Buchanan, New York.
Typical home $612,756 (+4.5% in a year). New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,330 (+70%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $26,135 +4%
- $586,621$612,756 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $32,937 +6%
- $579,819$612,756 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.
- Buchanan$3,216
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 63 years.
Typical home values in Buchanan, NY rose 4.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Buchanan, Westchester County, New York
Buchanan is a village of 2,302 people in Westchester County. Half its households earn more than $128,218 a year and half less, against $118,976 across Westchester County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 87% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 13% are rented. Unemployment in Westchester County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Buchanan is a small village in Westchester County, and most homes here are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run above the county's, and fewer residents live below the poverty line than you might expect. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, summers turn warm by July, and rain and melted snow add up to a good deal over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, banks, insurance and property, and professional and business services. Across Westchester County, the largest workplaces include Westchester Medical Center, PepsiCo and White Plains Hospital. A fair number of people work from home, and the typical commute is a long one.
Things to do. Bear Mountain State Park, a protected area of woods and trails, and the United States Military Academy, a museum of army history, are both a short drive away. The Croton River and the New Croton reservoir are also close by for time near the water. For a longer outing, the Bronx Zoo and the New York Botanical Garden are a longer drive away.
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- 831households
- 48%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 33 mintypical commute
- 14%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Westchester County had 433,070 jobs in 2025, 0.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 37° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 61°. About 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Shrub Oak weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Westchester County
- Westchester Medical CenterGeneral hospital4,340FTE
- Yonkers City School DistrictSchool district3,450FTE
- PepsiCoOffice administrative services3,117
- White Plains HospitalGeneral hospital2,984FTE
- A&A MaintenanceJanitorial services2,750
- St. Johns Riverside HospitalGeneral hospital1,819FTE
- Phelps Memorial Hospital CenterGeneral hospital1,796FTE
- Northern Westchester HospitalGeneral hospital1,720FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 483 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 79,918 people in all across the county; Buchanan has two 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
FEMA rates every natural hazard here relatively low or very low.
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Buchanan’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 Westchester County and the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
Buchanan home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Buchanan$612,756
- 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.
- Buchanan9
Zip codes with a Buchanan address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Buchanan — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.