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Radon in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania

EPA puts Monroe County, where Stroudsburg is, in Zone 1, its highest radon zone, and 30.7% of its 1,649 reported radon tests (2020) were at or above 4 pCi/L. Homes with elevated levels occur in all three zones, so only a test measures yours.

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  • Share at 4+ pCi/L

    30.7%

    0.4 pts above PA

    Monroe
    30.7%
    PA
    30.3%

    Monroe, 48th of 63 in PA, 2020

  • Median result

    2.1pCi/L

    Below action level

    Monroe
    2.1 pCi/L
    EPA
    4.0 pCi/L

    Midpoint of Monroe's tests, 2020

  • Nearest county

    41.3%

    Northampton, 17 miles

    Northampton
    41.3%
    Monroe
    30.7%

    3,434 tests, 2020

  • EPA radon zone

    Zone 1

    Highest potential

    1. Zone 1
    2. 2
    3. 3

    1 highest, 3 lowest

    Monroe, where Stroudsburg is

  • Tests reported

    1,649

    In Monroe

    Monroe
    1,649
    Northampton
    3,434

    Reported to CDC before any fix, 2020

Read a result for Stroudsburg

Starts at Monroe County's median, 2.1 pCi/L

2.1pCi/L

EPA’s own thresholds; the figures are the area’s, never this home’s.

EPA’s reading of 2.1 pCi/L

Between 2 and 4 pCi/L

  1. Under 20 to 1.9 pCi/L
  2. 2 to 4consider a fix
  3. 4 and aboveEPA says fix it

This result is between 2 and 4 pCi/L. EPA recommends considering a fix when the level is between 2 and 4 pCi/L. Monroe County's median reported result, 2020.

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The data

Stroudsburg, What is published

What is published for Stroudsburg

Information:

Every figure for Stroudsburg is a county's

Radon data is published by county, not by city, so for Stroudsburg it is Monroe County's: its EPA zone (Zone 1) and the 1,649 tests reported to CDC for 2020. Only a test tells you about one home.

Stroudsburg covers 1.7 square miles of land, all of it in Monroe County. About 5,809 people live there, 3,368 to the square mile.

Stroudsburg, Counties

The county Stroudsburg lies in

Measured

Monroe County's EPA zone and the figures CDC publishes for it, 2020.

Monroe CountyZone 1Highest predicted potential

30.7%
Reported tests at or above 4 pCi/L
2.1 pCi/L
Median reported result
1,649 tests
Tests reported to CDC
7
Annual years on file

Monroe County ranks 48th of 63 Pennsylvania counties with 30 or more tests for that period, 0.4 points above the 30.3% pooled across Pennsylvania's counties, 5.2 points above the national pool of 25.5%.

Measured from the middle of Stroudsburg, the nearest counties with a CDC figure for 2020 are Northampton County (17 miles, 41.3% of 3,434 tests), Pike County (25 miles, 30.7% of 1,158 tests) and Carbon County (27 miles, 40.6% of 438 tests). Across the 8 nearest, the share at or above 4 pCi/L runs from 23.2% to 41.3%; the farthest of them, Wayne County, is 46 miles away at 30.1%.

No business in the directory gives Stroudsburg as its address; the Pennsylvania list covers it. Pennsylvania's other cities with a page of their own: Pittsburgh, Allentown, Scranton and Harrisburg.

The counties around Stroudsburg

By distance from the middle of Stroudsburg; counties with 30 or more tests.

Nearest counties to Stroudsburg with 30 or more tests
CountyDistanceTestsAt or above 4 pCi/LMedian
Northampton County17 mi3,43441.3%2.9 pCi/L
Pike County25 mi1,15830.7%2.2 pCi/L
Carbon County27 mi43840.6%3.0 pCi/L
Lehigh County33 mi3,10339.8%2.7 pCi/L
Lackawanna County38 mi77627.1%2.1 pCi/L
Luzerne County43 mi99128.2%2.0 pCi/L
Bucks County45 mi7,06623.2%2.0 pCi/L
Wayne County46 mi60730.1%2.3 pCi/L

Predicted: EPA Map of Radon Zones, by county. Measured: CDC tracking data, by county, 2020.

Stroudsburg, Geology

The ground under Stroudsburg

Predicted

USGS's geologic map puts all of Stroudsburg's mapped land in one class: high radon potential. All of it lies in the area the map calls Appalachian Mountain Section, to which USGS gives a radon index of 12, in the high band (12 to 17).

USGS's geologic areas under Stroudsburg
AreaThe rock, in USGS's wordsPotentialRadon indexShare of land
Appalachian Mountain SectionPaleozoic sandstone, shale, and limestone.High12100%

Names, descriptions and indexes: U.S. Geological Survey, Geologic Radon Potential Map (2025). Shares: Radon411, from the map cut to the boundary.

Stroudsburg beside its county and Pennsylvania

Stroudsburg sits on more high-potential ground than Monroe County as a whole: 100% of the city against 32.3% of the county. Stroudsburg has more high-potential ground than Pennsylvania as a whole: 100% of its land against 70.4%.

Share of land by USGS radon potential: Stroudsburg, the county it lies in and Pennsylvania
AreaEPA zoneLow potentialModerate potentialHigh potential
StroudsburgBy countyNoneNone100%
Monroe CountyZone 1None67.7%32.3%
Pennsylvania67 counties, pooled by land areaVaries0.7%28.9%70.4%

The map rates the ground, not the air in any home.

Stroudsburg, Homes

Homes in Stroudsburg

Fewer than six in ten of Stroudsburg's 2,948 homes are detached houses (32%, against 82% across Monroe County); the rest are attached, in shared buildings or mobile. The homes are older than Monroe County's as a whole: half were built before 1955 (1984 for Monroe County), and 60% date from before 1960. Most occupied homes here are rented: owners live in 43% (Monroe County: 80%). A tenant can run a test; a fix is the landlord's to make.

Homes in Stroudsburg, Monroe County, Pennsylvania, 2019 to 2023
HomesStroudsburgMonroe CountyPennsylvania
Housing units2,94879,4585,779,663
Detached houses32%82%57%
In buildings of 5 or more25%4%13%
Mobile homes0%3%4%
Built before 196060%17%45%
Built since 200012%20%14%
Middle year built195519841965
Owner-occupied43%80%69%

Census Bureau, American Community Survey, 2019 to 2023: estimates from a sample of homes, looser for a small place. Shares by Radon411.

Local help

Stroudsburg, Local resources

Local resources for Stroudsburg

Who to ask in Pennsylvania: its radon program, test kits and professionals.

The program's own words on licensing are on the Pennsylvania page.

What it means

Stroudsburg, Questions

Questions about radon in Stroudsburg

What radon zone is Stroudsburg in?

Stroudsburg has no zone of its own: it shares Monroe County's, Zone 1, the map's highest class: a predicted county average above 4 pCi/L.

What are radon levels in Stroudsburg?

Around Stroudsburg, 30.7% of 1,649 tests reported from Monroe County for 2020 reached 4 pCi/L or more, so a high result is no surprise here. The median reported result was 2.1 pCi/L.

Should I test my home in Stroudsburg?

Yes. Monroe County reported about 506 of its 1,649 tests at or above 4 pCi/L. That is about what Pennsylvania as a whole reports (30.3%), and ranks Monroe County 48th of the 63 Pennsylvania counties with 30 or more tests. Which homes they were, no map can say. How to test a home.

What ground is Stroudsburg built on, as far as radon goes?

USGS's geologic map puts all of Stroudsburg on one named area, "Appalachian Mountain Section", rated high for radon potential, radon index 12.

Is radon higher in the counties around Stroudsburg?

It depends which way you go. 4 of the 8 nearest counties with a figure report a larger share than Monroe County's 30.7% and 4 a smaller one: from Bucks County (23.2%, 45 miles off) to Northampton County (41.3%, 17 miles off).

The answers use the published figures of Monroe County, the county Stroudsburg lies in.

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