Elba, New York.
Typical home $203,219 (+2.5% in a year). Batavia, NY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$71 (+7%) since Dec 2023.
- 1 year
- Up $4,899 +2%
- $198,320$203,219 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.
- Elba$1,067
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Elba, NY rose 2.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Elba, Genesee County, New York
Elba is a village of 558 people in Genesee County. 88% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 12% are rented. Unemployment in Genesee County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in government, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Elba is a small village in Genesee County, home to a very small population. Nearly all homes are lived in by their owners, far more than in most places, and typical home values sit at a modest level. Winters are cold and very snowy, with January the coldest month, while July is the warmest and pleasantly warm.
Work. Residents work mostly in government, shops, manufacturing, and schools, hospitals and social care. Across Genesee County, some of the largest workplaces are United Memorial Medical Center, the Batavia City School District and O-AT-KA Milk Products. Commutes are fairly short, and relatively few people work from home.
Things to do. Iroquois National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area, is a short drive away, as is Bergen-Byron Swamp, another protected area. For a day out, Six Flags Darien Lake, an amusement park, and Hamlin Beach State Park, a protected area on the lakeshore, are a longer drive away.
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- 218households
- 19%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 19 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Genesee County had 23,314 jobs in 2025, 1.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 31° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 61°. About 74 inches of snow and 37 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Batavia weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Genesee County
- United Memorial Medical CenterGeneral hospital797FTE
- Batavia City School DistrictSchool district516FTE
- O-AT-KA Milk ProductsYogurt mix manufacturing451
- Genesee Community CollegeTwo-year college412
- HP HoodMilk, fluid, manufacturing403
- GrahamHeat exchangers manufacturing397
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters356
- Liberty PumpsPumps, sump or water, residential-type, manufacturing351
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 69 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 7,105 people in all across the county; Elba 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
- LightningVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Elba’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 Genesee County and the Batavia, NY metro.
Elba home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Elba$203,219
- 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.
- Elba5
Zip codes with a Elba address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Elba — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.