Brocton, New York.
Typical home $151,624 (+0.0% in a year). Jamestown-Dunkirk-Fredonia, NY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$473 (+147%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $31 +0%
- $151,592$151,624 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $31,640 +26%
- $119,984$151,624 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.
- Brocton$796
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Brocton, NY rose 0.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Brocton, Chautauqua County, New York
Brocton is a village of 1,286 people in Chautauqua County. Half its households earn more than $58,500 a year and half less, against $58,351 across Chautauqua County. 64% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 36% are rented. Unemployment in Chautauqua County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% fewer 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Brocton is a village on the Lake Erie shore in Chautauqua County, and it is a younger place than many, with residents who skew younger than the typical American town. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes run close to the county's, with homes that sit at a modest price. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while July brings warm days, and the year brings a good deal of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, manufacturing, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Chautauqua County, some of the largest workplaces are Cummins, the Jamestown City School District and SUNY at Fredonia. Commutes are short, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. Lake Erie State Park lies in or beside town, so open shoreland is close at hand. A short drive away are Bear Lake, a quiet lake, and the Fredonia Opera House, a theatre. Chautauqua Lake, one of the best known spots in the area, is a longer drive away.
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- 530households
- 24%of adults have a degree
- 17 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Chautauqua County had 45,974 jobs in 2025, 0.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 34° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 63°. About 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Portland1 Southwest weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Chautauqua County
- CumminsEngines, diesel and semidiesel, manufacturing1,431
- Jamestown City School DistrictSchool district882FTE
- Nestle Purina Petcare CompanyFeeds, prepared for dog and cat, manufacturing800
- SUNY at FredoniaUniversity or college786
- Upmc Chautauqua at WCAGeneral hospital711FTE
- SKF GlobalBall bearing manufacturer444
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters403
- Jamestown Community CollegeTwo-year college360
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 115 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 12,415 people in all across the county; Brocton has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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 moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively 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 Brocton’s census tracts, 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 Chautauqua County and the Jamestown-Dunkirk-Fredonia, NY metro.
Brocton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Brocton$151,624
- 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Brocton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Brocton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.