Sugar Notch, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $181,305 (+2.8% in a year). Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$492 (+107%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,933 +3%
- $176,371$181,305 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $29,925 +20%
- $151,380$181,305 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.
- Sugar Notch$952
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 19 years.
Typical home values in Sugar Notch, PA rose 2.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Sugar Notch, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania
Sugar Notch is a borough of 1,001 people in Luzerne County. Unemployment in Luzerne County was 5.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then finance and property.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Sugar Notch is a small borough in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, with a close-knit population. A typical home here costs well under what many American buyers expect to pay, and a four-year degree is held by fewer adults than across the country as a whole. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and temperatures that stay near or below freezing, while July is pleasantly warm. Rain and melted snow add up to a good deal over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by banks, insurance and property, manufacturing, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Luzerne County, the biggest workplaces include Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center, Amazon and Hazleton Area Schools. Job numbers across the county have barely changed in the past year, and unemployment there has eased a little since last summer. The typical commute is a fairly short drive, and a modest share of people work from home.
Things to do. Water runs through the area, and Nanticoke Creek is in or beside town, so a stream is never far away. Toby Creek is a short drive away, and for a longer outing, Pocono Raceway is a race track a longer drive from town.
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- 408households
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 24 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Luzerne County had 145,109 jobs in 2025, 0.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 31° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 79° and lows near 58°. About 49 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Francis East Walter Dam weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Luzerne County
- Geisinger Wyoming Valley MED CTRGeneral hospital2,715FTE
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage2,610
- NBC Pittston MerchantsBonded warehousing, general merchandise1,456
- Hazleton Area SDSchool district1,353FTE
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs1,315
- ChewyGeneral warehousing and storage1,134
- ChewyGeneral warehousing and storage1,122
- Benco DentalDental equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers1,089
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 338 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 52,411 people in all across the county; Sugar Notch has one 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
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Sugar Notch’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 Luzerne County and the Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA metro.
Sugar Notch home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Sugar Notch$181,305
- 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.
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Zip codes with a Sugar Notch address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Sugar Notch — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.