Summit Hill, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $155,974 (+6.0% in a year). Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$509 (+164%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,804 +6%
- $147,170$155,974 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $42,697 +38%
- $113,277$155,974 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.
- Summit Hill$819
- 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 Summit Hill, PA rose 6.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Summit Hill, Carbon County, Pennsylvania
Summit Hill is a borough of 3,120 people in Carbon County. Unemployment in Carbon County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 1.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Carbon 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Summit Hill is a small borough in Carbon County, Pennsylvania, with a population that is on the younger side of middle age. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree here than is typical, and a good share of households live below the poverty line. Homes are modestly priced, and winters are cold and snowy, with a long stretch of freezing days from late fall into early spring. Summers are warm, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing and in the building trades. Across Carbon County, some of the largest workplaces are Boyers Food Market, Blue Mountain Resort and St Lukes Hospital-carbon Campus. The county has lost a few jobs over the past year, and unemployment is lower than a year ago. Many people face a long drive to work, and only a small number work from home.
Things to do. A short drive away is Tuscarora State Park, a protected area, and the Little Schuylkill River and Nesquehoning Creek are close by as well. For a longer outing, Lehigh Gorge State Park is another protected area, and Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom is an amusement park within a longer drive.
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- 1,280households
- 8%of adults have a degree
- 24%below the poverty line
- 38 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What people in Carbon County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Carbon County had 16,376 jobs in 2025, 1.8% fewer 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, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Carbon County
- Blue Mountain ResortAlpine skiing facilities without accommodations651
- Little leaf FarmsVegetable farming, grown under cover450
- St Lukes Hospital-carbon CampusGeneral hospital405FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters378
- Lehighton Area SDSchool district320FTE
- Palmerton Area SDSchool district259FTE
- Jim Thorpe Area SDSchool district238FTE
- Panther Valley SDSchool district183FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 43 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,569 people in all across the county; Summit Hill has none 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
- LightningRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Summit Hill’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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 Carbon County and the Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ metro.
Summit Hill home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Summit Hill$155,974
- 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.
- Summit Hill14
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Summit Hill6
Zip codes with a Summit Hill address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Summit Hill — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.