Hamlin, New York.
Typical home $251,591 (+4.7% in a year). Rochester, NY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$178 (+16%) since Jan 2024.
- 1 year
- Up $11,358 +5%
- $240,232$251,591 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.
- Hamlin$1,321
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Hamlin, NY rose 4.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hamlin, Monroe County, New York
Hamlin, in Monroe County, had 5,177 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $73,314 a year and half less, against $76,382 across Monroe County; 15% of its people live below the poverty line. 85% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 15% are rented. Unemployment in Monroe County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 1.2% more 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hamlin is a small community in Monroe County where nearly everyone lives in a home they own. Household incomes run a little below the county's, and a somewhat larger share of residents live below the poverty line than you might expect for an owner-occupied town. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, summers are warm, and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and professional and business services also employing a good number. Across Monroe County, some of the largest workplaces are Strong Memorial Hospital, the University of Rochester and Rochester Institute of Technology. Commutes are fairly long, and a modest share of people work from home.
Things to do. Hamlin Beach State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away and is the closest place on the list. A longer drive brings you to the George Eastman Museum, a museum, and to High Falls, a waterfall. Seneca Park Zoo is also a longer drive away, for a day out with family.
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- 2,062households
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Monroe County had 386,911 jobs in 2025, 1.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 33° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 62°. About 36 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Brockport weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Monroe County
- Strong Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital12,572FTE
- University of RochesterUniversity or college10,611
- Rochester City School DistrictSchool district4,757FTE
- Lewis Tree ServiceTree and brush trimming, overhead utility line4,751
- Rochester Institute of TechnologyUniversity or college4,306
- Rochester General HospitalGeneral hospital3,361FTE
- Wegmans Market StCorporate managing offices3,358
- THE Unity Hospital of RochesterGeneral hospital3,170FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 644 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 109,514 people in all across the county; Hamlin 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
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively 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 Hamlin’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 Monroe County and the Rochester, NY metro.
Hamlin home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hamlin$251,591
- 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.
- Hamlin12
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Hamlin9
Zip codes with a Hamlin address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hamlin — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.