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Median Home Price in Old Forge, PA

The median home value in Old Forge, PA is $228,987, up 8.96% from a year earlier.

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City housing-data period: September 2026. City source retrieval/check time (UTC) is recorded in the feed's updated field when available, not in the housing-data period.

Checked daily for new monthly Zillow releases, not new daily prices. Income and crime data are updated separately, not by the daily housing-data check. Unavailable means observation dates are missing or invalid.

Median Home Value

$228,987

Year-over-Year

+8.96%

Population

8,654

Home value history

The typical home value increased by 4.1%, from $220,018 in May 2026 to $228,987 in Sep 2026.

Monthly Zillow Home Value Index snapshots retained by HomePriceMap. A short history is shown now and grows automatically as each new monthly release arrives.

Old Forge, PA monthly home value history
Month	Typical home value	Year-over-year change
May 2026	$220,018	+7.4%
Jun 2026	$237,157	+7.4%
Jul 2026	$219,254	+8.1%
Aug 2026	$232,038	+8.7%
Sep 2026	$228,987	+9.0%

Old Forge ranks #87 of 145 Pennsylvania cities tracked here by median home value, and sits 12.3% below the state's city median of $261,059. It sits in Lackawanna County, where the county-wide median is $242,972.

Crime in Old Forge

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).

Common questions about Old Forge

What is the average home price in Old Forge, PA?

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 $228,987. That's up 8.96% from a year earlier. It is about 12.3% below the typical Pennsylvania city tracked here.

Is Old Forge expensive compared to the surrounding area?

Homes in Old Forge are cheaper than Lackawanna County as a whole, where the median is $242,972 — a difference of about 5.8%.

Is Old Forge a safe place to live?

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.