Canandaigua, New York.
, asking rent $1,596 . Rochester, 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 Canandaigua, Ontario County, New York
Canandaigua is a city of 10,576 people in Ontario County. Half its households earn more than $64,929 a year and half less, against $82,324 across Ontario County; 11% of its people live below the poverty line. 51% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 49% are rented. Unemployment in Ontario County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Canandaigua is a small city in Ontario County, and its residents are older than in many American places. Incomes run below the county's, and homes are about as often rented as lived in by their owners, so renters make up a large part of the town. A good share of adults hold a four-year degree, and most people have a fairly short drive to work.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, restaurants, hotels and manufacturing also employing a good number. Among the largest workplaces in Canandaigua are Fredrick Ferris Thompson Hospital, the Canandaigua City School District and Wegmans Food Markets. Across Ontario County, jobs have dipped slightly over the past year, and unemployment is about where it was a year earlier.
Things to do. Canandaigua Lake is a short drive away, and the Canandaigua Outlet, a river, runs in or beside town. Sonnenberg Gardens, a botanical garden, is also in or beside town. The George Eastman Museum is a longer drive away. Winters are cold, with summers that are warm but not hot, and the year brings a moderate amount of rain and melted snow.
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- 5,181households
- 38%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Ontario County had 53,686 jobs in 2025, 0.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 33° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 62°. About 35 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Canandaigua South weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Canandaigua
- Fredrick Ferris Thompson HospitalGeneral hospital1,219FTE
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs744
- Canandaigua City School DistrictSchool district626FTE
- Wegmans Food MarketsRetail supermarkets472
- Sands Family YMCACivic and social organizations278
- Canandaigua WineryBeverages, wines and brandies, manufacturing180
- Ajay Glass & Mirror CoCurtain wall, glass, installation104
- Canandaigua Emergency Squad, Inc. (2)Ambulance services, air or ground61
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 10 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,976 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026) 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
- Strong windRelatively 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 Canandaigua’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 Ontario County and the Rochester, NY metro.
Canandaigua 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.
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Canandaigua listings, and the typical home goes pending in 12 days — the market is cooling.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Canandaigua24.27%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Canandaigua12
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Canandaigua77
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Canandaigua32
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Canandaigua106.43%
Zip codes with a Canandaigua address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Canandaigua — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.