Basom, New York.
Typical home $208,549 (+7.1% in a year). Batavia, NY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$119 (+12%) since Dec 2023.
- 1 year
- Up $13,743 +7%
- $194,806$208,549 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.
- Basom$1,095
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Basom, NY rose 7.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Basom, Genesee County, New York
The Census does not count Basom on its own, so the figures here are Genesee County's. Half the county's households earn more than $73,314 a year and half less; 11% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 74% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 26% are rented. Unemployment in Genesee County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Genesee 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Basom sits in Genesee County in western New York, where winters are colder than in most of the country and snowfall is heavy. Summers are warm, and rain falls steadily through the year. Across Genesee County, most homes are lived in by their owners, and residents are somewhat older on average than in many parts of the country.
Work. Across Genesee County, unemployment edged up slightly over the past year, and the number of jobs grew a little in the most recent year. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in retail shops, or in the building trades. Few people work from home, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than across the country.
Things to do. For a short outing, the Iroquois National Wildlife Refuge is a protected area a short drive away, and Indian Falls, a waterfall, is also close by. Further off, the Niagara River, a river a longer drive away, is one of the best known waterways in the region.
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- 24,873households
- 42.4median age
- 24%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What people in Genesee County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Genesee County had 23,314 jobs in 2025, 1.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 31° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 61°. About 74 inches of snow and 37 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Batavia weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Genesee County
- United Memorial Medical CenterGeneral hospital797FTE
- Batavia City School DistrictSchool district516FTE
- O-AT-KA Milk ProductsYogurt mix manufacturing451
- Genesee Community CollegeTwo-year college412
- HP HoodMilk, fluid, manufacturing403
- GrahamHeat exchangers manufacturing397
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters356
- Liberty PumpsPumps, sump or water, residential-type, manufacturing351
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 69 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 7,105 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
- LightningRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Genesee 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 Genesee County and the Batavia, NY metro.
Basom home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Basom$208,549
- 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 Basom address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Basom — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.