Hornell, New York.
Typical home $115,939 (-1.7% in a year). Corning, NY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$277 (+83%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $1,985 -2%
- $117,924$115,939 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $7,911 +7%
- $108,029$115,939 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.
- Hornell$609
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 49 years.
Typical home values in Hornell, NY fell 1.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hornell, Steuben County, New York
Hornell is a city of 8,263 people in Steuben County. Half its households earn more than $47,385 a year and half less, against $65,887 across Steuben County; 23% of its people live below the poverty line. 49% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 51% are rented. Unemployment in Steuben County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hornell is a small city in Steuben County, with a median age a little older than the country as a whole. Incomes run well below the county's, and a larger share of residents live below the poverty line than most would expect, while homes are fairly evenly split between owners and renters. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm without being hot.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, professional and business services, and manufacturing. Among the largest workplaces in Hornell are Wegmans Food Markets, Walmart and Maple City Rehab & Nursing. Unemployment across Steuben County is slightly higher than a year ago, and the county has a few fewer jobs than it did the year before. Commutes are short, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Almond Lake, a reservoir in or beside town, is the closest place to get out on the water. The Schein–Joseph International Museum of Ceramic Art is a museum of ceramics a short drive away. A longer drive leads to Letchworth State Park, a large protected area, and to Keuka Lake.
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- 3,813households
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 23%below the poverty line
- 17 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Steuben County had 34,483 jobs in 2025, 0.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 30° and lows near 12°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 54°. About 62 inches of snow and 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hornell Almond Dam weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hornell
- Wegmans Food MarketsRetail supermarkets267
- WalmartDiscount department stores222
- Maple City Rehab & NursingSkilled nursing facilities164
- Lowe's Companies, INCHomecenter111
- HornellMail and parcel delivery32
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 796 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
- LightningRelatively 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 Hornell’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 Steuben County and the Corning, NY metro.
Hornell home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hornell$115,939
- New York$524,942
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Hornell listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Hornell21.08%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Hornell26
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Hornell10
Zip codes with a Hornell address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hornell — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.