High Falls, New York.
Typical home $518,378 (+4.3% in a year). Kingston, NY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,679 (+161%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $21,537 +4%
- $496,841$518,378 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $119,441 +30%
- $398,937$518,378 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.
- High Falls$2,721
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in High Falls, NY rose 4.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in High Falls, Ulster County, New York
High Falls, in Ulster County, had 700 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Ulster County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 2.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Ulster County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. High Falls is a very small community in Ulster County, the kind of place where residents tend to know one another. Homes here are valued well above what is typical across the country, and the county's household incomes sit at a middling level for the region. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while July brings warm summer days.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with professional and business services, shops, and restaurants and hotels also employing many. Across Ulster County, the largest workplaces include the State University of New York at New Paltz, the Kingston City School District and Healthalliance Hospital Marys Ave. Unemployment in the county is about where it stood a year ago, and the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. The Rosendale Theatre is in or beside town, making it the easiest outing. A short drive away are Lake Mohonk, a lake, and the Ashokan Reservoir, both good for time by the water, and Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site, a protected area with a grand historic house. For a longer drive, the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum is among the best known museums in the region.
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What people in Ulster County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Ulster County had 60,554 jobs in 2025, 2.1% more 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 83° and lows near 64°. About 59 inches of snow and 53 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mohonk Lake weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Ulster County
- State University of New York at New PaltzUniversity or college1,315
- Kingston City School DistrictSchool district1,145FTE
- Healthalliance Hospital Marys AVEGeneral hospital755FTE
- Smiley BrothersAlpine skiing facilities with accommodations670
- Wallkill Central School DistrictSchool district442FTE
- Saugerties Central School DistrictSchool district415FTE
- New Paltz Central School DistrictSchool district395FTE
- Rondout Valley Central School DistrictSchool district393FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 105 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 10,598 people in all across the county; High Falls has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts from the Common Core of Data (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
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in High Falls’ 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 Ulster County and the Kingston, NY metro.
High Falls home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- High Falls$518,378
- 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.
- High Falls8
Zip codes with a High Falls address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls High Falls — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.