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As of the census According to the U. S. Census Bureau, the borough has a total area of 1.7 square miles (4 km2), all land. Nazareth's climate is similar to the rest of the Lehigh Valley with four distinct seasons, humid summers, cold winters, and very short and mild springs and falls. This climate is hot summer humid continental (Dfa) and average monthly temperatures range from in January to in July. The hardiness zone is 6b. Nazareth's topography can best be described as hilly, as the town itself sits atop a local outcropping underground of one of the richest veins of limestone in the U. S. Much of the farmland surrounding Nazareth is being converted into close sitting lots of suburban housing, for predominantly commuter households.

As of 2016, there were 22.48 mile (36 km) of public roads in Nazareth, of which 5.24 mile (8 km) were maintained by the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) and 17.24 mile (28 km) were maintained by the borough. Pennsylvania Route 191 and Pennsylvania Route 248 are the numbered highways serving Nazareth. PA 248 follows Easton Road along an east west alignment across the southern edge of the borough. PA 191 follows a southwest northeast alignment via Easton Road, Broad Street, Center Street and New Street, including a short concurrency with PA 248.

News about the Nazareth community is reported regularly in regional newspapers The Morning Call and The Express Times daily newspapers and local shoppers, including The Nazareth Times, The Home News, and The Key.

Nazareth was home to the Nazareth Speedway, a one mile tri oval automobile racing course. The track opened in 1910 and closed in 2004, and the site has remained vacant ever since. Nazareth is also home to racing champions Mario Andretti and Michael Andretti, and third generation driver Marco Andretti.

Kraemer Textiles Inc., which started out as a silk hosiery maker in 1887, is based in Nazareth. Over the years, the company changed to spinning yarns out of manmade and natural fibers for clients to use in the manufacture of upholstery, clothing, and home furnishings. The company creates and markets its own brand of handicraft yarns under the Kraemer Yarns label. The company also spun the Merino wool yarn that was used in creating the end to end American made sweaters produced by the Ralph Lauren Corporation for the athletes of the 2014 Winter Olympics.

Nazareth is the global headquarters for C. F. Martin & Company, which manufactures Martin guitars. Martin guitars are handmade instruments that once were made by artisans who apprenticed for years to learn their trade. Now, Martin Guitars are made largely on an assembly line monitored and assisted by workers, computers, and lasers. Assembly lines at Martin were instituted to lower costs, improve speed of production, and compete with foreign manufacturers, without which efforts it is said that the company would have ceased to survive.

In the 1960s, at least three large cement companies surrounded the Nazareth borough area, Essroc (formally Coplay Cement), Hercules Cement, and Penn Dixie Cement Companies. The Coplay plant on the south side has undergone company ownership changes through the years (and was also known as the Nazareth Cement Company, among other names). Hundreds of union laborers of the United Gypsum, Lime and Cement Unions worked in each plant around the town from the early 1900s. Stories of the hard pre union days at the cement plants are replete with the description of twelve hour days for survival wages, poor working and health conditions, and many dangerous incidents and accidents causing loss of life and or limb without medical plans or benefits to survivors. Since the 1980s, however, the automation of the plants and eventual reselling of them to foreign firms has brought about the loss of most of the high paying union cement jobs, presenting a blow to the Lehigh Valley economy. The impact on the local economy of these lost cement jobs was intensified by the ultimate closing of neighboring Bethlehem Steel in 2003. In the case of Bethlehem Steel, it was not automation and modernization that downsized the workforce, but failure to modernize the mills, overloaded management, and a laissez faire management attitude about foreign competition and cheap foreign steel production.

"The Weight" is a popular 1968 song by The Band that takes the motif of an out of town traveler who arrives in a "Nazareth" and the people he encounters there, including the Devil. The Scottish band Nazareth later took their name from the song. Mark Knopfler wrote a 2000 song about a season of racing at Nazareth Speedway titled "Speedway At Nazareth". The song appears on Knopfler's second solo album, Sailing to Philadelphia. Nazareth native Mario Andretti is mentioned in several popular songs, including "Uneasy Rider" by Charlie Daniels (1973), "Shadrach" by the Beastie Boys (1989), "Good for Me" by Amy Grant (1992), "Drive (For Daddy Gene)" by Alan Jackson (2002), and "Crash" by Gwen Stefani (2004).