Frewsburg, New York.
Typical home $180,561 (+5.7% in a year). Olean, NY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$576 (+155%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,666 +6%
- $170,894$180,561 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $49,619 +38%
- $130,942$180,561 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.
- Frewsburg$948
- 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 Frewsburg, NY rose 5.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Frewsburg, Cattaraugus County, New York
Frewsburg, in Cattaraugus County, had 1,843 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $75,536 a year and half less, against $59,540 across Cattaraugus County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 85% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 15% are rented. Unemployment in Cattaraugus County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 1.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Cattaraugus County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Frewsburg is a small community in Cattaraugus County where nearly all homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run well above the county's, and fewer people live below the poverty line than you might expect in a rural part of western New York. Winters are cold and long, with January the coldest month and a great deal of snow, while summers are pleasantly warm in July and rain and melted snow fall through much of the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, shops and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Almost no one works from home. Across Cattaraugus County, some of the largest workplaces are the Upper Allegheny Health System, the cutlery maker Cutco, and St Bonaventure University, and the county has added a few more jobs than it had the year before.
Things to do. A short drive away, the Robert H. Jackson Center is a museum, and the Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Center is another museum, while the Reg Lenna Center for the Arts is a theatre. For time outdoors, Chautauqua Lake is a lake a longer drive away, and Allegany State Park, a protected area, is also a longer drive from town.
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- 618households
- 8%below the poverty line
- 0%work from home
What people in Cattaraugus County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Cattaraugus County had 28,122 jobs in 2025, 1.6% more 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, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Cattaraugus County
- Upper Allegheny Health SystemGeneral hospital900FTE
- CutcoCutlery, nonprecious and precious plated metal, manufacturing653
- St Bonaventure UniversityUniversity or college606
- Great Lakes Cheese - FranklinvilleCheese, imitation or substitute, manufacturing513
- Yorkshire-pioneer Central School DistrictSchool district508FTE
- Salamanca City School DistrictSchool district411FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters411
- Olean City School DistrictSchool district407FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 54 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,325 people in all across the county; Frewsburg has two of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and school districts 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 floodingRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- 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 Frewsburg’s 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 Cattaraugus County and the Olean, NY metro.
Frewsburg home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Frewsburg$180,561
- 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.
- Frewsburg13
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Frewsburg6
Zip codes with a Frewsburg address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Frewsburg — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.