Alplaus, New York.
Typical home $360,005 (+6.7% in a year). Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$252 (+15%) since Dec 2023.
- 1 year
- Up $22,722 +7%
- $337,283$360,005 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.
- Alplaus$1,890
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Alplaus, NY rose 6.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Alplaus, Schenectady County, New York
The Census does not count Alplaus on its own, so the figures here are Schenectady County's. Half the county's households earn more than $79,623 a year and half less; 13% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 64% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 36% are rented. Unemployment in Schenectady County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 2.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Schenectady County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Alplaus is a community in Schenectady County, New York, where most homes are lived in by their owners, and a minority of residents live below the poverty line. The county's typical resident is middle-aged, and a minority of adults hold a college degree. The seasons are pronounced: winters are cold and snowy, colder than in most of the country, while summers are warm and the year is fairly wet.
Work. Across Schenectady County, many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in shops, and in government. Unemployment has held steady over the past year, and the county added jobs over the last year. A notable share of residents work from home.
Things to do. Cohoes Falls, a waterfall, is a longer drive away, and the New York State Museum is also a longer drive away. Proctor's Theatre is a short drive away, so it is an easy outing for a performance.
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- 66,902households
- 39.6median age
- 36%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 14%work from home
What people in Schenectady County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Schenectady County had 60,183 jobs in 2025, 2.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 33° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 62°. About 59 inches of snow and 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Albany Airport weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Schenectady County
- Ellis HospitalGeneral hospital2,026FTE
- Schenectady City School DistrictSchool district1,685FTE
- GE Global Research1,201
- Union CollegeUniversity or college801
- Niskayuna Central School DistrictSchool district744FTE
- Charter CommunicationsWired telecommunication carriers540
- GolubGeneral warehousing and storage500
- Rotterdam-mohonasen Central School DistrictSchool district476FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 145 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 19,197 people in all. 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
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Schenectady County, 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 Schenectady County and the Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY metro.
Alplaus home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Alplaus$360,005
- 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 Alplaus address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Alplaus — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.