Akron, New York.
Typical home $322,693 (+6.0% in a year). Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$933 (+123%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $18,307 +6%
- $304,387$322,693 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $70,119 +28%
- $252,574$322,693 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Akron$1,694
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Akron, NY rose 6.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Akron, Erie County, New York
Akron is a village of 2,888 people in Erie County. Half its households earn more than $44,935 a year and half less, against $72,839 across Erie County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. 58% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 42% are rented. Unemployment in Erie County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Akron is a small village in Erie County, and its residents are older than in most places, with a median age well above what you would find across the country. Incomes are below the county's, and most homes are lived in by their owners, though fewer than in many nearby places. Winters are cold and very snowy, with January the coldest month, while July brings warm days, and the year is fairly wet overall.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, professional and business services, and shops close behind. Among the biggest workplaces in Akron are Perry's Ice Cream Co, the Akron Central School District and Cold Spring Construction Company. Commutes are fairly long, and a small number of people work from home.
Things to do. Six Flags Darien Lake, an amusement park, is a short drive away. Niagara Falls, one of the best known waterfalls in the world, is a longer drive, as is the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, which makes a good outing for a day in the city.
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- 1,575households
- 29%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Erie County had 464,902 jobs in 2025, 0.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 63°. About 95 inches of snow and 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Buffalo weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Akron
- Perry's Ice Cream CoIce cream manufacturing415
- Akron Central School DistrictSchool district255FTE
- Cold Spring Construction CompanyConcrete paving128
- AAkron RuleYardsticks, wood, manufacturing99
- AkronMail and parcel delivery21
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 663 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- Cold wavesrelatively high in parts of AkronRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Akron’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Erie County and the Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY metro.
Akron home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Akron$322,693
- New York$524,942
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Akron listings — the market is roughly in balance.
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Akron18.24%
- United States25.56%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Akron16
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Akron8
Zip codes with a Akron address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Akron — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.