Congers, New York.
Typical home $674,221 (+4.0% in a year). New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,827 (+107%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $25,782 +4%
- $648,438$674,221 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $137,657 +26%
- $536,564$674,221 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.
- Congers$3,539
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Congers, NY rose 4.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Congers, Rockland County, New York
Congers, in Rockland County, had 8,532 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $147,000 a year and half less, against $109,959 across Rockland County; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. 90% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 10% are rented. Unemployment in Rockland County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Congers is a small community in Rockland County where nearly everyone lives in a home they own. Residents are older than in most places, incomes run well above the county's, and relatively few households live below the poverty line. Most adults have a four-year degree, and winters are cold and snowy, with a good deal of rain and melted snow across the year before a warm July.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in professional and business services, shops and manufacturing. Some of the largest workplaces in Congers are AptarGroup, Star Kay White and Fischer Foods of New York. The commute is fairly long, and a good number of people work from home.
Things to do. The best-known places nearby are in and around New York City, each a longer drive away. The Metropolitan Museum of Art is the best known, with Central Park, a garden and green space, close behind. The United States Military Academy, also listed as a museum, is another option for a longer outing.
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- 2,704households
- 57%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 21%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Rockland County had 138,234 jobs in 2025, 0.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 36° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 61°. About 40 inches of snow and 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Yorktown Hts 1W weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Congers
- AptarGroupSeptic tanks, plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing350
- Star Kay WhiteConfectionery, nonchocolate, manufacturing162
- Goosetown EnterprisesTelecommunications equipment and wiring installation contractors114
- Fischer Foods of New YorkGeneral-line groceries merchant wholesalers41
- Sunrun Installation Services, Inc.-227 North RouteElectrical contractors and other wiring installation contractors32
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 699 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
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Congers’ census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Rockland County and the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
Congers home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Congers$674,221
- New York$524,942
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Congers 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.
- Congers27.44%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Congers23
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Congers9
Zip codes with a Congers address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Congers — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.