Castleton-on-Hudson, New York.
Typical home $374,927 (+5.8% in a year), asking rent $1,653 . Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,124 (+133%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $20,620 +6%
- $354,307$374,927 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $98,434 +36%
- $276,493$374,927 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.
- Castleton-on-Hudson$1,968
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Castleton-on-Hudson, NY rose 5.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Castleton-on-Hudson, Rensselaer County, New York
Castleton-on-Hudson is a village of 1,477 people in Rensselaer County. 64% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 36% are rented. Unemployment in Rensselaer County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Castleton-on-Hudson is a small village on the Hudson River, with a population that has stayed modest and a median age somewhat above that of many American communities. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and the typical home value sits well within what is common for the Albany area. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest. Rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by professional and business services, manufacturing and government. Across Rensselaer County, some of the largest workplaces are Regeneron's industrial operations, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Samaritan Hospital. Many people commute a fair distance to work, and a good number work from home. The county's incomes are comfortable by national standards, though some residents of the village live below the poverty line.
Things to do. Several places for a day out are a short drive away, including the New York State Museum, the USS Slater museum ship and the archaeological site of Fort Orange. The Moordener Kill and the Vloman Kill, both small streams, run in or beside the village. For a longer outing, Cohoes Falls and the Norman Rockwell Museum are both a longer drive away.
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- 687households
- 31%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 18%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Rensselaer County had 56,312 jobs in 2025, 0.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 34° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 62°. About 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Valatie North weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Rensselaer County
- Regeneron - Industrial Operations and Product Supply (IOPS)Culture media manufacturing5,100
- Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteUniversity or college1,800
- Samaritan HospitalGeneral hospital1,753FTE
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage926
- OCFS Home OfficeChild and youth services907
- Hudson Valley Community CollegeTwo-year college889
- East Greenbush Central School DistrictSchool district766FTE
- Troy City School DistrictSchool district703FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 97 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 18,147 people in all across the county; Castleton-on-Hudson 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
- HailRelatively 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 Castleton-on-Hudson’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 Rensselaer County and the Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY metro.
Castleton-on-Hudson home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Castleton-on-Hudson$374,927
- New York$524,942
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Castleton-on-Hudson listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
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.
- Castleton-on-Hudson30.99%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Castleton-on-Hudson24
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Castleton-on-Hudson8
Zip codes with a Castleton-on-Hudson address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Castleton-on-Hudson — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.