Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA

Metropolitan statistical area, CBSA 42540 · 41.32, -75.90

5 findings fired for Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA this run, against a typical home value of $233,948 in September 2026 and covered employment of 252,163 in 2026 Q1.

Jobs, OEWS
255,620
as of May 2025
  • 73rd pct · 103rd of 393 US metro areas · median 105,500

Total employment in the BLS OEWS occupational tables for this metro area. It is an occupational survey total, not the QCEW payroll count below.

Jobs, county rollup
252,163
as of 2026 Q1

An estimate: the sum of the member counties BLS publishes, not BLS's own metro row, whose boundaries follow each year's delineation. The arithmetic is printed below.

Typical home value
$233,948
as of 2026-09
  • 24th pct · 287th of 379 US metro areas · median $305,707

Zillow Home Value Index, metro file, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.

Typical rent
$1,362
as of 2026-09
  • 33rd pct · 253rd of 382 US metro areas · median $1,504

Zillow Observed Rent Index, metro file.

Price-to-rent
14.3years of rent
as of 2026-09
  • 22nd pct · 294th of 379 US metro areas · median 16.9

typical home value / (typical rent × 12); Zillow ZHVI over ZORI, same month.

Home value, 1-yr
2.3%
as of 2026-09
  • 53rd pct · 178th of 379 US metro areas · median 2.0%

Zillow's own twelve-month change on the metro row.

A percentile here is a min-max scaling of average rank: the smallest published value in the cohort is 0 and the largest is 100, and tied values share the average of the ranks they span. It is not the share of entities below the value, so 0 means smallest, not none below. Entities that did not publish the metric are outside the cohort entirely and are counted in neither the rank nor its denominator.

Occupation mix #

currentas of May 2025retrieved 2026-10-19

The 30 largest detailed occupations and all 22 SOC major groups in Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA, from the bundled BLS OEWS release.

Top 30 detailed occupations by employment, Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA, OEWS May 2025.
SOCOccupationJobsMean annual wageLocation quotient
53-7065Stockers and Order Fillers10,250$40,0702.20
31-1120Home Health and Personal Care Aides9,970$31,0601.41
53-7062Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand9,630$43,0301.99
35-3023Fast Food and Counter Workers6,450$27,8701.02
41-2031Retail Salespersons6,330$33,5500.99
11-1021General and Operations Managers6,010$110,3601.04
29-1141Registered Nurses5,400$87,5600.97
53-3032Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers5,210$59,0401.54
41-2011Cashiers5,200$28,5001.02
43-9061Office Clerks, General4,830$43,7201.19
53-7051Industrial Truck and Tractor Operators4,240$49,5903.33
51-2090Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators3,790$41,6501.64
43-4051Customer Service Representatives3,610$43,5500.85
37-2011Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners3,400$36,7400.94
35-3031Waiters and Waitresses3,200$35,1600.86
31-1131Nursing Assistants3,080$42,5701.30
49-9071Maintenance and Repair Workers, General2,750$53,2201.09
43-6014Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive2,670$44,2000.95
43-1011First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers2,500$66,3101.06
29-2061Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses2,270$63,7402.13
53-3033Light Truck Drivers2,200$47,7501.36
35-2014Cooks, Restaurant2,170$33,5500.94
43-5071Shipping, Receiving, and Inventory Clerks2,080$45,0901.55
53-7064Packers and Packagers, Hand2,080$39,6102.26
33-9032Security Guards2,070$40,0800.98
41-4012Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Except Technical and Scientific Products2,040$74,1901.00
25-9045Teaching Assistants, Except Postsecondary1,960$32,2700.84
41-1011First-Line Supervisors of Retail Sales Workers1,860$48,6101.01
25-2031Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education1,850$72,7401.06
43-3031Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks1,840$47,6200.82
All 22 SOC major groups, Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA, OEWS May 2025.
SOCOccupationJobsMean annual wageLocation quotient
53-0000Transportation and Material Moving Occupations39,350$45,9501.75
43-0000Office and Administrative Support Occupations28,870$47,4000.99
51-0000Production Occupations20,870$50,0501.48
35-0000Food Preparation and Serving Related Occupations20,510$32,6700.91
41-0000Sales and Related Occupations19,380$44,0800.88
29-0000Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations18,070$88,9101.12
31-0000Healthcare Support Occupations15,690$35,6901.21
11-0000Management Occupations15,130$114,2900.83
25-0000Educational Instruction and Library Occupations13,180$62,6200.88
13-0000Business and Financial Operations Occupations10,890$77,9500.63
49-0000Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations10,410$60,9401.04
47-0000Construction and Extraction Occupations8,460$63,7900.80
37-0000Building and Grounds Cleaning and Maintenance Occupations6,510$37,7500.87
33-0000Protective Service Occupations6,400$56,9501.03
21-0000Community and Social Service Occupations5,550$53,7101.27
39-0000Personal Care and Service Occupations4,930$36,4600.92
15-0000Computer and Mathematical Occupations3,840$88,7200.44
17-0000Architecture and Engineering Occupations2,730$88,1100.63
27-0000Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations1,900$58,5600.57
23-0000Legal Occupations1,430$93,9000.67
19-0000Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations1,280$82,2500.53
45-0000Farming, Fishing, and Forestry Occupations230$40,2000.32

BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, metropolitan area tables, committed to this repository rather than fetched. A location quotient above 1 means the occupation is more concentrated here than in the United States as a whole; wages are means, not medians, and BLS suppresses a wage where its sample is too thin.

Housing #

currentas of 2026-09retrieved 2026-10-19

The typical home in the Scranton, PA metro was worth $233,948 in September 2026.

25 months to September 2026. Rent: $1,362 in September 2026.

Zillow's metro row was matched to this CBSA BY NAME, not by a shared code: Zillow titles metros short ("Austin, TX") where the Census titles them long. Both series are Zillow's own smoothed indices of the middle third of the market, not sale prices.

Employment, rolled up from member counties #

currentas of 2026 Q1retrieved 2026-10-19

About 252,163 covered jobs across the 3 member counties BLS published.

  • jobs = sum of QCEW third-month employment across the 3 of 3 member counties BLS publishes.
  • 252,163 = 98,622 + 144,145 + 9,396
The 3 counties the place manifest assigns to CBSA 42540.
CountyFIPS
Lackawanna County, PA42069
Luzerne County, PA42079
Wyoming County, PA42131

The place manifest names 3 member counties for this metro, fewer than the 5 a cohort needs before a percentile means anything, so no within-metro position is offered for its counties. The positions above are against the other 392 metropolitan areas, which is a cohort that does not depend on the county pull.

There are no QCEW metro employment totals here, and that is a property of the data rather than an omission: BLS does publish MSA area codes (C####), but lib/economy's QCEW reader handles only county (SSCCC), state (SS000) and national (US000) rows at aggregation levels 74, 54 and 14, and the /api/economy route regex rejects anything else. So this figure is a sum of member counties, labelled an estimate, with every county it could not count named.

National indicator context #

currentretrieved 2026-10-19

None of these series is keyed to this metro area. They are national, gauge, single-state or port series, shown as context for the numbers above.

The national indicator set, filtered by lens only.
IndicatorLatestUnitStatus
Mississippi River at Memphis, stagenot publishedftno data
Mississippi River at St. Louis, stagenot publishedftno data
Ohio River at Louisville, stage17.95ftok
Missouri River at St. Joseph, stagenot publishedftno data
Colorado River below Hoover Dam, flow (Hoover releases)5,170.00ft³/sok
Texas reservoirs, statewide percent full72.20%ok
Laredo truck crossings, monthly258,700.00trucksok
Los Angeles + Long Beach container volume, annual10,513,167.00TEUwatch
Containerships waiting for a berth, all US ports7.00shipsok
Shanghai to Los Angeles container rate7,848.00$ per 40 ft boxwatch
US diesel retail pricenot published$ per gallonno data
WTI crude oil, spot101.91$ per barrelwatch
30-year fixed mortgage rate7.40%watch
Housing starts, annual rate1,275.00thousands of unitsok
Building permits, annual rate1,403.00thousands of unitsok
Case-Shiller US home price index337.31index, Jan 2000 = 100ok
Unemployment rate4.20%ok
US goods and services trade balance, monthly-105,572.00$ millionsok
Retail sales excluding food services, monthly652,115.00$ millionsok

lib/indicators has no geographic selection: every registry entry is a United States, gauge, Texas, port, crossing or world series, and no entry is metro-keyed. Reading these as this metro's own readings would be wrong.

What changed #

currentretrieved 2026-10-19

Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA: 5 findings, 5 noted

  1. noteScranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA's typical asking rent rose 0.5% from $1,354 in August 2026 to $1,362 in September 2026, on Zillow ZORI.

    Period 2026-09.
    Show the arithmetic
    • +0.5% = (1361.6600424464596 - 1354.282239050042) / 1354.282239050042 × 100
    • 1361.6600424464596 = Zillow ZORI, 2026-09
    • 1354.282239050042 = Zillow ZORI, 2026-08

  2. noteScranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA's typical home value rose 0.3% from $233,243 in August 2026 to $233,948 in September 2026, on Zillow ZHVI.

    Period 2026-09.
    Show the arithmetic
    • +0.3% = (233947.52693764187 - 233243.11820472116) / 233243.11820472116 × 100
    • 233947.52693764187 = Zillow ZHVI, 2026-09
    • 233243.11820472116 = Zillow ZHVI, 2026-08

  3. noteThe next Unemployment rate (BLS Employment Situation, monthly) covering Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA is due between 2026-10-30 and 2026-11-13, estimated from the publisher's past release pattern.

    Show the arithmetic
    • window = 2026-10-30 to 2026-11-13, estimated from the publisher's past release pattern

    estimated from the publisher's past release pattern; not an announced date

  4. noteThe next Zillow ZHVI typical home value (monthly) covering Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA is due between 2026-11-14 and 2026-11-21, estimated from the publisher's past release pattern.

    Show the arithmetic
    • window = 2026-11-14 to 2026-11-21, estimated from the publisher's past release pattern

    estimated from the publisher's past release pattern; not an announced date

  5. noteThe next Zillow ZORI typical rent (monthly) covering Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA is due between 2026-11-14 and 2026-11-21, estimated from the publisher's past release pattern.

    Show the arithmetic
    • window = 2026-11-14 to 2026-11-21, estimated from the publisher's past release pattern

    estimated from the publisher's past release pattern; not an announced date

The full Scranton, PA brief, with the arithmetic behind every sentence.

Metro briefs are thinner by construction: with no QCEW metro path, their findings come from Zillow's metro home value and rent rows, the county rollup, and nearby crossings and ports.

Sources #

  • publishedOccupational Employment and Wage StatisticsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statisticsopen the source
    MSA 42540, all occupations · period May 2025 · retrieved 2026-10-19
  • estimateQuarterly Census of Employment and WagesU.S. Bureau of Labor Statisticsopen the source
    · retrieved 2026-10-19 · jobs = sum of QCEW third-month employment across the 3 of 3 member counties BLS publishes. 252,163 = 98,622 + 144,145 + 9,396
  • publishedZillow Home Value Index (ZHVI)Zillow Researchopen the source
    Metro_zhvi_uc_sfrcondo_tier_0.33_0.67_sm_sa_month.csv · period 2026-09 · retrieved 2026-10-19
  • publishedZillow Observed Rent Index (ZORI)Zillow Researchopen the source
    Metro_zori_uc_sfrcondomfr_sm_month.csv · period 2026-09 · retrieved 2026-10-19
  • estimateZillow Home Value Index (ZHVI)Zillow Researchopen the source
    · retrieved 2026-10-19 · typical home value / (typical rent × 12); Zillow ZHVI over ZORI, same month
  • estimateZillow Home Value Index (ZHVI)Zillow Researchopen the source
    · retrieved 2026-10-19 · month-over-month percent change = (newest month − previous month) / |previous month| × 100, from Zillow's own published month columns
  • estimateZillow Observed Rent Index (ZORI)Zillow Researchopen the source
    · retrieved 2026-10-19 · month-over-month percent change = (newest month − previous month) / |previous month| × 100, from Zillow's own published month columns

Citations

  • U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics. series MSA 42540, all occupations. period May 2025. https://www.bls.gov/oes/tables.htm. accessed 2026-10-19.
  • U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages. https://www.bls.gov/cew/. accessed 2026-10-19. estimate computed by Embedding Atlas: jobs = sum of QCEW third-month employment across the 3 of 3 member counties BLS publishes. 252,163 = 98,622 + 144,145 + 9,396.
  • Zillow Research. Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI). series Metro_zhvi_uc_sfrcondo_tier_0.33_0.67_sm_sa_month.csv. period 2026-09. https://files.zillowstatic.com/research/public_csvs/zhvi/Metro_zhvi_uc_sfrcondo_tier_0.33_0.67_sm_sa_month.csv. accessed 2026-10-19.
  • Zillow Research. Zillow Observed Rent Index (ZORI). series Metro_zori_uc_sfrcondomfr_sm_month.csv. period 2026-09. https://files.zillowstatic.com/research/public_csvs/zori/Metro_zori_uc_sfrcondomfr_sm_month.csv. accessed 2026-10-19.
  • Zillow Research. Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI). https://www.zillow.com/research/data/. accessed 2026-10-19. estimate computed by Embedding Atlas: typical home value / (typical rent × 12); Zillow ZHVI over ZORI, same month.
  • Zillow Research. Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI). https://www.zillow.com/research/data/. accessed 2026-10-19. estimate computed by Embedding Atlas: month-over-month percent change = (newest month − previous month) / |previous month| × 100, from Zillow's own published month columns.
  • Zillow Research. Zillow Observed Rent Index (ZORI). https://www.zillow.com/research/data/. accessed 2026-10-19. estimate computed by Embedding Atlas: month-over-month percent change = (newest month − previous month) / |previous month| × 100, from Zillow's own published month columns.

What these numbers are not

  • There is no metro market report: MarketReport describes a county or a state, and BLS QCEW's own metro rows follow each year's delineation, so they are not used here. The metro page shows Zillow's own metro rows and a county-rollup employment estimate with its arithmetic instead.
  • Zillow's metro row was matched to this CBSA BY NAME (Zillow titles metros short, "Austin, TX", where the Census titles them long), not by a shared code. RegionID 395075.
  • Metro employment is an ESTIMATE: the sum of the member counties BLS did publish, not BLS QCEW's own metro row, whose boundaries follow each year's delineation. Withheld counties are named and excluded, never zeroed.
  • The indicator block is the NATIONAL set, filtered only by lens. None of these series is keyed to this place: they are United States, gauge, single-state or port series and they are shown as context, not as this place's own readings.

Page assembled 2026-10-19T16:55:59.800Z. Place identity tables pulled 2026-10-01.