Highland, New York.
Typical home $435,966 (+4.2% in a year), asking rent $1,986 . Kingston, NY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,369 (+149%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $17,556 +4%
- $418,410$435,966 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $115,654 +36%
- $320,312$435,966 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.
- Highland$2,288
- 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 Highland, NY rose 4.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Highland, Ulster County, New York
Highland, in Ulster County, had 6,385 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Highland is a small community in Ulster County, on the west side of the Hudson River. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest. The year brings a good deal of rain and melted snow. Adults here are well educated, with a four-year degree common among them, and the typical commute is a fairly long one, so many residents travel some distance for work.
Work. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by professional and business services, shops, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Within Highland itself, Hannaford, tractor Supply Company Store and a skilled nursing facility are among the largest workplaces. Unemployment across Ulster County has stayed close to where it was a year ago, and the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Franny Reese State Park and the Maritje Kill are in or beside town, for walking and time by the water. A short drive away are the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum and the Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site, both museums, along with Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site, a protected area. For a longer outing, Dia Beacon, a museum, is a longer drive away.
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- 2,611households
- 50%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
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 35° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 63°. About 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Poughkeepsie weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Highland
- HannafordGrocery stores151
- Ul-ul-ulsterSkilled nursing145
- HighlandMail and parcel delivery30
- Tractor Supply Company StoreGeneral merchandise stores21
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 347 people in all. 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 high
- LightningRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively 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 Highland’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 Ulster County and the Kingston, NY metro.
Highland home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Highland$435,966
- New York$524,942
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Highland listings — the market is cooling.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Highland22.46%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Highland52
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Highland12
Zip codes with a Highland address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Highland — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.