Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $249,610 (+2.1% in a year). Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$662 (+102%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,070 +2%
- $244,540$249,610 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $35,113 +16%
- $214,498$249,610 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.
- Tunkhannock$1,310
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 23 years.
Typical home values in Tunkhannock, PA rose 2.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Tunkhannock, Wyoming County, Pennsylvania
Tunkhannock is a borough of 1,767 people in Wyoming County. Half its households earn more than $57,546 a year and half less, against $72,460 across Wyoming County; 22% of its people live below the poverty line. 57% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 43% are rented. Unemployment in Wyoming County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Tunkhannock is a small borough in Wyoming County, with a population small enough that neighbors tend to know one another. Household incomes here run below the county's, and more people live below the poverty line than you might expect in a place this size. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and a minority of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January highs only a little above freezing and plenty of snow, while July brings warm summer days, and precipitation is steady through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, restaurants and hotels, and manufacturing. Across Wyoming County, some of the largest workplaces are Procter and Gamble Mehoopany, which makes paper towels in paper mills, DHL Supply Chain, and Tunkhannock Area Schools. Unemployment in the county is a little lower than a year earlier, and the county has added a small number of jobs. Most people have a short commute, and few work from home.
Things to do. Water is the main draw nearby. Bowman Creek and Tunkhannock Creek run in or beside town, and Moneypenny Creek is a short drive away. For a longer outing, the Lackawanna River is a longer drive away.
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- 745households
- 29%of adults have a degree
- 22%below the poverty line
- 19 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Wyoming County had 9,502 jobs in 2025, 0.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 36° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 63°. About 45 inches of snow and 39 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Wilkes-barre International Airport weather station, 18 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Wyoming County
- Procter and Gamble MehoopanyPaper towels made in paper mills1,900
- DHL Supply ChainMotor freight transportation and warehousing517
- WilliamsOil and gas field services on a contract basis324
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters313
- Tunkhannock Area SDSchool district272FTE
- Lackawanna Trail SDSchool district144FTE
- Premier Select SiresAnimal semen banks142
- Industrial Construction Services and DesignMillwrights115
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 16 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,870 people in all across the county; Tunkhannock has two of its own. School districts come 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
- Inland floodingVery high
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively 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 Tunkhannock’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 Wyoming County and the Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA metro.
Tunkhannock home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Tunkhannock$249,610
- Pennsylvania$287,078
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Tunkhannock 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.
- Tunkhannock30.15%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Tunkhannock25
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Tunkhannock8
Zip codes with a Tunkhannock address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Tunkhannock — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.