Bliss, New York.
Typical home $207,475 (+5.9% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$626 (+135%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,497 +6%
- $195,978$207,475 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $45,907 +28%
- $161,568$207,475 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.
- Bliss$1,089
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Bliss, NY rose 5.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bliss, Wyoming County, New York
Bliss, in Wyoming County, had 496 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Wyoming County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Wyoming 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bliss is a very small rural community in Wyoming County, in western New York, home to fewer people than most towns that appear on a map. Homes here cost well below what is typical across much of the country, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers stay mild, and rain and melted snow add up to a fairly wet year.
Work. People who live in Bliss work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in shops and in the building trades. Household incomes across Wyoming County run below those of the state as a whole, and the county has fewer jobs than it did a year earlier. Among the county's largest workplaces are Wyoming County Community Hospital, Letchworth Central School District and Steel & O'Brien.
Things to do. Letchworth State Park, a large protected area, is a longer drive away and is the best known of the outdoor places around Bliss. Silver Lake State Park and Silver Lake itself are also a longer drive away, for time near the water. For a different kind of day out, Six Flags Darien Lake, an amusement park, is likewise a longer drive away.
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- 202households
- 10%of adults have a degree
- 9%work from home
What people in Wyoming County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Wyoming County had 12,357 jobs in 2025, 1.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 28° and lows near 13°; warmest in July, with highs near 76° and lows near 58°. About 45 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Warsaw Southwest weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Wyoming County
- Wyoming County Community HospitalGeneral hospital376FTE
- Letchworth Central School DistrictSchool district230FTE
- Steel & O'BrienSteam fittings, metal, manufacturing227
- Attica Central School DistrictSchool district226FTE
- Creative Food Ingredients-New York222
- Perry Central School DistrictSchool district180FTE
- Warsaw Central School DistrictSchool district177FTE
- WalmartDiscount department stores131
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 32 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,124 people in all across the county; Bliss has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts 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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Bliss’ 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 Wyoming County.
Bliss home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bliss$207,475
- 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 Bliss address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bliss — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.