Dalton, New York.
Typical home $170,340 (+5.7% in a year). Rochester, NY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$159 (+22%) since Jan 2024.
- 1 year
- Up $9,206 +6%
- $161,134$170,340 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.
- Dalton$894
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Dalton, NY rose 5.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Dalton, Livingston County, New York
Dalton, in Livingston County, had 351 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $73,949 a year and half less, against $74,001 across Livingston County; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Livingston County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Livingston County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Dalton is a very small community in Livingston County, New York, with far fewer residents than most towns. Household incomes are about level with the county's, and homes here cost less than in many parts of the country. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers are warm in July and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in shops, manufacturing, and professional and business services. Few people work from home. Across Livingston County, the largest workplaces include SUNY College at Geneseo, Livingston Health Care System and the Dansville Central School District.
Things to do. Letchworth State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away, and Wiscoy Creek, a river, is also close by. For a longer drive, Conesus Lake is one of several lakes in the area, and Stony Brook State Park is another protected area to explore.
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- 9%below the poverty line
- 3%work from home
What people in Livingston County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Livingston County had 19,851 jobs in 2025, 0.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 35° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 60°. About 36 inches of snow and 31 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Dansville weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Livingston County
- SUNY College at GeneseoUniversity or college871
- Livingston Health Care SystemGeneral medical and surgical hospitals558
- Dansville Central School DistrictSchool district352FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters352
- Wegmans Food MarketsRetail supermarkets327
- LMC Industrial ContractorsPipeline, gas and oil, construction309
- Livonia Central School DistrictSchool district303FTE
- Power & Construction GroupRoad construction259
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 46 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,169 people in all across the county; Dalton has none of its own. Colleges come 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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Dalton’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 Livingston County and the Rochester, NY metro.
Dalton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Dalton$170,340
- 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.
Zip codes with a Dalton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Dalton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.