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A market with no active rental pool to price against. The sale-side figures below are the whole picture.
What would change this read: the median listing price is +11.7% YoY. inventory, −25.3% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is up 11.7% YoY while the median home got up 10.5% bigger, so value per square foot is up 10.8%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 18508 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 45.6% of this ZIP's 4,683 occupied households, on a median household income of $50K.
| Measure | ZIP 18508 | Lackawanna County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $50K | $66K | -$16K |
| Below Poverty Level | 23.2% | 14.4% | +8.8% |
| Median Age | 40.10 | 41.90 | -1.80 |
| Total Population | 11,565 | 216,146 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.37 | 2.35 | +0.02 |
| Owner-Occupied | 54.4% | 65.4% | -11.0% |
| Worked From Home | 11.2% | 10.0% | +1.2% |
| Mean Commute | 17.50 | 21.10 | -3.60 |
Higher or lower is not itself good or bad — it describes the neighborhood, not the investment.
ZIP-level figures come from ZIP Code Tabulation Areas, which approximate but do not exactly match USPS ZIP codes. A missing value is suppressed or unavailable at this sample size, not zero. Estimates for 2019–2020 use the 2010 ZCTA boundaries and 2021–2024 the 2020 ones, so a step between those two years may be a boundary change rather than real movement.
County population is up 0.1% to 216,146: residents under 18 are down 0.2% and those 65 and over are up 1.6%.
County median household income is $66K, 14.4% of residents are below the poverty level, 10.0% work from home.