Blauvelt, New York.
Typical home $808,823 (+5.8% in a year). New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,222 (+110%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $44,236 +6%
- $764,587$808,823 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $185,216 +30%
- $623,607$808,823 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.
- Blauvelt$4,245
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Blauvelt, NY rose 5.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Blauvelt, Rockland County, New York
Blauvelt, in Rockland County, had 5,548 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $174,255 a year and half less, against $109,959 across Rockland County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. 97% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 3% are rented. Unemployment in Rockland County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Blauvelt is a small community in Rockland County where almost everyone lives in a home they own. Household incomes run well above the county's, fewer people live in poverty than you might expect, and a large share of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with a fair amount of snow, and summers turn properly warm; precipitation is steady through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in professional and business services, government and shops. Commutes tend to be long, and some people work from home. Among the larger workplaces in Blauvelt are the South Orangetown Central School District, Instrumentation Laboratory (Werfen), which makes diagnostic products, and UPS.
Things to do. The best known places nearby are all a longer drive away, mostly in and around New York City. The Statue of Liberty is a famous tourist attraction, the Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the country's great museums, and Central Park offers gardens and open green space. Each makes a full day out rather than a quick errand.
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- 1,566households
- 56%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 42 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Rockland County had 138,234 jobs in 2025, 0.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 40° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 64°. About 33 inches of snow and 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Dobbs Ferry-ardsley weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Blauvelt
- South Orangetown Central School DistrictSchool district454FTE
- Instrumentation Laboratory (Werfen)Blood derivative in-vitro diagnostic substances manufacturing333
- UPSCouriers and express delivery services205
- AERCO InternationalBoilers, heating, manufacturing170
- FedExCourier and express delivery services168
- Hudson Line LogisticsDelivery service102
- Schreiner GroupScreen printing95
- Sign-Zone, LLC (NY Manufacturing)Print shops, digital91
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 11 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,456 people in all. School districts come 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Coastal floodingRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Blauvelt’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 Rockland County and the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
Blauvelt home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Blauvelt$808,823
- 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.
- Blauvelt11
Zip codes with a Blauvelt address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Blauvelt — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.