Auburn, New York.
Typical home $226,072 (+5.9% in a year), asking rent $1,417 . Auburn, NY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$689 (+138%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,582 +6%
- $213,490$226,072 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $59,226 +35%
- $166,845$226,072 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.
- Auburn$1,187
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Auburn, NY rose 5.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Auburn, Cayuga County, New York
Auburn is a city of 26,866 people in Cayuga County. Half its households earn more than $51,052 a year and half less, against $67,904 across Cayuga County; 20% of its people live below the poverty line. 49% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 51% are rented. Unemployment in Auburn was 4.6% in August 2026, and Cayuga County had 0.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Auburn is a small city where incomes run below the county's and a good share of residents live below the poverty line, with fewer homes lived in by their owners than you would find across Cayuga County as a whole. The population is a little older than the typical American town, and a four-year degree is less common among adults than in many places. Winters are cold and very snowy, with January the coldest month, while July brings warm summer days.
Work. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, manufacturing, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Among the largest workplaces in Auburn are Auburn Memorial Hospital, the Auburn City School District and Wegmans Food Markets. The typical commute is short, few people work from home, and across Cayuga County the number of jobs slipped slightly last year.
Things to do. Harriet Tubman National Historical Park, a protected area, lies in or beside town. Owasco Lake and Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge are each a short drive away, the first a lake and the second a protected area. Skaneateles Lake and Cayuga Lake are a longer drive away for more time on the water.
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- 11,875households
- 21%of adults have a degree
- 20%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Cayuga County had 24,534 jobs in 2025, 0.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 31° and lows near 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 60°. About 109 inches of snow and 44 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Auburn weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Auburn
- Auburn Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital708FTE
- Auburn City School DistrictSchool district699FTE
- Loretto ManagementHomes for the elderly414
- Wegmans Food MarketsRetail supermarkets383
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters321
- Cayuga County Community CollegeTwo-year college289
- The REV Theatre CompanyTheaters, musical250
- Xylem Water Systems - AuburnPumps, industrial and commercial-type, general purpose, manufacturing235
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 25 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,600 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
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Winter weatherrelatively high in parts of AuburnRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Auburn’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 Cayuga County and the Auburn, NY metro.
Auburn home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Auburn$226,072
- New York$524,942
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Auburn listings, and the typical home goes pending in 20 days — the market is cooling.
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.
- Auburn31.03%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Auburn20
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Auburn122
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Auburn45
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Auburn$191,053
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Auburn address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Auburn — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.