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Commercial Cleaning Services in Allentown, PA

The Lehigh Valley has turned into one of the Northeast's busiest warehouse corridors, and that changes what a cleaning contract here needs to cover.

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Transportation and warehousing now ranks among the region's five largest employers, alongside manufacturing. Distribution centers and plants around Allentown, Bethlehem, and Easton need ride-on scrubbing, dock sweeping, and high dusting on a fixed calendar. Health care is still the top employing sector, with 7 hospitals and a network of clinics across Lehigh and Northampton counties. Colleges add campus buildings, and older downtown offices in Allentown and Bethlehem bring their own floor and access quirks. The metro stretches into Carbon County and across the Delaware River to Warren County, New Jersey, with 887,615 residents in all. Cleaning labor is benchmarked at a $17.58 median wage. Warehouse floor work and office cleaning are priced and scheduled as separate lines. Book a free facility assessment for your site.

Get a Free Facility Assessment(202) 968-1190

We serve facilities across the Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ area. Call (202) 968-1190 to book a free walkthrough and get a written quote.

Services we scope in Allentown

  • Janitorial Services

    Nightly or daily cleaning for commercial buildings: restrooms, trash, surfaces, and break rooms.

  • Office Cleaning

    Recurring office programs scheduled around the tenant's hours and access rules.

  • Day Porter Services

    A daytime attendant for restrooms, spills, and touchpoints while the building is open.

  • Floor Care

    Stripping, refinishing, burnishing, and carpet extraction on a set schedule.

Allentown metro at a glance for facility managers

Local market figures from the U.S. Census Bureau, Bureau of Labor Statistics, CMS, and NCES. Sources are listed at the bottom of the page.

Population, 2025
887,615 [1]
Population, 2020
861,888 [1]
Population change, 2020–2025
3% [1]
Janitorial establishments (NAICS 561720, 2023)
156 [4]
Janitorial employees
2,589 [4]
Janitor mean hourly wage (May 2024)
$18.25 [5]
Janitor median hourly wage (May 2024)
$17.58 [5]
Janitors and cleaners employed (May 2024)
6,590 [5]
Employment in information, finance, professional, and admin sectors (NAICS 51–56, 2023)
63,191 [4]
Hospitals
7 [6]
Colleges and universities
15 [7]
Principal cities
Allentown, Bethlehem [2]
Counties in the metro definition
Warren County, NJ; Carbon County, PA; Lehigh County, PA; Northampton County, PA [3]

In May 2024, BLS reported a mean of $18.25 and a median of $17.58 an hour for janitors in this metro. Labor is the largest part of any cleaning contract, so local wages are useful budget context. Your price comes from the scope set at your walkthrough.

Largest private-sector industries by employment (County Business Patterns 2023)

  1. Health care and social assistance (62): 77,758 employees
  2. Retail trade (44-45): 48,515 employees
  3. Manufacturing (31-33): 43,299 employees
  4. Accommodation and food services (72): 30,565 employees
  5. Transportation and warehousing (48-49): 28,243 employees
[4]

What this means when you scope a building

  • Transportation and warehousing employs 28,243 people here. Warehouse floors need scrubbing between shifts, before forklift traffic picks up again.
  • Manufacturing sites around Bethlehem and Easton need production-floor care and separate schedules for locker rooms and break areas.
  • Sites in Carbon County or Warren County, New Jersey, sit outside the core and usually need their own route and start time.
  • With janitorial labor at a $17.58 median, separate line items for floor care and office cleaning make it easy to adjust one without cutting the other.

Industries we scope in Allentown

Questions facility managers ask

Which parts of the Lehigh Valley do you serve?

We serve facilities across Lehigh, Northampton, and Carbon counties in Pennsylvania and Warren County in New Jersey, including Allentown, Bethlehem, and Easton.

How are warehouse and office cleaning priced in Allentown?

The BLS median wage for janitors in the metro is $17.58 an hour, which frames labor cost. Warehouse pricing depends mainly on floor area, scrubber time, and shift pattern, while office pricing follows square footage, restrooms, and frequency. We measure all of it during the walkthrough, then send a written quote.

Can one contract cover a distribution center and its offices?

Yes. Most Lehigh Valley distribution sites have offices, break rooms, and restrooms that need daily care, plus a large floor that needs scheduled machine work. One contract covers both, with separate frequencies and timing.

What does the free facility assessment include?

We walk your building, review the areas you want cleaned and how they are used, and send a written quote for your building. Call (202) 968-1190 or email info@national-cleaning.com to book it.

Do you serve my part of the metro area?

We serve commercial facilities across the metro area, from downtown offices to suburban campuses and industrial parks. Call (202) 968-1190 to book a free walkthrough.

Nearby metros

We also serve facilities in nearby metros, including Philadelphia, PA, Scranton, PA, Lancaster, PA, Harrisburg, PA, New York, NY.

Pennsylvania service area·All service areas

Sources

  1. Population estimates · U.S. Census Bureau · View source
  2. Principal cities · U.S. Census Bureau · View source
  3. Metro boundaries · U.S. Census Bureau · View source
  4. County Business Patterns · U.S. Census Bureau · View source
  5. Occupational employment and wages · Bureau of Labor Statistics · View source
  6. Hospital directory · Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services · View source
  7. College directory · National Center for Education Statistics · View source
  8. Geographic coordinates · U.S. Census Bureau · View source