Austerlitz, New York.
Typical home $671,029 (+10.5% in a year). Hudson, NY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$743 (+27%) since Jan 2024.
- 1 year
- Up $63,543 +10%
- $607,486$671,029 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.
- Austerlitz$3,522
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Austerlitz, NY rose 10.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Austerlitz, Columbia County, New York
Austerlitz is a town of 1,625 people in Columbia County. 94% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 6% are rented. Unemployment in Columbia County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Columbia County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Austerlitz is a small town in Columbia County, New York, and its residents are older than in most places, with homes that are almost all lived in by their owners. Very few people live below the poverty line, and a four-year degree is common among adults. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest; precipitation falls as both rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by professional and business services, shops, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Columbia County, some of the largest workplaces are Columbia Memorial Hospital, Kinderhook Central School District and Hudson City School District. Many people work from home, and the typical commute is a modest one.
Things to do. The Norman Rockwell Museum is a museum a short drive away. Beebe Hill State Forest is a protected area in or beside town, handy for a walk close to home. Olana State Historic Site, also a museum, is a longer drive away.
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- 815households
- 70%of adults have a degree
- 3%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 30%work from home
What people in Columbia County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Columbia County had 20,909 jobs in 2025, 0.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 34° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 62°. About 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Valatie North weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Columbia County
- Columbia Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital1,036FTE
- Kinderhook Central School DistrictSchool district332FTE
- Hudson City School DistrictSchool district316FTE
- Pine Haven Nursing & Rehabilitation CenterLong term health care300
- Chatham Central School DistrictSchool district275FTE
- Taconic Hills Central School DistrictSchool district254FTE
- Ginsberg's Foods HudsonGeneral-line groceries merchant wholesalers250
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters244
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 37 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,298 people in all across the county; Austerlitz has none of its own. Hospitals come 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 moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Columbia 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 Columbia County and the Hudson, NY metro.
Austerlitz home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Austerlitz$671,029
- 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 Austerlitz address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Austerlitz — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.