Canaseraga, New York.
Typical home $126,588 (+12.0% in a year). Rochester, NY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$397 (+149%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $13,518 +12%
- $113,070$126,588 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $29,811 +31%
- $96,777$126,588 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.
- Canaseraga$664
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Canaseraga, NY rose 12.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Canaseraga, Allegany County, New York
Canaseraga is a village of 460 people in Allegany County. Half its households earn more than $70,208 a year and half less, against $62,869 across Allegany County; 20% of its people live below the poverty line. 86% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 14% are rented. Unemployment in Allegany County was 5.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Canaseraga is a very small village in Allegany County, and nearly everyone who lives there owns their home. Household incomes run above the county's, though a noticeable part of the village still lives below the poverty line, and typical home values are modest. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm but not hot.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, manufacturing and the building trades. Across Allegany County, some of the largest workplaces are Alfred University, SUNY College of Technology at Alfred and Jones Memorial Hospital. Few people work from home, and the typical commute is a fairly long one.
Things to do. Stony Brook State Park, a protected area, and Almond Lake, a reservoir, are both a short drive away. For a longer outing, Letchworth State Park is a protected area that takes a longer drive to reach, as is Conesus Lake, one of the lakes to the north.
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- 10%of adults have a degree
- 20%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Allegany County had 13,544 jobs in 2025, 0.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 35° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 60°. About 36 inches of snow and 31 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Dansville weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Allegany County
- SUNY College of Technology at AlfredUniversity or college643
- Alfred UniversityUniversity or college608
- Otis Minnesota ServicesOil pipeline construction556
- Saputo Cheese USACheese manufacturing380
- HrncSkilled nursing facilities338
- Jones Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital304FTE
- Wellsville Central School DistrictSchool district285FTE
- Arvos LjungstromPlate work, fabricated metal, manufacturing271
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 20 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,442 people in all across the county; Canaseraga has one of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals 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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Canaseraga’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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 Allegany County and the Rochester, NY metro.
Canaseraga home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Canaseraga$126,588
- 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.
Zip codes with a Canaseraga address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Canaseraga — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.