Hawthorne, New York.
Typical home $829,294 (+3.6% in a year). New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,167 (+99%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $28,794 +4%
- $800,500$829,294 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $166,324 +25%
- $662,970$829,294 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.
- Hawthorne$4,353
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Hawthorne, NY rose 3.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hawthorne, Westchester County, New York
Hawthorne, in Westchester County, had 4,646 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $140,856 a year and half less, against $118,976 across Westchester County; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. 89% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 11% are rented. Unemployment in Westchester County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hawthorne is a small community in Westchester County where nearly all homes are lived in by their owners, a much higher share than across the county. Household incomes are above the county's, and relatively few residents live below the poverty line. Most adults hold a four-year degree, and the typical home value is high.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by professional and business services, banks, insurance and property, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Among the largest workplaces in Hawthorne are the Hawthorne-Cedar Knolls Union Free School District, Brightview, a landscaping company, and Candela Systems, an electrical contractor. Commutes are fairly typical, and some residents work from home.
Things to do. The Bronx River runs in or beside town and is the closest bit of nature on the list. A longer drive brings the Bronx Zoo and Central Park, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art is among the best known of the museums within a longer drive. Winters here are cold and summers warm, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow through the year.
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- 1,657households
- 62%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 18%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Westchester County had 433,070 jobs in 2025, 0.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 37° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 65°. About 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Westchester County Airport weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hawthorne
- GianfiaUtility line, construction250
- Hawthorne-cedar Knolls Union Free School DistrictSchool district106FTE
- BrightviewLandscaping services89
- Candela SystemsElectrical contractors34
- Culbertson Restoration of New YorkChimney, concrete, construction32
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 405 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
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively 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 Hawthorne’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 Westchester County and the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
Hawthorne home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hawthorne$829,294
- 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.
- Hawthorne10
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Hawthorne address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hawthorne — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.