Forestville, New York.
Typical home $205,361 (+5.3% in a year). Jamestown-Dunkirk-Fredonia, NY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$621 (+136%) since Feb 2021.
- 1 year
- Up $10,393 +5%
- $194,968$205,361 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $55,559 +37%
- $149,802$205,361 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.
- Forestville$1,078
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Forestville, NY rose 5.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Forestville, Chautauqua County, New York
Forestville, in Chautauqua County, had 704 people in the 2020 census. 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 people in Chautauqua 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Forestville is a very small community in Chautauqua County, with far fewer residents than most towns people think of as small. Homes here are valued below what is typical across much of the country, and household incomes across the county run below the national picture. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are comfortably warm, with July the warmest. Rain and melted snow add up to a moderate amount over the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, shops and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Chautauqua County, the unemployment rate has stayed close to where it stood a year earlier, and the number of jobs slipped slightly over the past year. Among the county's largest workplaces are Cummins, SUNY at Fredonia and Upmc Chautauqua at WCA.
Things to do. Canadaway Creek and Cattaraugus Creek are both rivers a short drive away, and are the closest places to spend time outdoors. A longer drive brings you to Chautauqua Lake, one of the area's best-known lakes, and to Lake Erie State Park, a protected area along the lakeshore. Eternal Flame Falls, a waterfall, is also a longer drive away.
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What people in Chautauqua County 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 34° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 61°. About 33 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Dunkirk Chautauqua Airport weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Chautauqua County
- CumminsEngines, diesel and semidiesel, manufacturing1,431
- Jamestown City School DistrictSchool district882FTE
- Nestle Purina Petcare CompanyFeeds, prepared for dog and cat, manufacturing800
- SUNY at FredoniaUniversity or college786
- Upmc Chautauqua at WCAGeneral hospital711FTE
- SKF GlobalBall bearing manufacturer444
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters403
- Jamestown Community CollegeTwo-year college360
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 115 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 12,415 people in all across the county; Forestville has two 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
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Forestville’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Chautauqua County and the Jamestown-Dunkirk-Fredonia, NY metro.
Forestville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Forestville$205,361
- 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.
- Forestville5
Zip codes with a Forestville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Forestville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.