Himrod, New York.
Typical home $412,341 (+11.5% in a year). Rochester, NY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,314 (+154%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $42,386 +11%
- $369,955$412,341 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $119,373 +41%
- $292,969$412,341 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.
- Himrod$2,164
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Himrod, NY rose 11.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Himrod, Yates County, New York
The Census does not count Himrod on its own, so the figures here are Yates County's. Half the county's households earn more than $69,701 a year and half less; 13% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 77% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 23% are rented. Unemployment in Yates County was 2.9% in August 2026, and the county had 3.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Yates County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Himrod is a small community in Yates County, in the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York. The county's residents are older on average than most of the country, and more of them own the homes they live in than across the nation. Many households have lived here for a long time, and the county's quiet pace suits people who value a settled, neighborly setting.
Work. Across Yates County, most working people are employed in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, shops and the building trades. The county gained jobs over the past year, and fewer people are out of work than a year earlier. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than across the country, and fewer people work from home than in many places, while commutes tend to be shorter than the national norm.
Things to do. Seneca Lake is a lake a short drive away, and Lodi Point State Park, a protected area, is also close by. For a longer outing, Watkins Glen International is a race track a longer drive away. Winters here are colder than most of the country, with snow and rain spread across the year, so the warmer months are the most popular time to visit the lakes and parks.
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- 9,490households
- 42.5median age
- 26%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 13%work from home
What people in Yates County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Yates County had 7,296 jobs in 2025, 3.8% 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 81° and lows near 62°. About 30 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Penn Yan Airport weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Yates County
- Penn YAN Central School DistrictSchool district329FTE
- Keuka CollegeUniversity or college287
- KANPAK Manufacturing Penn YanFrozen desserts manufacturing275
- Coach and Equipment ManufacturingTransmissions and parts, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing181
- Dundee Central School DistrictSchool district174FTE
- Soldiers & Sailors Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital162FTE
- Silgan PlasticsAwnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing160
- Vibrantz Technologies Penn YanRare earth compounds, not specified elsewhere by process, manufacturing108
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 12 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,349 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (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
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Yates County, 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 Yates County and the Rochester, NY metro.
Himrod home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Himrod$412,341
- 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.
Zip codes with a Himrod address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Himrod — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.