Ashville, New York.
Typical home $238,431 (+5.2% in a year). Jamestown-Dunkirk-Fredonia, NY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$169 (+16%) since Dec 2023.
- 1 year
- Up $11,783 +5%
- $226,648$238,431 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.
- Ashville$1,251
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Ashville, NY rose 5.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Ashville, Chautauqua County, New York
The Census does not count Ashville on its own, so the figures here are Chautauqua County's. Half the county's households earn more than $58,351 a year and half less; 17% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 69% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 31% are rented. Unemployment in Chautauqua County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Chautauqua County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Ashville sits in Chautauqua County, in the far west of New York State, where the county's people are on average older than those across the country. Across the county, most homes are lived in by their owners, and home prices are modest by national standards. Many residents have lived here for years, and the county's households have lower incomes than the national typical, with a larger share of people living below the poverty line than across the country.
Work. Across Chautauqua County, most people work in schools, hospitals and social care, in factories, in shops, or in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Unemployment is a little higher than it was a year earlier, and the county has slightly fewer jobs than it did the year before. Few people work from home, and most adults reach their jobs by car.
Things to do. Chautauqua Lake is one of the best known spots in the area, a lake a short drive away. Long Point State Park on Lake Chautauqua, also a short drive away, is a protected area good for a walk by the water. For indoor days, the Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Center is a museum a short drive away, and the Reg Lenna Center for the Arts is a theatre a short drive away.
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- 53,393households
- 42.9median age
- 25%of adults have a degree
- 17%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What people in Chautauqua County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Chautauqua County had 45,974 jobs in 2025, 0.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 31° and lows near 13°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 53°. About 116 inches of snow and 49 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Chandlers Valley 1SE weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Chautauqua County
- CumminsEngines, diesel and semidiesel, manufacturing1,431
- Jamestown City School DistrictSchool district882FTE
- Nestle Purina Petcare CompanyFeeds, prepared for dog and cat, manufacturing800
- SUNY at FredoniaUniversity or college786
- Upmc Chautauqua at WCAGeneral hospital711FTE
- SKF GlobalBall bearing manufacturer444
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters403
- Jamestown Community CollegeTwo-year college360
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 115 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 12,415 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- LightningRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Chautauqua County, 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 Chautauqua County and the Jamestown-Dunkirk-Fredonia, NY metro.
Ashville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Ashville$238,431
- New York$524,942
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Ashville 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.
- Ashville33.39%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Ashville23
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Ashville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ashville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.