Kirkville, New York.
Typical home $272,813 (+6.0% in a year). Syracuse, NY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$246 (+21%) since Jan 2024.
- 1 year
- Up $15,472 +6%
- $257,341$272,813 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.
- Kirkville$1,432
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Kirkville, NY rose 6.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Kirkville, Madison County, New York
The Census does not count Kirkville on its own, so the figures here are Madison County's. Half the county's households earn more than $75,499 a year and half less; 10% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 78% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 22% are rented. Unemployment in Madison County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Madison County work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Kirkville is a town in Madison County, in the central part of New York State. Across the county, most homes are lived in by their owners, and the median age of residents is middle-aged, with a fair share of people living below the poverty line. Winters are colder and snowier than in most of the country, with heavy snowfall, while summers are warm and the year is fairly wet.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing, or in professional and business services. Unemployment across the county has stayed low over the past year, although the number of jobs dipped slightly. Working from home is less common than going out to a job, and fewer adults hold a college degree than do not.
Things to do. Oneida Lake, one of the best known lakes in the area, is a short drive away. Green Lakes State Park, a protected area, is also a short drive away, and Limestone Creek runs in or beside the town itself. The JMA Wireless Dome, a stadium, is a longer drive away.
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- 26,252households
- 42.4median age
- 30%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What people in Madison County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Madison County had 20,808 jobs in 2025, 0.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 62°. About 128 inches of snow and 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Syracuse Hancock International Airport weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Madison County
- Colgate UniversityUniversity or college1,120
- Oneida HealthGeneral hospital779FTE
- SUNY MorrisvilleUniversity or college515
- Chittenango Central School DistrictSchool district389FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters351
- Oneida City School DistrictSchool district350FTE
- Knowles CazenoviaMicrowave components manufacturing297
- HP Hood LLC - Oneida PlantMilk, ultra-high temperature, manufacturing261
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 40 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,490 people in all. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals 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
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Madison County, 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 Madison County and the Syracuse, NY metro.
Kirkville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Kirkville$272,813
- 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.
- Kirkville6
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Kirkville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Kirkville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.