Thompson, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $257,425 (+7.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$218 (+19%) since Jan 2024.
- 1 year
- Up $17,071 +7%
- $240,354$257,425 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.
- Thompson$1,351
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Thompson, PA rose 7.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Thompson, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania
Thompson is a borough of 254 people in Susquehanna County. Half its households earn more than $58,393 a year and half less, against $68,487 across Susquehanna County. Unemployment in Susquehanna County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 4.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in construction, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Thompson is a very small borough in Susquehanna County, with few residents and a quiet, rural feel. Incomes here run below the county's, and the typical home is valued well above what the household income alone might suggest. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and the drive to work is a long one. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers are mild, with July the warmest. Rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in the building trades, in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, and in banks, insurance and property. Across Susquehanna County, the largest workplaces include Montrose Area Schools, Blue Ridge Schools and Endless Mountains Health Systems, a critical access hospital. Unemployment across the county has eased compared with a year earlier, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. The nearest outdoor spots are the water close by. Starrucca Creek is a river a short drive away, and Page Lake is a lake a short drive away. Rock Creek, also a river, is a short drive away too. For a longer trip, the East Branch Delaware River is a longer drive away.
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- 9%of adults have a degree
- 39 mintypical commute
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Susquehanna County had 8,584 jobs in 2025, 4.1% fewer 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, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Susquehanna County
- Montrose Area SDSchool district212FTE
- Blue Ridge SDSchool district171FTE
- Endless Mountains Health SystemsCritical access hospital167FTE
- Priority Healthcare GroupNursing homes165
- Elk Lake SDSchool district163FTE
- Mountain View SDSchool district157FTE
- Forest City Regional SDSchool district129FTE
- Barnes-kasson County HospitalCritical access hospital125FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 14 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 697 people in all across the county; Thompson has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Thompson’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 Susquehanna County.
Thompson home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Thompson$257,425
- 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.
- Thompson12
Zip codes with a Thompson address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Thompson — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.