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Freemansburg is a solid, middle-of-the-road choice. It grades C overall, ranked 905th of 1032 in Pennsylvania, with no subject far below average. Its best mark is incomes: the median household earns $89K. Expect to pay for it: the typical home is worth about $293K, 3.5 years of the Allentown metro’s $85K median household income. Freemansburg’s trail density is 3.7 miles per square mile, against 0.4 in Pennsylvania’s towns and 0.4 across U.S. towns. On civic life, just 16 of Pennsylvania’s 1,717 towns do worse.
Where Freemansburg beats most towns.
Where Freemansburg’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Pennsylvania), ordered by how far Freemansburg is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Census counts: 649 in 1860, 2,875 in 2020. The archive holds 12 old photos and papers going back to 1968 and 6 maps from 1894 on.
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Freemansburg. Close and well known come first.
Big draw40 mi MuseumLynnewood Hall
11 mi Theme parkDorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom
7 mi Stadium & arenaPPL Center
8 mi Park & preserveLehigh River
39 mi LakeLake Musconetcong
38 mi Park & preserveDuke FarmsLynnewood Hall: Shuvaev, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom: Coasterman1234 at en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 · PPL Center: Hunter Kahn, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Lehigh River: The original uploader was Malepheasant at English Wikipedia., CC BY-SA 2.0 · Lake Musconetcong: Zeete, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Duke Farms: Ekem, CC BY-SA 3.0
Who provides power, water and the rest in Freemansburg, and how to reach them.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Nov 18, 2024.
Ordered by what stands out in Freemansburg.
Freemansburg sends most of its workers to Bethlehem and beyond and has home values climbing faster than Pennsylvania’s, but it carries more natural-hazard risk than most of Pennsylvania (mostly inland flooding).
2.6 miles of trail in 2 parks and preserves.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Freemansburg Municipal Park | 0.5 mi | 10 |
| 2. Freeman's Island | — | 2 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Its public schools are run by Bethlehem Area SD. Its one school is below.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Freemansburg El SchLargest public elementary schoolGrades K–5 | Grades K–5 | 328 | C− |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within PA on state tests and graduation
Freemansburg has 339 jobs for its 1,427 working residents: even if every job went to a resident, most would still commute out. The average commute takes 19.8 minutes, against 26.3 across Pennsylvania.
Most working residents leave Freemansburg for work: only 2% work in town. At 20 minutes, Freemansburg’s average trip to work is where Pennsylvania’s towns sit at 26 minutes and U.S. towns at 25 minutes. Since 2013, Freemansburg has added 86 jobs, to 339 in 2023.
| Freemansburg | Pennsylvania towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 20 minutes | 26 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Working residents who work in town | 1.5% | 6.3% | 8% |
| Below the poverty line | 10% | 7.6% | 9.6% |
| Median household income | $89,000 | $81,000 | $80,000 |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 91% of Pennsylvania towns, with expected losses of about $247 per resident a year; that rating is what its C− for hazard risk is built on.
The FEMA risk score in Freemansburg is 70 of 100. Since 1979, 40 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Freemansburg.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Freemansburg has chilly, snowy winters and warm summers, with plenty of rain. July afternoons reach 86°, January nights drop to 20° and about 33 inches of snow falls in a winter.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Freemansburg's reported crime rate is well below Pennsylvania's. Freemansburg’s property crime rate is 1.3 per 1,000 residents. Most reported incidents are property crimes, mainly thefts.
| Freemansburg | Pennsylvania towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Property crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 1.3 per 1,000 residents | 5.7 | 9.9 |
| Violent crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 0 per 1,000 residents | 0.7 | 1.6 |
FBI crime data, 2025 · crimes reported to police
Freemansburg beats the Pennsylvania average on 6 of 26 CDC measures and trails it on 2. 21% of Freemansburg adults binge drink.
| Freemansburg | Pennsylvania towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 21% | 18% | 16% |
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 75% | 79% | 79% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 30% | 34% | 35% |
| No health insurance, 18–64 (CDC PLACES) | 11% | 6.9% | 8.1% |
| What stands out | Freemansburg | PA |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer older adults who have lost all their teeth | 9.4% | 14.5% |
| Fewer adults who have had cancer | 6.4% | 8.8% |
| More uninsured adults | 11.1% | 5.8% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Home values rose 45% in five years, to about $293K, against 23% across Pennsylvania.
17% of renter households spend 30% or more of their income on rent in Freemansburg. Typical home values rose 5.4% in the year to September 2026. 56% of households own their home in Freemansburg.
| Freemansburg | Pennsylvania towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Renters paying 30%+ of income on rent | 17% | 44% | 48% |
| Median rent | $2,148 a month | $1,114 a month | $1,185 a month |
| Households that own their home | 56% | 78% | 73% |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
9 within 15 miles of the center of Freemansburg
About 5 of every 100 Freemansburg residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Pennsylvania.
Borough in Pennsylvania, US
Freemansburg is a borough in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 2,875 as of the 2020 census. The Lehigh River, a 109-mile-long (175 km) tributary of the Delaware River, flows through Freemansburg. Freemansburg is part of the Lehigh Valley metropolitan area, which had a population of 861,899 and was the 68th-most populous metropolitan area in the U.S. as of the 2020 census.
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4 towns share a border with Freemansburg.
| Town | PA rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Freemansburg | #905 | C | C | — | C | B |
| Bethlehem Township | #576 | B | D | B+ | C | A− |
| Middletown | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Bethlehem | #942 | C− | C− | C+ | C | C+ |
| Lower Saucon Township | #321 | A− | C− | A− | A | B |
Freemansburg reports no FBI crime data of its own. Middletown isn’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Freemansburg with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Freemansburg grades C overall, better than 27% of U.S. towns and #905 of 1032 in Pennsylvania. It grades B for health and C for schools. Hazard risk is its weak spot, with a C−.
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