Wapwallopen, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $247,268 (+0.2% in a year). Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — $18 (-1%) since Dec 2023.
- 1 year
- Up $604 +0%
- $246,664$247,268 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.
- Wapwallopen$1,298
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Wapwallopen, PA rose 0.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Wapwallopen, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania
The Census does not count Wapwallopen on its own, so the figures here are Luzerne County's. Half the county's households earn more than $63,691 a year and half less; 15% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 68% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 32% 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 people in Luzerne County work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Wapwallopen sits in Luzerne County in northeastern Pennsylvania, where most homes are lived in by their owners and renters are less common than across the country. Residents tend to be older than the national average, and household incomes run below the national typical. Winters are colder than in most of the country, and snow and rain both come in good measure, while summers are warm.
Work. Across Luzerne County, many people work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing, and in professional and business services. Unemployment has eased over the past year, and the number of jobs has held nearly steady, dipping only slightly. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than the national average.
Things to do. Lily Lake, a reservoir a short drive away, and Nescopeck State Park, a protected area also a short drive away, are both close to town. For a longer outing, Pocono Raceway, a race track a longer drive away, is among the better known places in the area.
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- 135,055households
- 42.0median age
- 25%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What people in Luzerne County 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 33° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 58°. About 46 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Benton Northeast weather station, 17 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. 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.
Wapwallopen home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Wapwallopen$247,268
- 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Wapwallopen address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Wapwallopen — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.