Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Home to 3 places on the National Register of Historic Places.
Slatington grades C+ overall, ranked 752nd of 1032 in Pennsylvania, with clear strengths and some subjects that lag. Crime is low: it reports less per resident than 80% of U.S. towns and it is more walkable than 94% of U.S. towns. On the other side, CDC estimates put its residents' health behind 85% of the country. History is its standout character grade: an A+, better than 100% of U.S. towns, with 3 places on the National Register. 26% of residents live below the poverty line in Slatington, against 7.6% in Pennsylvania’s towns and 9.6% across U.S. towns. On history, just 4 of Pennsylvania’s 1,749 towns do better.
Where Slatington beats most towns.
Lehigh Canal
Census counts: 1,508 in 1870, 4,283 in 2020. The archive holds 11 old photos and papers going back to 2013 and 3 maps from 1964 on.
3 places on the National Register of Historic Places.
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Pennsylvania), ordered by how far Slatington is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Slatington. Close and well known come first.
13 mi Theme parkDorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom
13 mi Stadium & arenaPPL Center7 mi Ski areaBlue Mountain Resort44 runs · 1,077 ft vertical
22 mi Park & preserveLehigh River
10 mi MuseumAsa Packer Mansion
20 mi State parkHickory Run State ParkDorney 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 · Asa Packer Mansion: Chris18240 (talk), Public domain · Hickory Run State Park: Mtruch, CC BY-SA 3.0
Who provides power, water and the rest in Slatington, 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 Slatington.
Slatington is healthier than towns with similar incomes and is safe by national standards but not by Pennsylvania’s; it also carries more natural-hazard risk than most of Pennsylvania (mostly inland flooding).
Against the 5,653 U.S. towns with household incomes like Slatington’s, it is less healthy than 61%, so its C− isn’t only a matter of income. All 3 graded neighbors score healthier than its C−, from Walnutport (C+) to Lehigh Township (B).
Two figures for adults in Slatington: 17% report frequent physical distress, 20% report frequent mental distress. Slatington: 25% of adults say their health is fair or poor.
| Slatington | Pennsylvania towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 23% | 16% | 14% |
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 17% | 14% | 14% |
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 20% | 16% | 17% |
| Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES) | 25% | 19% | 19% |
| What stands out | Slatington | PA |
|---|---|---|
| More uninsured adults | 9.7% | 5.8% |
| More smokers | 23.2% | 15.8% |
| More adults with COPD | 10.7% | 7.7% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Of its 4 schools, two are listed below, each with the reason. Its public schools are run by Northern Lehigh SD. The largest public high school is Northern Lehigh SHS, with 502 students.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Slatington El SchLargest public elementary schoolGrades 3–6 | Grades 3–6 | 487 | C+ |
| Northern Lehigh SHSLargest public high schoolGrades 9–12 | Grades 9–12 | 502 | B− |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within PA on state tests and graduation
At 8.3 crimes per 1,000 residents a year, it reports less crime than 62% of Pennsylvania’s graded towns. Violent crime is rare: 1 reported in 2025, 0.2 per 1,000 residents.
For Slatington, the violent offense rate is 0.2 per 1,000 residents. The rate of thefts and burglaries for Slatington comes to 6.4 per 1,000 residents.
| Slatington | Pennsylvania towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Violent crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 0.2 per 1,000 residents | 0.7 | 1.6 |
| Property crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 6.4 per 1,000 residents | 5.7 | 9.9 |
FBI crime data, 2025 · crimes reported to police
Slatington has 574 jobs for its 1,967 working residents: even if every job went to a resident, most would still commute out.
Slatington’s income of the median household is $50,000. Just 4% of the town’s working residents have a job in town. The top destinations are Allentown (8%), Upper Macungie Township (7%) and Bethlehem (5%). For half of commuters, work is under 14 miles away.
| Slatington | Pennsylvania towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $50,000 | $81,000 | $80,000 |
| Working residents who work in town | 3.8% | 6.3% | 8% |
| Average trip to work | 27 minutes | 26 minutes | 25 minutes |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 90% of Pennsylvania towns, with expected losses of about $389 per resident a year; that rating is what its C for hazard risk is built on.
The risk rating from FEMA in Slatington is 68 of 100. Expected losses in Slatington break down as 63% from inland flooding and 20% from cold waves. Federal aid has come to Slatington households in 2 declared disasters; the latest was in 2011.
FEMA disaster declarations and aid · FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
July afternoons reach 86°, January nights drop to 19° and about 27 inches of snow falls in a winter.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Typical home values rose 3.9% in the year to September 2026. In Slatington, 59% of households own their home. The town’s typical rent stands at $882 a month.
| Slatington | Pennsylvania towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 59% | 78% | 73% |
| Median rent | $882 a month | $1,116 a month | $1,185 a month |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Slatington has 2 parks and preserves, 3 acres in all.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Victory Park | — | 2 |
| 2. West End Playground | — | 1 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
4 within 15 miles of the center of Slatington
About 2 of every 100 Slatington residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Pennsylvania.
Where Slatington’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
3 places in Slatington on the National Register of Historic Places.
4 notable people were born in Slatington.
Borough in Pennsylvania, US
Slatington is a borough in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, United States, in a geographic region known as the Slate Belt. As of the 2020 census, Slatington had a population of 4,283. Slatington is located northwest of Allentown and Bethlehem. Slatington 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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3 towns share a border with Slatington.
| Town | PA rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Slatington | #752 | C+ | B− | A− | C+ | C− |
| Washington Township | #742 | B− | B− | — | C+ | B− |
| Walnutport | — | — | C+ | — | C+ | C+ |
| Lehigh Township | #419 | B+ | C | A+ | B+ | B |
Walnutport has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Washington Township and Walnutport report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Slatington with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Slatington grades C+ overall, better than 44% of U.S. towns and #752 of 1032 in Pennsylvania. It grades C− for health, A− for safety and C+ for schools. Health is its weak spot, with a C−.
Yes, by national standards. Slatington reports less crime per resident than 80% of U.S. towns, an A− Safety Grade: 1 violent and 28 property crimes in 2025.
That is 4 years of the area's median household income ($84,587 across the Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ metro area). Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades B−.
4 notable people were born here, including Anne Burlak and Charlie Johnson.
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