Shavertown is a community in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. The ZIP code is 18708.
Based on information from the Luzerne County Association of REALTORS® MLS as of October 29, 2026.
Shavertown at a Glance
Source - U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, 2020-2024.
About Shavertown
Shavertown is a community in Kingston Township, Luzerne County, named for Philip Shaver, who bought the land in 1813. It is not a separate borough. The census counts it as a designated place within the township.
It sits about seven miles northwest of Wilkes-Barre along PA Route 309, in the built-up part of the Back Mountain. The 2020 population was 1,968.
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Philip Shaver helped raise the Back Mountain's first schoolhouse, a hewn-log building put up in 1816 in what is now Dallas Borough. Today the community sits a short drive from the Back Mountain Memorial Library in Dallas Borough and is served by the Dallas School District.
Shavertown runs together with Trucksville just to its south. Housing is suburban Back Mountain, a mix of mid-century and newer homes on a compact footprint of just over a square mile. It offers Back Mountain schools close to the Wilkes-Barre job market.
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