Fogelsville, Pennsylvania
Finished Basements in the Fogelsville Area, Pennsylvania
Fogelsville is not a municipality. It is an unincorporated village inside Upper Macungie Township, and the 18051 area holds three genuinely different kinds of basement.
- Town
- Fogelsville
- County
- Lehigh County, PA
- Typical range
- $75 to $125 per sq ft
Three eras in one ZIP code
Across the 18051 area the median home was built in 1988, but that median hides the real shape. The 1990s alone account for 31.6 percent of the stock, 13 percent predates 1940, and there is an active new-build layer on top of it (American Community Survey 2019 to 2023, tables B25035 and B25034).
The 1990s houses are the volume and they finish well: poured walls, generally seven and a half to eight foot pours, 100 to 200 amp service, often an unfinished walk-out or slider on the sloping lots, and usually no bath rough-in. The pre-1940 farmhouse tail is a different animal entirely, stone-walled and short on headroom. The new construction at Arabella Reserve, Wrenfield and Lehigh Hills arrives with everything already stubbed.
The highest-value housing we work in
Median home value in the 18051 area is $443,700, the highest of anywhere we serve, against $394,100 for Upper Macungie Township as a whole and $276,100 county-wide. Median household income is $133,071 (ACS 2019 to 2023, tables B25077 and B19013). The stock is 79.2 percent single-family detached and 87.8 percent owner-occupied.
Practically, that means Fogelsville basements more often carry a full second bath, a wet bar and a dedicated theater room rather than a single open rec room. At $75 to $125 per square foot, the difference between the bottom and the top of that range is almost entirely how many of those you are building.
Permits, boundaries and the carbonate belt
There is no Fogelsville borough and no Fogelsville municipal permit office. Depending on the address, the permit goes through Upper Macungie Township or Weisenberg Township. We confirm the jurisdiction before we draw, then draw and pull the set ourselves.
Like Breinigsville, most of the 18051 area sits in Upper Macungie's carbonate belt, so we look hard at grading and sump behavior before framing. Schools are Parkland. The I-78 and Route 100 interchange is the landmark everyone uses for directions.
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 Fogelsville 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, Breinigsville, 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 Fogelsville?
A walkthrough and a written line-item price come before anything is demolished.