Lackawanna County (/ˌlækəˈwɒnə/; Unami: Lèkaohane) is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It is located in Northeastern Pennsylvania[a] and had a population of 215,615 (2022). Its county seat and most populous city is Scranton.

The county was created on August 13, 1878, following decades of trying to gain its independence from Luzerne County. Lackawanna was Pennsylvania's last county to be created, and the only county to be created after the American Civil War. It is named for the Lackawanna River.

Lackawanna County is the second largest county in the Scranton–Wilkes-Barre–Hazleton, PA Metropolitan statistical area. It lies northwest of the Pocono Mountains approximately 40 miles (64 km) from the New Jersey border in Montague Township, and approximately 25 miles (40 km) from New York state in Kirkwood. The Lehigh River, a 109-mile-long (175 km) tributary of the Delaware River, flows through Lackawanna County.

Key Cities/Towns

Cities

Carbondale
Scranton (County Seat)

Boroughs
Archbald Blakely Clarks Green Clarks Summit Dalton Dickson City Dunmore Jermyn Jessup	Mayfield Moosic Moscow Old Forge Olyphant Taylor Throop Vandling

Townships
Benton Carbondale Clifton Covington Elmhurst Fell Glenburn	Greenfield Jefferson La Plume Madison Newton North Abington Ransom	Roaring Brook Scott South Abington Spring Brook Thornhurst Waverly West Abington

Megan's Law Statistics

(Copy from PA Megan's Law Database, click on Community Tools at top then the 3rd "Count of..." link and tally residents only)


County Total	Lifetime	Out of State	Pre-SORNA SVP	SVDC	SVP	Ten-Year	T1	T2	T3
428	83	53	42	0	11	26	79	75	59

Last updated: 10/23/25

Registration Sites

(from https://www.meganslaw.psp.pa.gov/VerificationSites/VerificationSiteSearch)

Lackawanna Co Probation, 130 North Washington Avenue, SCRANTON PA 18503, 570-963-6876
Scranton Police Dept., 100 South Washington Avenue, SCRANTON PA 18503, 570-348-4130
State Police Dunmore, 85 Keystone Industrial Park, Dunmore PA 18512, 570-963-3156

Other PFR-specific resources

County parole/probation office contact information

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Local Reentry Organizations

If you know of any local reentry organizations in the county, please contact us at contact@parsol.org

Lackawanna County Reentry Task Force

SOAB Approved Treatment Providers

Reference SOAB website -

State Representatives and Senators

Find your state representatives and senators here: palegis.us.

PARSOL Information

Region & Contact

Northeast
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Is there a County Contact

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