Scranton, PA housing supply, ownership, and rent

The published evidence provides the starting point: Scranton, PA's current ACS housing baseline includes 35,512 total housing units, 30,247 occupied units, and 5,265 vacant units. Those counts can help a borrower establish the scale of the measured housing base before comparing tenure, rent, current listings, property condition, and financing. The figures describe stock across the survey period; they do not say that 5,265 homes were listed for sale or available to rent at one moment. For borrower planning, reading 35,512 total units with 30,247 occupied and 5,265 vacant units keeps the release internally grounded while leaving live availability to current listing and property evidence.

A grounded Scranton, PA comparison starts with current listings and lease offers, then uses the ACS evidence to check whether the sample is being interpreted in the context of 35,512 total units, a vacancy share of 14.8%, and an owner share of 49.9%. On the rental side, replace the $1,048 median with the actual lease, utilities, deposits, and expected changes. On the ownership side, keep the 49.9% share as market context while adding the selected property's price, taxes, insurance, maintenance, association obligations, loan disclosures, and cash-to-close. In practical terms, the resulting worksheet will not turn 50.1% or 49.9% into a recommendation, but it will keep the two paths comparable and make the remaining assumptions visible before a decision.