Groton, New York.
. Ithaca, NY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,478 (+116%) since Jan 2020.
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.
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
Living in Groton, Tompkins County, New York
Groton is a village of 2,145 people in Tompkins County. Half its households earn more than $60,114 a year and half less, against $74,024 across Tompkins County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 64% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 36% are rented. Unemployment in Tompkins County was 4.2% 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Groton is a village in Tompkins County, small enough that neighbors tend to know one another. Residents are older on average than in much of the country, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run below the county's, and winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month and July the warmest, when days turn comfortably warm.
Work. People who live here work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, professional and business services, and manufacturing also employing many. Across Tompkins County, the biggest workplaces include Cornell University, Cayuga Medical Center at Ithaca and Ithaca College. The typical commute is a fairly short drive, and some work from home. The county has seen slightly fewer jobs than a year earlier, and unemployment there is close to where it stood a year ago.
Things to do. A short drive brings you to Webster Brook and Beaver Creek, small rivers good for a quiet walk along the water. A longer drive reaches Seneca Lake and Cayuga Lake, both large lakes. Also a longer drive away is the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, for a rainy or snowy day indoors.
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- 879households
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Tompkins County had 47,711 jobs in 2025, 0.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 30° and lows near 12°; warmest in July, with highs near 79° and lows near 58°. About 64 inches of snow and 39 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Freeville Northeast weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Tompkins County
- Cornell UniversityUniversity or college12,363
- Cayuga Medical Center at IthacaGeneral hospital1,512FTE
- Ithaca CollegeUniversity or college1,344
- Ithaca City School DistrictSchool district1,070FTE
- Borgwarner IthacaTiming gears and chains, automotive and truck gasoline engine, manufacturing900
- Wegmans Food MarketsRetail supermarkets515
- Tompkins Cortland Community CollegeTwo-year college357
- Dryden Central School DistrictSchool district313FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 54 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 6,504 people in all across the county; Groton has two of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) 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 moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Groton’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 Tompkins County and the Ithaca, NY metro.
Groton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Groton13
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
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Zip codes with a Groton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Groton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.