Wind Gap, Pennsylvania.
Typical home $376,499 (+4.1% in a year). Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,133 (+134%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,745 +4%
- $361,753$376,499 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $92,811 +33%
- $283,687$376,499 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.
- Wind Gap$1,976
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Wind Gap, PA rose 4.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Wind Gap, Northampton County, Pennsylvania
Wind Gap is a borough of 2,820 people in Northampton County. 50% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 50% are rented. Unemployment in Northampton County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 1.5% more 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Wind Gap is a small borough in Northampton County, and its residents are older than in many American towns. About as many homes are rented as are lived in by their owners, and a typical home here is worth more than in much of the country. Incomes are modest next to the county's, and a smaller share of adults hold a four-year degree than you might expect. Winters are cold, with January highs near freezing and lows well below it, and a fair amount of snow falls each year. Summers are warm, with July the warmest month, and rain and melted snow come steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, shops and professional and business services. Many make a commute of a fairly typical length, and a good number work from home. Across Northampton County, some of the largest workplaces are Lehigh University, Bethlehem Area Schools and FedEx. Unemployment in the county is lower than a year ago, and the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Cherry Valley National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area, and the Weona Park Carousel, a tourist attraction, are both in or beside town. A short drive away are the Jacobsburg Environmental Education Center, another protected area, and the Lee and Virginia Graver Arboretum, a botanical garden. For a longer outing, Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom is an amusement park a longer drive away.
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- 1,511households
- 25%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 16%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Northampton County had 122,795 jobs in 2025, 1.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 36° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 60°. About 23 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Belvidere Brg weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Northampton County
- Lehigh UniversityUniversity or college1,997
- Bethlehem Area SDSchool district1,953FTE
- FedExCourier and express delivery services1,720
- St Luke Hospital Anderson CampusGeneral hospital1,665FTE
- Victaulic - ForksDuctile iron foundries1,567
- Northampton County Area Community CollegeTwo-year college1,534
- WalmartGeneral warehousing and storage1,215
- UPSCouriers and express delivery services1,190
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 338 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 48,225 people in all across the county; Wind Gap has two of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively 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 Wind Gap’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Northampton County and the Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ metro.
Wind Gap home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Wind Gap$376,499
- 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.
- Wind Gap12
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Wind Gap6
Zip codes with a Wind Gap address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Wind Gap — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.