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Billion Photos \/\/ ShutterstockWhat salary do I need to afford a house in Allentown in 2026?<\/p>\n Billion Photos \/\/ ShutterstockWhat salary do I need to afford a house in Allentown in 2026?<\/p>\n
The cost of living has grown to historic levels<\/a> since the pandemic, as home prices and the cost of everyday goods have far outpaced<\/a> wages. A large portion of this increase has come from housing. The national median sale price hit a record in 2022 and has continued to set new monthly highs nearly every month since, pricing out<\/a> buyers and sidelining sellers.<\/p>\n Thankfully, Redfin economists predict<\/a> that affordability will begin to improve this year thanks to rising wages and slower price growth.<\/p>\n So, how much money do you need to make to afford a house in Allentown, PA<\/a>? Redfin Real Estate<\/a> looked at the city’s median income and median sale price to determine its overall housing affordability. All data represents the monthly average for January 2026.<\/p>\n Housing affordability: Allentown, PA<\/p>\n Income needed to afford a home: $89,868Median household income: $92,689Share of income required to afford monthly housing payments: 29.1%Share of listings affordable for median earners: 50.0%<\/p>\n Housing affordability: National average<\/p>\n Income needed to afford a home: $100,925Median household income: $87,935Share of income required to afford monthly housing payments: 34.4%Share of listings affordable for median earners: 44.0%<\/p>\n This story<\/a> was produced by Redfin<\/a> and reviewed and distributed by Stacker<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Billion Photos \/\/ ShutterstockWhat salary do I need to afford a house in Allentown in 2026? The cost…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127767,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[2313,119,153,155,154,60,52,59511,59509,64,61,2265,59510,2917,23476,65,63,1113,7175],"class_list":{"0":"post-127766","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bethlehem","8":"tag-affordable-housing","9":"tag-allentown","10":"tag-bethlehem","11":"tag-bethlehem-headlines","12":"tag-bethlehem-news","13":"tag-business","14":"tag-cost-of-living","15":"tag-disposable-household-and-per-capita-income","16":"tag-economic-problems","17":"tag-economics","18":"tag-economy","19":"tag-finance","20":"tag-household-income-in-the-united-states","21":"tag-income","22":"tag-price","23":"tag-salary","24":"tag-social-issues","25":"tag-thestacker","26":"tag-wealth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}