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The median home value in Scranton, PA is $194,124 as of 2026-07-31, down 2.57% from a year earlier.
Median Home Value
$194,124
Year-over-Year
-2.57%
Population
75,683
Scranton ranks #116 of 150 Pennsylvania cities tracked here by median home value, and sits 25.1% 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 Scranton is $50,739, so the typical home value is about 3.8× 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).
Scranton police recorded a violent crime rate of 281 per 100,000 residents in 2024 — around the middle of the range for reporting cities. Property crime runs at 1,345 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 Scranton, that value is $194,124. That's down 2.57% from a year earlier. It is about 25.1% below the typical Pennsylvania city tracked here.
Homes in Scranton are cheaper than Lackawanna County as a whole, where the median is $232,896 — a difference of about 16.6%.
Median household income here is $50,739, so the typical home value is about 3.8× annual household income. This ratio is a broad comparison measure, not a mortgage-payment estimate.
Scranton police reported 281 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, covering a population of about 75,683. 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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