Sugarloaf, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $321,318 (+2.8% in a year). Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$164 (+11%) since Dec 2023.
- 1 year
- Up $8,890 +3%
- $312,428$321,318 since Sep 2025
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.
- Sugarloaf$1,687
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Sugarloaf, PA rose 2.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Sugarloaf, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania
Sugarloaf is a township of 3,846 people in Luzerne County. Half its households earn more than $102,955 a year and half less, against $63,691 across Luzerne County; 4% of its people live below the poverty line. 83% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 17% are rented. 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Sugarloaf is a township in Luzerne County where most homes are lived in by their owners, and incomes run well above the county's. Few households fall below the poverty line, and a good share of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January highs near freezing, and summers are warm, with July the warmest month. A fair amount of snow falls each year, and the town sees a good deal of rain and melted snow overall.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in manufacturing, the building trades, and transport, warehouses and utilities. Across Luzerne County, the largest workplaces include Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center, Amazon and Hazleton Area Schools. Unemployment in the county is lower than it was a year ago, though the number of jobs there has slipped slightly. Some residents work from home, and a typical commute is a moderate one.
Things to do. Kester Creek, a stream in or beside town, is the closest water. A short drive away, Catawissa Creek and Black Creek offer more streams to explore. For a longer outing, Ricketts Glen State Park is a protected area a longer drive away, as is Nescopeck State Park.
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- 1,378households
- 32%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 9%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 32° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 61°. About 48 inches of snow and 54 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mahanoy City North 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; Sugarloaf 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 weatherVery high
- LightningRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Luzerne County, 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 Luzerne County and the Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA metro.
Sugarloaf home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Sugarloaf$321,318
- Pennsylvania$287,078
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Sugarloaf 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.
- Sugarloaf38.57%
- United States26.36%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Sugarloaf20
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Sugarloaf address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Sugarloaf — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.