Kelayres is a census-designated place in Kline Township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, United States on Broad Mountain, just west of McAdoo.

Reservoir Number 8 is just west of Kelayres and drains northward into the Catawissa Creek, a tributary of the Susquehanna River.

Local Republican boss Joseph James Bruno and six members of his immediate family were arrested and tried for the murders.

All Kelayres residents are zoned to the Hazleton Area High School in Hazle Township.

[8] Kelayres is the southern terminus of Hazleton Public Transit bus route 20.