Cornwall, New York.
Typical home $528,425 (+1.8% in a year), asking rent $1,750 . Poughkeepsie-Newburgh-Middletown, NY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$294 (+12%) since Jan 2024.
- 1 year
- Up $9,598 +2%
- $518,827$528,425 since Sep 2025
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.
- Cornwall$2,774
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Cornwall, NY rose 1.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Cornwall, Orange County, New York
Cornwall is a town of 12,884 people in Orange County. Half its households earn more than $114,635 a year and half less, against $97,178 across Orange County; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. 73% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 27% are rented. Unemployment in Orange County was 4.3% 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 government.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Cornwall is a town in Orange County where most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes run above the county's. Adults here are more likely than not to hold a four-year degree, and the population is somewhat older than the national picture. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while July brings warm summer days and the year is fairly wet.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with government, professional and business services, and shops also employing a good share. Across Orange County, the largest workplaces include Garnet Health Medical Center, the United States Military Academy and the Newburgh City School District. Commutes are fairly long, and a noticeable group of residents work from home.
Things to do. Storm King Art Center, a museum, lies in or beside town, as does Knox's Headquarters State Historic Site, a protected historic area. Dia Beacon, another museum, and Bear Mountain State Park, a protected area for outdoor time, are each a short drive away.
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- 4,986households
- 49%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 31 mintypical commute
- 16%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Orange County had 154,905 jobs in 2025, 0.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 36° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 65°. About 36 inches of snow and 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the West Point weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Orange County
- Garnet Health Medical CenterGeneral hospital2,626FTE
- United States Military AcademyUniversity or college2,000
- Newburgh City School DistrictSchool district1,723FTE
- Middletown City School DistrictSchool district1,262FTE
- St. Lukes Cornwall HospitalGeneral hospital1,049FTE
- Monroe-woodbury Central School DistrictSchool district1,009FTE
- Orange County Community CollegeTwo-year college952
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage910
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 262 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 32,499 people in all across the county; Cornwall has two of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Orange County, 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 Orange County and the Poughkeepsie-Newburgh-Middletown, NY metro.
Cornwall home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Cornwall$528,425
- New York$524,942
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Cornwall 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.
- Cornwall23.48%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Cornwall21
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Cornwall address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Cornwall — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.