Batavia, New York.
Typical home $206,018 (+6.2% in a year), asking rent $1,517 . Batavia, NY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$133 (+14%) since Dec 2023.
- 1 year
- Up $12,020 +6%
- $193,998$206,018 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.
- Batavia$1,081
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Batavia, NY rose 6.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Batavia, Genesee County, New York
Batavia is a city of 15,600 people in Genesee County. Half its households earn more than $59,446 a year and half less, against $73,314 across Genesee County; 14% of its people live below the poverty line. 53% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 47% 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 residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Batavia is a small city in Genesee County, western New York, with residents who are older than in much of the country. Household incomes run below the county's, and somewhat more homes are lived in by their owners than rented, though renting is common too. A four-year degree is less common among adults here than across the country as a whole. Winters are cold, with a great deal of snow, and summers are warm.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and the building trades also employing a good share. Among the largest workplaces in Batavia are United Memorial Medical Center, Batavia City School District and Graham, which makes heat exchangers. The typical commute is a short one, and few people work from home. Unemployment in the county is low and has held steady over the past year, and the county has added a few more jobs.
Things to do. Letchworth State Park, a protected area of gorges and waterfalls, is a longer drive away and is among the best known sights in the region. Conesus Lake, also a longer drive, is a lake for boating and time by the water. For something livelier, Six Flags Darien Lake is an amusement park a longer drive away, and Hamlin Beach State Park offers a lakeshore setting, also a longer drive from town.
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- 7,349households
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What residents 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, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Batavia
- United Memorial Medical CenterGeneral hospital797FTE
- Batavia City School DistrictSchool district516FTE
- GrahamHeat exchangers manufacturing397
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs276
- Chapin InternationalPulp products, molded, manufacturing212
- Department of HealthSkilled nursing facilities152
- Tops MarketsGrocery stores146
- The grand Rehabilitation and Nursing at BataviaSkilled nursing facilities113
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 22 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,559 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- Inland floodingrelatively high in parts of BataviaRelatively 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 Batavia’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 Genesee County and the Batavia, NY metro.
Batavia home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Batavia$206,018
- New York$524,942
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Batavia listings, and the typical home goes pending in 12 days — 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.
- Batavia18.84%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Batavia49
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Batavia22
Zip codes with a Batavia address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Batavia — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.