Dresden, New York.
Typical home $232,731 (+4.0% in a year). Rochester, NY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$673 (+123%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,018 +4%
- $223,713$232,731 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $53,954 +30%
- $178,777$232,731 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.
- Dresden$1,222
- 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 Dresden, NY rose 4.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Dresden, Yates County, New York
Dresden is a village of 293 people in Yates County. Half its households earn more than $70,729 a year and half less, against $69,701 across Yates County. Unemployment in Yates County was 2.9% in August 2026, and the county had 3.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Yates County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Dresden is a very small village in Yates County, in the Finger Lakes region of New York. Household incomes here run a little above the county's, and homes are valued at a modest level for a lakes-region town. Winters are cold, with January highs near freezing, and summers are mild and warm, with a year-round mix of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents mostly work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in manufacturing, shops and the building trades. Across Yates County, some of the largest workplaces are Penn YAN Central School District, Keuka College and Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hospital. Unemployment across the county is slightly lower than a year ago, and the county has added jobs over the past year. The typical commute is short.
Things to do. Keuka Lake Outlet runs in or beside town, a river good for a quiet walk along the water. A short drive away are Seneca Lake and Sampson State Park, a protected area for time outdoors. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to Watkins Glen International, a race track.
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- 17 mintypical commute
What people in Yates County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Yates County had 7,296 jobs in 2025, 3.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 33° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 62°. About 30 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Penn Yan Airport weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Yates County
- Penn YAN Central School DistrictSchool district329FTE
- Keuka CollegeUniversity or college287
- KANPAK Manufacturing Penn YanFrozen desserts manufacturing275
- Coach and Equipment ManufacturingTransmissions and parts, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing181
- Dundee Central School DistrictSchool district174FTE
- Soldiers & Sailors Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital162FTE
- Silgan PlasticsAwnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing160
- Vibrantz Technologies Penn YanRare earth compounds, not specified elsewhere by process, manufacturing108
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 12 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,349 people in all across the county; Dresden has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Dresden’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 Yates County and the Rochester, NY metro.
Dresden home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Dresden$232,731
- 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 Dresden address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Dresden — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.