Barker, New York.
Typical home $242,948 (+5.0% in a year). Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$719 (+129%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,611 +5%
- $231,337$242,948 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $48,417 +25%
- $194,532$242,948 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.
- Barker$1,275
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Barker, NY rose 5.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Barker, Niagara County, New York
Barker is a village of 575 people in Niagara County. Unemployment in Niagara County was 4.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Niagara County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Barker is a very small village in Niagara County, in western New York. Homes here are valued at a good deal less than many places in the state, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm in July. Rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, retail and professional and business services also employing many. Across Niagara County, some of the largest workplaces are General Motors Lockport Components, Niagara University and Mount St. Mary's Hospital. The daily commute is a fairly long one, and unemployment across the county has stayed close to where it stood a year ago.
Things to do. Golden Hill State Park, Eighteen Mile Creek and Hartland Swamp Wildlife Management Area are all a short drive away, offering protected shoreline, a river and wetland to explore. Farther afield, a longer drive reaches Fort Niagara, a historic fort, and the Medina Railroad Museum.
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- 13%of adults have a degree
- 30 mintypical commute
What people in Niagara County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Niagara County had 68,617 jobs in 2025, 0.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 33° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 61°. About 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lockport 4E weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Niagara County
- General Motors Lockport ComponentsRadiators and cores manufacturing1,580
- Niagara Falls City School DistrictSchool district1,223FTE
- Niagara UniversityUniversity or college854
- Niagara Falls Memorial Medical CenteGeneral hospital779FTE
- Mount St. Marys HospitalGeneral hospital680FTE
- Lockport City School DistrictSchool district657FTE
- Niagara-wheatfield Central School DistrictSchool district592FTE
- North Tonawanda City School DistrictSchool district567FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 168 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 15,890 people in all across the county; Barker has two of its own. 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
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Barker’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Niagara County and the Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY metro.
Barker home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Barker$242,948
- 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.
- Barker8
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Barker address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Barker — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.