Breinigsville, Pennsylvania
Finished Basements in Breinigsville, Pennsylvania
Breinigsville has the newest housing of anywhere we work. Two thirds of it went up after 2000, which means the expensive prep work is often already done for you.
- Town
- Breinigsville
- County
- Lehigh County, PA
- Typical range
- $75 to $125 per sq ft
Modern pours mean the hard part is finished
The median Breinigsville home was built in 2005, and 66.2 percent of the 2,662 housing units date from 2000 or later (American Community Survey 2019 to 2023, tables B25035 and B25034). Only 3.2 percent predate 1940.
In that vintage you are generally looking at poured concrete walls, an eight to nine foot pour, 200 amp service as standard, and frequently a bathroom rough-in stubbed into the slab plus a window already at or near egress dimensions. When all of that is present, the job is finishing rather than remediating, and the price lands toward the lower end of the range rather than the top. We confirm each item on the walkthrough, because a capped stub disappears under twenty years of storage boxes.
Carbonate bedrock is the local caveat
Breinigsville sits inside Upper Macungie Township, and Upper Macungie sits on carbonate bedrock, limestone and dolomite. The township maintains a formal Carbonate Overlay Map inside its stormwater ordinance for exactly that reason.
Below-grade water management is a live issue here in a way it is not in Salisbury or Coopersburg. Before we frame anything we look at grading, downspout discharge distance, and whether the sump runs in spring. Fixing those is cheap before drywall and expensive after it.
Detached and attached are not the same quote
Breinigsville is 47.3 percent single-family detached and 40.2 percent single-family attached, with a further 12.5 percent in manufactured homes. Neighborhoods such as Trexler Pointe, Fallbrooke Farms and The Vineyard carry a lot of the newer attached product.
If yours is a townhome, read the Trexlertown page as well: party wall detailing and the mechanical end drive that layout. Median home value in Breinigsville is $368,600 and median household income $116,631 (ACS 2019 to 2023). The Parkland School District and the warehouse belt on Route 100 are what most people here name as the local anchors, along with the velodrome.
What it costs
$75, $125 / sq ft
The published rate in Lehigh County. $50,000 project minimum. A bathroom and a designed ceiling move you up the range.
Plan My Project- On site
- 6 to 10 weeks
- Permitting first
- 2 to 4 weeks
- Price
- Fixed, in writing
Most relevant for Breinigsville homes
Everything we include in a finished basement is on the finished basements page. Other Lehigh County towns: Allentown, Bethlehem, Emmaus, Macungie, Whitehall, Salisbury Township, Trexlertown, Fogelsville, Alburtis, Orefield, Schnecksville, Coopersburg.
If you are still weighing it up, read how a build runs from first visit to final walkthrough or the answers on cost, permits and moisture.
Planning a basement in Breinigsville?
A walkthrough and a written line-item price come before anything is demolished.