Katonah, New York.
Typical home $1,155,192 (+10.7% in a year). New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$3,410 (+129%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $112,100 +11%
- $1,043,092$1,155,192 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $312,711 +37%
- $842,481$1,155,192 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.
- Katonah$6,063
- 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 Katonah, NY rose 10.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Katonah, Westchester County, New York
Katonah, in Westchester County, had 1,603 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Westchester County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Westchester 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Katonah is a small community in Westchester County, home to far fewer people than most towns of any size. Adults here are far more likely to hold a four-year degree than adults across the country, and homes are valued well above what is typical in the county. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while July is the warmest and stays comfortably warm rather than hot.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by professional and business services, banks, insurance and property, and shops. Across Westchester County, some of the largest workplaces are Westchester Medical Center, PepsiCo and White Plains Hospital. Commutes run longer than many people face, and a good number of residents work from home instead.
Things to do. Right in or beside town, the Cross River Reservoir and Muscoot Reservoir offer quiet water and shoreline, and the Cross River runs nearby. A short drive away is the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, along with Donald J. Trump State Park, a protected area for walking. For a longer outing, the New York Botanical Garden and the Bronx Zoo are a longer drive away.
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- 710households
- 77%of adults have a degree
- 34 mintypical commute
- 29%work from home
What people in Westchester County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Westchester County had 433,070 jobs in 2025, 0.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 36° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 61°. About 40 inches of snow and 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Yorktown Hts 1W weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Westchester County
- Westchester Medical CenterGeneral hospital4,340FTE
- Yonkers City School DistrictSchool district3,450FTE
- PepsiCoOffice administrative services3,117
- White Plains HospitalGeneral hospital2,984FTE
- A&A MaintenanceJanitorial services2,750
- St. Johns Riverside HospitalGeneral hospital1,819FTE
- Phelps Memorial Hospital CenterGeneral hospital1,796FTE
- Northern Westchester HospitalGeneral hospital1,720FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 483 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 79,918 people in all across the county; Katonah has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts from the Common Core of Data (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
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively 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 Katonah’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 Westchester County and the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
Katonah home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Katonah$1,155,192
- New York$524,942
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 11 Katonah 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.
- Katonah9.25%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Katonah24
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Katonah8
Zip codes with a Katonah address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Katonah — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.