Lewiston, New York.
Typical home $346,554 (+3.5% in a year). Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,043 (+134%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,559 +3%
- $334,995$346,554 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $85,853 +33%
- $260,701$346,554 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.
- Lewiston$1,819
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Lewiston, NY rose 3.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lewiston, Niagara County, New York
Lewiston is a village of 2,531 people in Niagara County. 60% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 40% are rented. Unemployment in Niagara County was 4.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Niagara County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Lewiston is a small village on the Niagara River, one of the smaller places in Niagara County. Most homes are lived in by their owners, though renters are a real part of the village too, and the typical home is worth more than many would guess for a place this size. A good share of adults hold a four-year degree, and the winters are cold and snowy, with a lot of snow each year and a warm, comfortable stretch in summer.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, shops and professional and business services. Across Niagara County, some of the largest workplaces are Niagara University, Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center and Olin Corporation's Niagara Falls Operations. The typical commute is moderate, and only a small number of people work from home.
Things to do. Niagara Falls is a short drive away, and so are Niagara Falls State Park and Prospect Point Park's observation tower, which give views of the falls and the gorge. Fort Niagara, an old fort on the water, is also a short drive away. For an art museum, the Buffalo AKG Art Museum is a longer drive.
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- 1,333households
- 45%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What people in Niagara County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Niagara County had 68,617 jobs in 2025, 0.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 34° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 62°. About 55 inches of snow and 34 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Youngstown East weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Niagara County
- General Motors Lockport ComponentsRadiators and cores manufacturing1,580
- Niagara Falls City School DistrictSchool district1,223FTE
- Niagara UniversityUniversity or college854
- Niagara Falls Memorial Medical CenteGeneral hospital779FTE
- Mount St. Marys HospitalGeneral hospital680FTE
- Lockport City School DistrictSchool district657FTE
- Niagara-wheatfield Central School DistrictSchool district592FTE
- North Tonawanda City School DistrictSchool district567FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 168 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 15,890 people in all across the county; Lewiston has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (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 in Lewiston’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 Niagara County and the Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY metro.
Lewiston home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lewiston$346,554
- New York$524,942
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Lewiston 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.
- Lewiston33.07%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Lewiston40
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Lewiston15
Zip codes with a Lewiston address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lewiston — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.