Falconer, New York.
Typical home $138,735 (+6.5% in a year). Jamestown-Dunkirk-Fredonia, NY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$444 (+157%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,507 +7%
- $130,228$138,735 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $43,124 +45%
- $95,612$138,735 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.
- Falconer$728
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 9 years.
Typical home values in Falconer, NY rose 6.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Falconer, Chautauqua County, New York
Falconer is a village of 2,269 people in Chautauqua County. Half its households earn more than $60,056 a year and half less, against $58,351 across Chautauqua County; 11% of its people live below the poverty line. 72% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 28% are rented. Unemployment in Chautauqua County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Falconer is a small village in Chautauqua County, in the far southwestern corner of New York. Most homes here are lived in by their owners, and household incomes run a little above the county's. Winters are cold and very snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers are warm and July is the warmest.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, restaurants and hotels, and shops also employing many. The largest workplaces in Falconer include the Falconer Central School District, Jamestown Container, which makes corrugated shipping containers, and Fancher Chair Co, a maker of wooden office chairs. Few people work from home, and unemployment across the county is close to where it stood a year ago.
Things to do. In or beside town, the Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Center and the Roger Tory Peterson Institute are both museums, and the Reg Lenna Center for the Arts is a theatre. The Chadakoin River is a short drive away, and Chautauqua Lake is a longer drive for time on the water. Allegany State Park, a protected area, is also a longer drive away.
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- 924households
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Chautauqua County had 45,974 jobs in 2025, 0.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 57°. About 98 inches of snow and 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Jamestown Ene weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Falconer
- Falconer Central School DistrictSchool district221FTE
- Jamestown ContainerShipping containers, corrugated, made from purchased paper or paperboard119
- Fancher Chair CoChairs, wood office-type, manufacturing108
- Lakeside CapitalCustom roll forming metal products58
- UPSCorporate, subsidiary, and regional managing offices56
- Ellison BronzeFrames, door and window, metal, manufacturing52
- Tops MarketsGrocery stores44
- Hanson Sign & Screen ProcessSign, building, erection28
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 9 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 517 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
- Inland floodingVery high
- LightningRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Falconer’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Chautauqua County and the Jamestown-Dunkirk-Fredonia, NY metro.
Falconer home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Falconer$138,735
- 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.
- Falconer5
Zip codes with a Falconer address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Falconer — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.