Chittenango, New York.
Typical home $281,596 (+6.7% in a year). Syracuse, NY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$895 (+153%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $17,773 +7%
- $263,823$281,596 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $92,143 +49%
- $189,453$281,596 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.
- Chittenango$1,478
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 9 years.
Typical home values in Chittenango, NY rose 6.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Chittenango, Madison County, New York
Chittenango is a village of 4,896 people in Madison County. Half its households earn more than $70,786 a year and half less, against $75,499 across Madison County; 15% of its people live below the poverty line. 66% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 34% are rented. Unemployment in Madison County was 3.9% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Chittenango is a village in Madison County, small enough that most people are likely to know one another by sight. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and residents are somewhat older than across the country as a whole. Household incomes sit a little below the county's, and a fair number of residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold and very snowy, with January the coldest month, while July is pleasantly warm and the year brings a moderate amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, manufacturing, and professional and business services. In Chittenango itself, some of the largest workplaces are Consolidated Precision Products, The Grand at Chittenango and Superior Metals Manufacturing. Many people commute a fair distance to work, while only a small share work from home, and across Madison County the number of jobs has slipped slightly from the year before.
Things to do. Chittenango Falls State Park is a protected area a short drive away, and Cazenovia Lake, also a short drive away, offers time by the water. For a longer outing, Oneida Lake is a lake a longer drive away. Old Erie Canal State Historic Park, another protected area a short drive away, is a good choice for a walk.
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- 1,987households
- 31%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Madison County had 20,808 jobs in 2025, 0.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 62°. About 128 inches of snow and 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Syracuse Hancock International Airport weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Chittenango
- Consolidated Precision Products235
- The Grand at ChittenangoSkilled nursing facilities100
- Superior Metals ManufacturingFoundries, steel investment76
- Tops MarketsGrocery stores65
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 476 people in all. 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
- LightningRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Chittenango’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 Madison County and the Syracuse, NY metro.
Chittenango home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Chittenango$281,596
- New York$524,942
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Chittenango 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Chittenango19
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Chittenango9
Zip codes with a Chittenango address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Chittenango — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.