longer drive.
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- 1,700households
- 13%of adults have a degree
- 26%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lehigh County had 203,946 jobs in 2025, 1.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 36° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 62°. About 27 inches of snow and 52 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lehighton 1SSW weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lehigh County
- Lehigh ValleyGeneral hospital10,225FTE
- St. Lukes HospitalGeneral hospital5,688FTE
- Mack TrucksAssembly plants, heavy trucks, and buses on chassis of own manufacture2,738
- Allentown City SDSchool district2,535FTE
- Automatic Data ProcessingAutomated data processing services2,143
- Parkland SDSchool district1,505FTE
- St Lukes Allentown HospitalHealthcare1,412
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage1,285
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 421 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 84,148 people in all across the county; Slatington has two of its own. 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Slatington’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 Lehigh County and the Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ metro.
Slatington home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Slatington$341,298
- Pennsylvania$287,078
- United States$366,157
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 Slatington 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.
- Slatington36.94%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Slatington22
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Slatington10
Zip codes with a Slatington address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Slatington — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.