+1 570 955 3538Law Offices in Lackawanna County: Size, Pay and Competition
Lackawanna County has 152 law offices with paid staff, 7.0 per 10,000 residents. Among ten Pennsylvania counties that is the first-highest rate. 70% of the offices employ fewer than five people: 106 of 152. For lawyers in Raleigh's Wake County the same measure is 61%, and the county has 665 offices. Everything below comes from Census and BLS files for 2023 and 2025.
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Who the competition is
The Census size classes show how a market is built. In Lackawanna County the offices fall like this.
| Employees | Lackawanna offices | Share of offices |
|---|---|---|
| 1–4 | 106 | 69.7% |
| 5–9 | 27 | 17.8% |
| 10–19 | 14 | 9.2% |
| 20–49 | 5 | 3.3% |
The four classes add up to all 152 offices, so none has 50 or more employees. The biggest class in the county, 20 to 49 staff, holds 5 offices. Across the eleven counties, Wake County has the most firms in that class (45).
Pay, by county
| County | Law-office establishments (BLS) | Jobs | Average weekly wage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wake | 842 | 5,862 | $2,196 |
| Luzerne | 116 | 636 | $2,044 |
| Lehigh | 100 | 627 | $1,670 |
| Schuylkill | 35 | 206 | $1,643 |
| Lackawanna | 139 | 669 | $1,521 |
| Northampton | 102 | 466 | $1,353 |
| Monroe | 35 | 172 | $1,171 |
| Wyoming | 8 | 18 | $1,090 |
| Wayne | 20 | 78 | $1,046 |
| Carbon | 21 | 62 | $865 |
The BLS covers 10 of the eleven counties for this industry at the detail we use. Susquehanna County is not listed because the BLS has no published figure for it. The table orders counties from the highest average weekly wage to the lowest.
Map: county borders from U.S. Census TIGERweb. Shading: law offices per 10,000 residents, five groups of two counties each, darker means higher. The thick outline marks Lackawanna County. Base map: OpenStreetMap contributors.
Lackawanna next to its neighbors
Offices per resident. Lackawanna has 7.0 per 10,000 residents. Luzerne has 3.7, Lehigh 3.0, Monroe 2.1, and Wake 5.9.
Employees per office. Lackawanna offices average 4.5 employees. Wake offices average 8.3. Employee counts carry Census noise, so read the figure as a close estimate.
Pay. The average Lackawanna law-office weekly wage is $1,521. Luzerne pays $2,044 and Wake pays $2,196.
What to do with it
A client chooses among a few dozen offices when they search. In a market of small offices, the one that answers the phone and shows its work wins attention. Our AI visibility audit checks what ChatGPT and Google AI can read about your practice, and lead follow-up automation replies to web inquiries when nobody is at the desk.
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Where the numbers come from
- U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns (CBP) 2023, county file, all industries. Open data: census.gov/programs-surveys/cbp. Pulled 2026-10-06.
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW), 2025 Q2, private ownership, county files. Open data: data.bls.gov/cew. Pulled 2026-10-06.
- U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates 2019–2023, table B01003 (population). Pulled 2026-10-06.
- USAspending.gov, spending by geography for Wake County, North Carolina (population field), federal fiscal year 2025. Used only as the Wake County population. Pulled 2026-10-06.
- U.S. Census Bureau, TIGERweb county boundaries. Pulled 2026-10-06.
FAQ
How many law offices are in Lackawanna County?
County Business Patterns 2023 lists 152 law offices with at least one paid employee. Lawyers who work alone with no staff are not in that count.
Why are most offices so small?
The files show the shape, not the cause. 106 of 152 offices fall in the one-to-four-employee class.
How does Lackawanna compare with Raleigh?
Wake County has 665 offices, 5.9 per 10,000 residents. Wake's population comes from a different source, so the rate is a rough match.
Which county pays lawyers' offices the most?
Of the counties with a published figure, Wake County, at $2,196 a week on average.
Is weekly wage the same as a lawyer's salary?
No. It is the average for everyone employed in law offices, including support staff.
