Alburtis is in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. It is classified as a borough, and is part of the Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton Metro Area. It is a suburb of Allentown. It has a total area of 0.7 square miles, all of which is land. It is generally accepted that the town is named after a railroad engineer, Edward K. Alburtis.

Manufacturing, construction, health care and social assistance and tourism are the major economic activities here. Lock Ridge Park is the better known public park here. Public schooling is within the East Penn School District, comprising elementary, middle and high schools. The closest hospital is the Surgical Specialty Center at Coordinated Health, located about 8 miles away in Allentown. The cost of living here is 1.80% higher than the country average.

This place gets about 46 inches of rain annually. The number of days with measurable precipitation is 120. Snowfall is about 27 inches annually.

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