Kinderhook, New York.
Typical home $485,568 (+6.5% in a year). Hudson, NY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$413 (+19%) since Jan 2024.
- 1 year
- Up $29,742 +7%
- $455,826$485,568 since Sep 2025
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.
- Kinderhook$2,549
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Kinderhook, NY rose 6.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Kinderhook, Columbia County, New York
Kinderhook is a village of 1,170 people in Columbia County. 78% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 22% are rented. Unemployment in Columbia County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then government.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Kinderhook is a small village in Columbia County, where most homes are lived in by their owners and a four-year degree is common among adults. Poverty is lower than in many places, and typical home values run high. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and freezing nights, summers are warm, and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by government, shops and professional and business services. Across Columbia County, some of the largest workplaces are Columbia Memorial Hospital and the Kinderhook Central School District. Commutes are fairly short, and a good number of people work from home.
Things to do. The Martin Van Buren National Historic Site, a protected area, is in or beside town. A short drive away are Kinderhook Creek and Claverack Creek, both good places to be near running water. For a longer outing, Olana State Historic Site is a museum a longer drive away.
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- 535households
- 49%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 26%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Columbia County had 20,909 jobs in 2025, 0.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 34° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 62°. About 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Valatie North weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Columbia County
- Columbia Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital1,036FTE
- Kinderhook Central School DistrictSchool district332FTE
- Hudson City School DistrictSchool district316FTE
- Pine Haven Nursing & Rehabilitation CenterLong term health care300
- Chatham Central School DistrictSchool district275FTE
- Taconic Hills Central School DistrictSchool district254FTE
- Ginsberg's Foods HudsonGeneral-line groceries merchant wholesalers250
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters244
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 37 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,298 people in all across the county; Kinderhook has one 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
- 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 Kinderhook’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 Columbia County and the Hudson, NY metro.
Kinderhook home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Kinderhook$485,568
- 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.
- Kinderhook15
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Kinderhook address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Kinderhook — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.