Almond, New York.
Typical home $162,262 (+6.7% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$155 (+22%) since Jan 2024.
- 1 year
- Up $10,159 +7%
- $152,103$162,262 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.
- Almond$852
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Almond, NY rose 6.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Almond, Allegany County, New York
Almond is a village of 415 people in Allegany County. 83% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 17% are rented. Unemployment in Allegany County was 5.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Almond is a small village in Allegany County, in western New York's hill country, and it is very much a small-town place. Nearly everyone who lives here owns their home, far more than in most towns, and homes cost less than in much of the country. Poverty is more common than across much of the country, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many places. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers are warm in July without turning hot. Rain and melted snow add up to a fairly wet year.
Work. Residents mostly work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by restaurants, hotels and entertainment, then manufacturing and government. Across Allegany County, the largest workplaces include SUNY College of Technology at Alfred, Alfred University and Jones Memorial Hospital. Unemployment in the county is a little higher than a year ago, and the number of jobs has slipped slightly. Few people work from home.
Things to do. Almond Lake, a reservoir in or beside town, is the nearest spot for time on the water. A short drive away are the Schein–Joseph International Museum of Ceramic Art and the Allen Steinheim Museum, both museums. Letchworth State Park, a protected area along the Genesee River, is a longer drive away and worth the trip for a day outdoors.
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- 143households
- 28%of adults have a degree
- 20%below the poverty line
- 5%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Allegany County had 13,544 jobs in 2025, 0.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 30° and lows near 12°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 54°. About 62 inches of snow and 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hornell Almond Dam weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Allegany County
- SUNY College of Technology at AlfredUniversity or college643
- Alfred UniversityUniversity or college608
- Otis Minnesota ServicesOil pipeline construction556
- Saputo Cheese USACheese manufacturing380
- HrncSkilled nursing facilities338
- Jones Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital304FTE
- Wellsville Central School DistrictSchool district285FTE
- Arvos LjungstromPlate work, fabricated metal, manufacturing271
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 20 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,442 people in all across the county; Almond has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts 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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Almond’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 Allegany County.
Almond home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Almond$162,262
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Almond6
Zip codes with a Almond address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Almond — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.