Alexander, New York.
Typical home $251,160 (+8.2% in a year). Batavia, NY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$184 (+16%) since Dec 2023.
- 1 year
- Up $19,013 +8%
- $232,147$251,160 since Sep 2025
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.
- Alexander$1,318
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Alexander, NY rose 8.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Alexander, Genesee County, New York
Alexander is a village of 518 people in Genesee County. Unemployment in Genesee County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% more 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Alexander is a very small village in Genesee County, with a population among the smallest of any place on this site. Residents tend to be of middle age, and few live below the poverty line. Homes here are valued somewhat above what is typical for the region, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than across much of the country.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in manufacturing, restaurants and hotels, and the building trades. Across Genesee County, the largest workplaces include United Memorial Medical Center, Batavia City School District and O-AT-KA Milk Products. The typical commute is a moderate one, and few people work from home. Unemployment across the county is low and has barely changed over the past year, while the number of jobs there has edged up.
Things to do. Six Flags Darien Lake, an amusement park, is a short drive away, as is Darien Lakes State Park, a protected area for walking and being outdoors. A longer drive brings you to Letchworth State Park, a protected area known for its gorge and waterfalls, and to Conesus Lake. Winters here are cold and the summers pleasantly warm, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow through the year.
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- 169households
- 32%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Genesee County had 23,314 jobs in 2025, 1.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 30° and lows near 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 76° and lows near 59°. About 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Wyoming 3W weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Genesee County
- United Memorial Medical CenterGeneral hospital797FTE
- Batavia City School DistrictSchool district516FTE
- O-AT-KA Milk ProductsYogurt mix manufacturing451
- Genesee Community CollegeTwo-year college412
- HP HoodMilk, fluid, manufacturing403
- GrahamHeat exchangers manufacturing397
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters356
- Liberty PumpsPumps, sump or water, residential-type, manufacturing351
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 69 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 7,105 people in all across the county; Alexander has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- LightningVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Alexander’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Genesee County and the Batavia, NY metro.
Alexander home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Alexander$251,160
- New York$524,942
- United States$366,157
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.
Zip codes with a Alexander address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Alexander — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.