Cayuga, New York.
Typical home $308,009 (+7.6% in a year). Auburn, NY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$929 (+135%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $21,874 +8%
- $286,135$308,009 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $81,162 +36%
- $226,847$308,009 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.
- Cayuga$1,617
- 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 Cayuga, NY rose 7.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Cayuga, Cayuga County, New York
Cayuga is a village of 472 people in Cayuga County. Unemployment in Cayuga County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Cayuga County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Cayuga is a very small village, home to far fewer people than most towns of any kind, and the winters are long, cold and snowy, with a good deal of snow and plenty of moisture through the year. Summers are warm without being hot. Homes here are valued above what the county's incomes might suggest, and the share of people living in poverty is modest. A four-year degree is held by a sizable part of the adult population.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and the building trades also employing many. Across Cayuga County, some of the largest workplaces are Auburn Memorial Hospital, the Auburn City School District and Wegmans Food Markets. The typical commute is moderate, and some people work from home. Unemployment across the county is unchanged from a year earlier, and the number of jobs has slipped slightly.
Things to do. Cayuga Lake State Park is in or beside the village, and Demont Creek runs through or alongside it. A short drive away are Women's Rights National Historical Park, a protected area, and Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge, another protected area. Cayuga Lake and Seneca Lake are a longer drive away for time on the water.
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- 212households
- 32%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What people in Cayuga County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Cayuga County had 24,534 jobs in 2025, 0.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 31° and lows near 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 60°. About 109 inches of snow and 44 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Auburn weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Cayuga County
- Auburn Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital708FTE
- Auburn City School DistrictSchool district699FTE
- Loretto ManagementHomes for the elderly414
- Wegmans Food MarketsRetail supermarkets383
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters321
- Cayuga County Community CollegeTwo-year college289
- Jasper HoldingsAutomotive parts, new, merchant wholesalers254
- The REV Theatre CompanyTheaters, musical250
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 67 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 6,699 people in all across the county; Cayuga has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively 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 Cayuga’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 Cayuga County and the Auburn, NY metro.
Cayuga home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Cayuga$308,009
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Cayuga6
Zip codes with a Cayuga address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Cayuga — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.