June 20, 2025 -- Lackawanna County today mailed to property owners the final valuations for all 102,685 properties in Lackawanna County, as determined by the first comprehensive countywide reassessment since 1968.

Also today, the county placed online the entire database for the new valuations. It is on the county website, lackawannacounty.org. Anyone interested in reviewing the searchable database may visit the Assessors Office page under the “Government” tab or simply click on the streaming banner at the top of the home page.

Today, June 20, also marks the beginning of the formal assessment appeal process. Appeal forms are online at the same location as the database, and at the Assessors Office, 123 Wyoming Ave., Scranton, second floor. Any property owner who believes a new valuation is incorrect has until Friday, Aug. 1, at 4 p.m. to file an appeal. Mailed appeals will be accepted later if they are postmarked by Aug. 1. The appeal fee is $35 per parcel.

Appeals will be heard by the permanent county Board of Assessment Appeals, along with four temporary auxiliary boards. The hearing site is Suite 113 of the Marketplace at Steamown, on the first floor between the Electric City Aquarium and the Lehigh Valley Health Care Network. The office will validate marketplace parking stubs, so parking will be free.

Appeal hearings by all five boards will begin Monday, Aug. 4, at 9 a.m. The final hearings will be Friday, Oct. 31. The county will certify the final property valuations on Nov. 14. Lackawanna County, municipal governments and school districts will use the new valuations as the basis for 2026 property taxation. An appeal can result in a valuation being reduced, remaining the same, or increasing.

Tyler Technologies, the contractor that conducted the county’s first comprehensive reassessment in 57 years, recently handled 8,649 informal appeals, the equivalent of about 8.4% of all parcels. The results of those reviews are included in the final valuations that the county mailed today.

Property owners may file for a formal appeal regardless of whether they filed for an informal review.

WATCH: Tax Assessor Patrick Tobin explains the appeals process.