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The median home value in Old Forge, PA is $219,254 as of 2026-07-31, up 8.1% from a year earlier.
Median Home Value
$219,254
Year-over-Year
+8.1%
Population
8,654
Old Forge ranks #98 of 150 Pennsylvania cities tracked here by median home value, and sits 15.4% below the state's city median of $259,163. It sits in Lackawanna County, where the county-wide median is $232,896.
Median household income in Old Forge is $71,812, so the typical home value is about 3.1× annual household income. This is a simple price-to-income benchmark rather than a monthly payment estimate; it does not account for mortgage rates, down payments, taxes or insurance.
Household income comes from the U.S. Census Bureau's ACS 5-Year Estimates, table B19013 (how the affordability measure works).
Old Forge police recorded a violent crime rate of 139 per 100,000 residents in 2024 — around the middle of the range for reporting cities. Property crime runs at 497 per 100,000.
Reported by the city's own police department to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program (what this covers).
People often call this an average home price, but the figure shown here is Zillow's typical home value (ZHVI), not a simple arithmetic average. In Old Forge, that value is $219,254. That's up 8.1% from a year earlier. It is about 15.4% below the typical Pennsylvania city tracked here.
Homes in Old Forge are cheaper than Lackawanna County as a whole, where the median is $232,896 — a difference of about 5.9%.
Median household income here is $71,812, so the typical home value is about 3.1× annual household income. This ratio is a broad comparison measure, not a mortgage-payment estimate.
Old Forge police reported 139 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, covering a population of about 8,654. Crime rates are one input among many — they vary block to block within a city, and this figure is a citywide average.
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