Bergen, New York.
Typical home $264,804 (+8.4% in a year). Batavia, NY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$174 (+14%) since Dec 2023.
- 1 year
- Up $20,517 +8%
- $244,287$264,804 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.
- Bergen$1,390
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Bergen, NY rose 8.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bergen, Genesee County, New York
Bergen is a village of 1,208 people in Genesee County. Half its households earn more than $88,906 a year and half less, against $73,314 across Genesee County; 15% of its people live below the poverty line. 79% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 21% 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bergen is a village in Genesee County, and most homes here are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run above the county's, though a noticeable number of residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers are pleasantly warm, with July the warmest, and precipitation falls steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, manufacturing, and professional and business services close behind. Across Genesee County, some of the largest workplaces are United Memorial Medical Center, Batavia City School District and O-AT-KA Milk Products. The typical commute is a short one, and some people work from home.
Things to do. The Bergen-Byron Swamp, a protected area, is a short drive away, as are Oatka Creek Park and Black Creek Park, which suit walks and time outdoors. For a day out, the George Eastman Museum is a longer drive away, as is Hamlin Beach State Park on the lake shore.
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- 528households
- 30%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 8%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 33° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 62°. About 36 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Brockport weather station, 9 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 across the county; Bergen has one of its own. 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
- LightningVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Bergen’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.
Bergen home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bergen$264,804
- 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.
- Bergen6
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Bergen address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bergen — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.