Cossayuna, New York.
Typical home $313,828 (+3.2% in a year). Glens Falls, NY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$115 (+8%) since Jan 2024.
- 1 year
- Up $9,610 +3%
- $304,218$313,828 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.
- Cossayuna$1,647
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Cossayuna, NY rose 3.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Cossayuna, Washington County, New York
The Census does not count Cossayuna on its own, so the figures here are Washington County's. Half the county's households earn more than $73,495 a year and half less; 11% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 77% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 23% are rented. Unemployment in Washington County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Washington County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Cossayuna is a small town in Washington County, in the eastern part of New York State. Winters here are colder and snowier than in most of the country, with January the coldest month and July the warmest. Rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year, so the seasons shape daily life.
Work. Across Washington County, most homes are lived in by their owners, and home values sit well above the county's median income. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in shops, or in professional and business services. Few people work from home, and jobs and unemployment have changed little over the past year.
Things to do. Cossayuna Lake lies in or beside town, so it is the easiest place to spend a quiet afternoon. The Batten Kill, a river a short drive away, is a good choice for an outing by water. The National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame is a longer drive away and is one of the best known museums in the area.
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- 24,469households
- 45.4median age
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What people in Washington County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Washington County had 14,858 jobs in 2025, 0.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 11°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 55°. About 75 inches of snow and 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Sunderland weather station, 16 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Washington County
- Washington CountyLegislative bodies543
- Hudson Falls Central School DistrictSchool district490FTE
- Irving Consumer ProductsPaper towels made in paper mills330
- Granville Central School DistrictSchool district219FTE
- The Fort Miller CoConcrete products, precast, manufacturing209
- Cambridge Central School DistrictSchool district197FTE
- Greenwich Central School DistrictSchool district190FTE
- RozellCrane rental with operator170
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 36 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,360 people in all. School districts come 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
- 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 across Washington County, 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 Washington County and the Glens Falls, NY metro.
Cossayuna home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Cossayuna$313,828
- 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.
- Cossayuna5
Zip codes with a Cossayuna address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Cossayuna — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.