Cairo, New York.
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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 Cairo, Greene County, New York
Cairo, in Greene County, had 1,368 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $81,885 a year and half less, against $77,945 across Greene County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Greene County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 1.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Greene County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Cairo is a small community in Greene County, in the Catskills region of New York. Household incomes here run a little above the county's, and fewer residents live below the poverty line than one might expect in a rural area. Winters are cold, with January the chilliest month, and summers turn warm by July.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with professional and business services, shops, and restaurants and hotels also common. The largest workplaces in Cairo include the Cairo-Durham Central School District, Hannaford grocery stores and Big Top Tent Rentals. The typical commute is a moderate one, and across Greene County the job market has been growing slightly, with unemployment holding steady over the past year.
Things to do. Kaaterskill Falls, a waterfall, is a short drive away, as is Catskill Game Farm, a zoo. Carson City and Indian Village, an amusement park, is also a short drive away. For a longer outing, Olana State Historic Site, a museum, is a longer drive away.
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- 6%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
What people in Greene County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Greene County had 14,337 jobs in 2025, 1.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 33° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 60°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Cairo Northwest weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Cairo
- Cairo-durham Central School DistrictSchool district262FTE
- HannafordGrocery stores139
- Big Top Tent RentalsTent, party, rental21
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 160 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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Cairo’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Greene County.
Cairo 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.
- Cairo12
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Cairo address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Cairo — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.