Interlaken, New York.
Typical home $254,139 (+5.1% in a year). Seneca Falls, NY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$772 (+137%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,279 +5%
- $241,861$254,139 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $59,093 +30%
- $195,046$254,139 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.
- Interlaken$1,334
- 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 Interlaken, NY rose 5.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Interlaken, Seneca County, New York
Interlaken is a village of 595 people in Seneca County. Half its households earn more than $59,028 a year and half less, against $68,089 across Seneca County; 11% of its people live below the poverty line. 65% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 35% are rented. Unemployment in Seneca County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% more 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Interlaken is a very small village in Seneca County, in the Finger Lakes region of New York. Residents tend to be somewhat older than the typical American, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run below the county's, and a four-year degree is held by a sizable part of the adult population. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and plenty of snow, while summers are pleasantly warm and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, manufacturing, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment also employing many. Across Seneca County, the largest workplaces include del Lago Resort & Casino, the Waterloo Central School District and the Seneca Falls Central School District. The typical commute is a moderate one, and some people work from home. Unemployment across the county is low and has changed very little over the past year.
Things to do. Seneca Lake and Cayuga Lake are both a short drive away, and Taughannock Falls State Park, a protected area, is also close by. Bergen Creek runs in or beside town for a quiet walk near home. Watkins Glen International, the race track, is a longer drive away.
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- 243households
- 40%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Seneca County had 10,339 jobs in 2025, 0.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 31° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 61°. About 56 inches of snow and 37 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Aurora Rsch Farm weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Seneca County
- del Lago Resort & CasinoHotels, resort, with casinos686
- Waterloo Central School DistrictSchool district356FTE
- Seneca Falls Central School DistrictSchool district283FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters278
- South Seneca Central School DistrictSchool district196FTE
- Earl T. WadhamsTrucking, general freight, long-distance, truckload189
- Northeast College of Health SciencesUniversity or college185
- Bhb Seneca FallsDental laboratories156
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 22 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,652 people in all across the county; Interlaken has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Interlaken’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 Seneca County and the Seneca Falls, NY metro.
Interlaken home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Interlaken$254,139
- 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.
- Interlaken6
Zip codes with a Interlaken address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Interlaken — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.