Bradford, New York.
. Corning, NY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,478 (+116%) since Jan 2020.
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.
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
Living in Bradford, Schuyler County, New York
Bradford is a town of 806 people in Schuyler County. Half its households earn more than $60,625 a year and half less, against $67,663 across Schuyler County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. 87% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 13% are rented. Unemployment in Schuyler County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 2.3% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bradford is a small town in Schuyler County, New York, where nearly everyone owns the home they live in. Household incomes run below the county's, and relatively few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and highs just above freezing, while summers are warm, peaking in July.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and professional and business services also employing a good share. Across Schuyler County, some of the largest workplaces are Schuyler Hospital, the Watkins Glen Central School District and US Salt. A typical commute is fairly long, and some residents work from home.
Things to do. A short drive away are the Glenn H. Curtiss Museum and Lamoka Lake, and Waneta Lake is close by as well. Farther afield, Watkins Glen International, a race track, and Seneca Lake are a longer drive away. The area's lakes and open country give plenty of reasons to head outdoors.
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- 287households
- 15%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Schuyler County had 5,185 jobs in 2025, 2.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 34° and lows near 13°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 56°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Bath weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Schuyler County
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters236
- Schuyler HospitalCritical access hospital209FTE
- Watkins Glen Central School DistrictSchool district208FTE
- US SaltSalt evaporation204
- Welliver McGuireOffice building construction140
- Odessa-montour Central School DistrictSchool district133FTE
- Cargill Salt - Watkins GlenSalt, table, manufacturing127
- The Baillie GroupWood chips made in sawmills116
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 10 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,316 people in all across the county; Bradford has none 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
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Schuyler County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Schuyler County and the Corning, NY metro.
Bradford home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Bradford9
Zip codes with a Bradford address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bradford — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.