Starrucca, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $282,081 (+4.2% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$828 (+127%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,393 +4%
- $270,687$282,081 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $42,306 +18%
- $239,775$282,081 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.
- Starrucca$1,481
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 21 years.
Typical home values in Starrucca, PA rose 4.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Starrucca, Wayne County, Pennsylvania
Starrucca is a borough of 169 people in Wayne County. Half its households earn more than $70,278 a year and half less, against $62,381 across Wayne County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Starrucca is a very small borough in Wayne County, with fewer residents than most towns would call a village. Household incomes run above the county's, and fewer people live below the poverty line than you might expect in a rural area. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers are mild and warm in July, and precipitation is steady through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, the building trades, and restaurants and hotels. Across Wayne County, some of the largest workplaces are Wayne Memorial Hospital, Wayne Highlands Schools and Walmart. Jobs in the county grew over the past year, and unemployment is lower than it was a year earlier, though the typical commute is long.
Things to do. Water is the main draw nearby. The East Branch Delaware River and the West Branch Delaware River are both a short drive away, as is Starrucca Creek. For a longer outing, Cannonsville Reservoir is a longer drive away.
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- 6%below the poverty line
- 53 mintypical commute
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 29° and lows near 12°; warmest in July, with highs near 77° and lows near 56°. About 69 inches of snow and 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Pleasant Mount West weather station, 10 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; Starrucca 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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Starrucca’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 Wayne County.
Starrucca home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Starrucca$282,081
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Starrucca6
Zip codes with a Starrucca address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Starrucca — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.