Community

Welcome to Greater Hazleton... a great place to live, work and play!

Greater Hazleton has an outstanding quality of life, plenty of recreational opportunities, a low crime rate, an inexpensive cost of living, excellent health-care and education systems, solid employment opportunities, an outstanding business climate and even more.

Greater Hazleton has it all, including a great location. In the foothills of the Pocono Mountains of Northeastern Pennsylvania, we're close to numerous major interstate highways that link us with places from New York City to San Francisco, from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, and everything in between. We're only two and a half hours away from New York City, less than that from Philadelphia, and slightly more from Baltimore and Washington, D.C. We like to feel we are in the middle of everywhere.

What's the price of such amazing convenience? Well, you'll be happy to know that the cost of living is one of the most attractive benefits of Northeastern Pennsylvania, where housing, transportation and health-care expenses are not only affordable but often lower than the national average.

CAN DO, Inc., and the Greater Hazleton Chamber of Commerce have collaborated to create a four-page community profile of Greater Hazleton (PDF).

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Demographics

Population
Households
Income and Benefits
Business Taxes

Population by Age and Sex
	Hazleton Area School District		Luzerne County		Hazleton / Wilkes-Barre / Scranton MSA
Total Population	71,716		317,417		553,885
Male	34,373	47.9%	156,743	49.4%	271,811	48.9%
Female	37,343	52.4%	160,674	50.6%	282,074	51.1%
Up to 19 years	18,055	24.2%	70,453	22.4%	124,678	22.9%
20 to 44 years	20,807	29.6%	97,659	30.1%	167,978	29.7%
45 to 64 years	19,533	25.9%	86,441	27.6%	149,767	27.5%
65 years and over	13,321	20.3%	62,864	19.9%	111,462	19.9%
Median age (years)	41.4		42.5		42.4
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2019 American Community Survey

Households
	Hazleton Area School District		Luzerne County		Hazleton / Wilkes-Barre / Scranton MSA
Households by type	Estimate	Percent	Estimate	Percent	Estimate	Percent
Total households	28,762		130,890		230,210
Average household size	2.44	(x)	2.33	(x)	2.32	(x)
Average family size	3.13	(x)	2.93	(x)	2.89	(x)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2019 American Community Survey

Income and Benefits
	Hazleton Area School District	Luzerne County	Hazleton / Wilkes-Barre / Scranton MSA
Per capita income	$25,640	$28,484	$28,480
Median household income	$44,505	$53,972	$54,304
Mean household income	$61,482	$68,764	$70,836
Median family income	$59,127	$68,693	$67,558
Mean family income	$72,500	$81,539	$81,034
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2019 American Community Survey

Pennsylvania Business Taxes
Corporate Net Income Tax- 9.99%	Sales and Use Tax- 6.00%	Personal Income Tax- 3.07%
Download the Pennsylvania Business Taxes chart

Highways

Direct access to Interstates 81 and 80, which interconnect with nearby I-476 (the Northeast Extension of the Pennsylvania Turnpike), I-84 and I-380 and puts your company within a 300-mile radius of 25 percent of the population and total production of the entire nation.

The City of Hazleton operates an intermodal transportation center in downtown Hazleton. This center is the hub of intra-city and regional bus service.