PA city among most \u2018desirable\u2019 under $300K for homebuyers in US, report says<\/a><\/p>\nHere are key takeaways:<\/p>\n
Realtor.com selected Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre for its \u201cgrowing health care and education sector,\u201d outdoor amenities and proximity to Philadelphia and New York. Commonwealth Health is based in Wilkes-Barre, and two major health care providers, Geisinger and Jefferson, are expanding in the area.The site looked for sub-$300,000 metros with \u201ca satisfying quality of life,\u201d city conveniences and home prices \u201caligned with local incomes.\u201d Realtor.com used its own data to make the determinations.The median listing price in Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre was $259,950 in February. State College, by contrast, was at $462,470, above the national median of $403,450.Just under 24% of homeowners in the Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre metro \u2014 which includes Lackawanna, Luzerne and Wyoming counties \u2014 are burdened by housing costs, meaning they spend over 30% of their income on housing, according to Census Bureau data released in January. In the State College metro area, which is coterminous with Centre County, 20.7% of homeowners are burdened by housing costs.Pennsylvania has 22 metro areas with a sub-$300,000 median listing price, including Pittsburgh ($238,450) and Lock Haven ($222,500).<\/p>\n
The summary points above were compiled with the help of AI tools and edited by journalists. The full story in the link at top was reported, written and edited entirely by journalists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man walks his dog in downtown Scranton, Pennsylvania on July 3, 2024. ANGELA WEISS AFP via Getty…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[62088,2595,539,178,180,179,13189],"class_list":["post-141692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-best-cities","tag-homes","tag-pa","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-state-college"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141692","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=141692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Scranton1.JPG\" "\\"A")
<\/p>\n