Kendall, New York.
. Rochester, NY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,478 (+116%) since Jan 2020.
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.
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
Living in Kendall, Orleans County, New York
Kendall is a town of 2,617 people in Orleans County. Half its households earn more than $87,734 a year and half less, against $65,969 across Orleans County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. 88% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 12% are rented. Unemployment in Orleans County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Kendall is a small town in Orleans County, and nearly everyone who lives there owns their home. Household incomes run well above the county's, and fewer people live below the poverty line than you might expect. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers are warm without getting extreme, and precipitation falls fairly evenly through the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, restaurants and hotels, and professional and business services also employing many. Across Orleans County, the largest workplaces include Baxter Healthcare Medina, the Medina Central School District and Medina Memorial Hospital. Jobs across the county slipped slightly last year, and unemployment is unchanged from a year earlier. A typical commute is fairly long, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. Hamlin Beach State Park and Lakeside Beach State Park are both protected shoreline areas a short drive away, and Oak Orchard Creek is a river close by for time on the water. For a longer outing, the George Eastman Museum and the Memorial Art Gallery are both museums a longer drive away.
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- 1,013households
- 23%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Orleans County had 11,445 jobs in 2025, 0.4% fewer 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 80° and lows near 62°. About 36 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Brockport weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Orleans County
- Baxter Healthcare MedinaIv apparatus manufacturing400
- Medina Central School DistrictSchool district310FTE
- Medina Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital274FTE
- Albion Central School DistrictSchool district263FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters224
- BrunnerBrake pads and shoes, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing218
- TakeformSigns and signboards manufacturing209
- Holley Central School DistrictSchool district207FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 27 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,657 people in all across the county; Kendall has two of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (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
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Orleans County, 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 Orleans County and the Rochester, NY metro.
Kendall home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
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Zip codes with a Kendall address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Kendall — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.