Dover Plains, New York.
Typical home $429,414 (+4.0% in a year). Poughkeepsie-Newburgh-Middletown, NY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,315 (+140%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $16,637 +4%
- $412,777$429,414 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $101,090 +31%
- $328,324$429,414 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.
- Dover Plains$2,254
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Dover Plains, NY rose 4.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Dover Plains, Dutchess County, New York
Dover Plains, in Dutchess County, had 1,322 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Dutchess County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 3.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Dutchess County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Dover Plains is a small community in Dutchess County, with a population that stays well under the size of a typical town center. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and highs staying close to freezing. Summers are warm, July is the warmest month, and precipitation falls fairly evenly through the year as rain and melted snow.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, and in professional and business services, with others in shops, restaurants and hotels. Across Dutchess County, some of the biggest workplaces are Vassar Brothers Medical Center, Dutchess County Government and Marist College. Household incomes across the county are higher than in much of the state, and the county has been adding jobs while unemployment has stayed little changed from a year earlier.
Things to do. Macedonia Brook State Park and Kent Falls State Park are protected areas a short drive away, suited to walking and time outdoors. A longer drive brings you to Dia Beacon, a museum of contemporary art. Also a longer drive away is the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, a museum for anyone interested in the history it keeps.
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What people in Dutchess County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Dutchess County had 116,699 jobs in 2025, 3.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 34° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 59°. About 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Millbrook West weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Dutchess County
- Vassar Brothers Medical CenterGeneral hospital2,423FTE
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage2,382
- Dutchess County GovernmentExecutive offices, federal, state, and local1,787
- Wappingers Central School DistrictSchool district1,737FTE
- Arlington Central School DistrictSchool district1,519FTE
- Marist CollegeUniversity or college1,244
- Vassar CollegeUniversity or college1,227
- Bard CollegeUniversity or college1,046
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 190 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 29,290 people in all across the county; Dover Plains has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Dover Plains’ 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 Dutchess County and the Poughkeepsie-Newburgh-Middletown, NY metro.
Dover Plains home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Dover Plains$429,414
- 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.
- Dover Plains13
Zip codes with a Dover Plains address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Dover Plains — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.