Canisteo, New York.
. Corning, 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 Canisteo, Steuben County, New York
Canisteo is a village of 2,176 people in Steuben County. Half its households earn more than $53,558 a year and half less, against $65,887 across Steuben County; 17% of its people live below the poverty line. 70% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 30% are rented. Unemployment in Steuben County was 4.1% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Canisteo is a village in Steuben County, in the Southern Tier of New York, and it is small enough that people tend to know one another. Most homes are lived in by their owners, though incomes run below the county's and more people live below the poverty line than many would expect to find in a village this size. Winters are cold, with January days that stay near freezing and plenty of snow, while summers are pleasantly warm.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, manufacturing, and restaurants and hotels also employing many. Across Steuben County, the largest workplaces include Corning City School District, Corning Hospital and Corelle Brands. Commutes are of moderate length, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. Almond Lake, a reservoir, is a short drive away and is the closest spot for time on the water. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to the Corning Museum of Glass, one of the best known museums in the region, and to Keuka Lake, a lake with a long shoreline. The Glenn H. Curtiss Museum, also a longer drive away, is another option for a day out.
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- 833households
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 17%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Steuben County had 34,483 jobs in 2025, 0.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 30° and lows near 12°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 54°. About 62 inches of snow and 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hornell Almond Dam weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Steuben County
- Corning City School DistrictSchool district839FTE
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs676
- CorningCatalytic converters, engine exhaust, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing647
- Alstom TransportationRolling stock, railroad, rebuilding634
- Corning HospitalGeneral hospital552FTE
- Corelle BrandsIndustrial glassware and glass products, pressed or blown, made in glass making plants365
- Wayland-cohocton Central School DistrictSchool district323FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters320
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 57 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 7,222 people in all across the county; Canisteo has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026) 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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- 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 Canisteo’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 Steuben County and the Corning, NY metro.
Canisteo 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.
- Canisteo10
Zip codes with a Canisteo address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Canisteo — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.