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Housing in Beaver Meadows

A typical Beaver Meadows home is worth about $184,000

Up 3.5% in a year, 37% below the Pennsylvania typical home.

Typical home value
$184K
▲ 3.5% in a year · PA $290K
Zillow
Median sale price
$210K
April 2026 · Redfin
Homes sold
1
in April · 2 for sale
2-bedroom rent
$1,450
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$1,305
PA $3,311

Only 1 sale in April 2026: in a market this size, monthly medians swing a lot, so the typical value is the steadier guide.

What kind of housing town is Beaver Meadows?

Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.

★ What stands out · Affordability

A typical home costs 3.5 years of income

About the same as across Pennsylvania. Try your own numbers below.

You could afford about
$204,000
Typical Beaver Meadows home $184K

That covers a typical Beaver Meadows home, with $20K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$1,110
Loan $910Tax $150Insurance $50

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,450 a month here, $340 more than owning.

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Beaver Meadows’s typical property tax (0.98% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.

The homes

59% of Beaver Meadows households own their home

Half of Beaver Meadows’s homes were built before 1938.

Owners and renters
Own 59%Rent 41%

Pennsylvania: 69% own.

1938
typical home built · PA 1965
$1,305
median property tax bill · PA $3,311
0.98%
of a home’s value, a year in tax · PA 1.30%
5%
of homes are seasonal or vacation homes

U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error.

Price trend

Up 44.4% in five years

Faster than Pennsylvania (22.3%).

Beaver MeadowsPennsylvania
$50K$100K$150K$200K$250K$300K20182020202220242026
Show as a table
JanuaryBeaver MeadowsPennsylvania
2017$71,000$173,000
2018$81,000$181,000
2019$92,000$188,000
2020$97,000$198,000
2021$110,000$219,000
2022$132,000$240,000
2023$156,000$257,000
2024$164,000$268,000
2025$175,000$280,000
2026$180,000$287,000
August 2026$184,000$290,000
Then & now

A typical Beaver Meadows home worth $68K in September 2016 is worth about $184K today.

+$116K
+3.5%
past year
+44.4%
past 5 years
+169.9%
since 2016

Zillow Home Value Index: the typical value of all homes (middle third), smoothed and seasonally adjusted, through August 2026.

Renting

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,450

Renters already here pay a median of $1,238, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$1,000
1 bedroom$1,190
2 bedrooms$1,450
3 bedrooms$1,860
4 bedrooms$1,970
41%
of households rent · PA 31%
123
renter households
$1,238
median rent paid today · Census

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA HUD Metro FMR Area): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.

New construction

No new homes permitted in 2025

No permits for new homes were issued in Beaver Meadows in 2025 or in any year since 2000.

Single-family
01 200020052010201520202025
0
new homes permitted in 2025
0
2026 so far (Jan–Aug)
0
homes in the past 10 years
Homes vs. people, 2010–2020
Residents+28
New homes+0

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses, Beaver Meadows gained 28 residents with no new homes permitted, so the growth came from existing homes. Across Pennsylvania: 1.4 new residents per new home.

Every year as a table
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Beaver Meadows's permit office didn't report to the Census in 2025, so the 2025 figures are Census estimates.

Homes authorized by building permits, counted in the year the permit was issued. U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey.

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Home values: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), Zillow Research, August 2026. Sales, days on market and supply: Redfin Data Center, April 2026. Income, ownership, taxes and rent: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey. New homes: U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey. Fair Market Rents: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Listings link to their publishers. The calculator is an estimate, not a loan offer.

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