Limestone, New York.
Typical home $120,801 (+11.8% in a year). Olean, NY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$381 (+151%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,791 +12%
- $108,010$120,801 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $34,434 +40%
- $86,367$120,801 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.
- Limestone$634
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Limestone, NY rose 11.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Limestone, Cattaraugus County, New York
Limestone, in Cattaraugus County, had 358 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Cattaraugus County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 1.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Cattaraugus County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Limestone is a very small community in Cattaraugus County, in the hills of western New York, where homes cost far less than in most of the country. Few adults here hold a four-year degree, and relatively few people work from home. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and the year brings plenty of rain and melted snow; July is the warmest month, with mild summer days.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment also providing jobs. Across Cattaraugus County, the largest workplaces include Upper Allegheny Health System, Cutco and St Bonaventure University. The county added a few more jobs last year than the year before, and unemployment there is unchanged from a year ago.
Things to do. Allegany State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away, and Red House Lake, also a short drive away, is a place for time on the water. Closer to home, Limestone Brook, Bailley Brook and Irish Brook run in or beside town. Kinzua Bridge State Park, a protected area, is a longer drive away.
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- 11%of adults have a degree
- 5%work from home
What people in Cattaraugus County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Cattaraugus County had 28,122 jobs in 2025, 1.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 79° and lows near 56°. About 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Allegany Sp weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Cattaraugus County
- Upper Allegheny Health SystemGeneral hospital900FTE
- CutcoCutlery, nonprecious and precious plated metal, manufacturing653
- St Bonaventure UniversityUniversity or college606
- Great Lakes Cheese - FranklinvilleCheese, imitation or substitute, manufacturing513
- Yorkshire-pioneer Central School DistrictSchool district508FTE
- Salamanca City School DistrictSchool district411FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters411
- Olean City School DistrictSchool district407FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 54 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,325 people in all across the county; Limestone has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Limestone’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 Cattaraugus County and the Olean, NY metro.
Limestone home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Limestone$120,801
- 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.
Zip codes with a Limestone address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Limestone — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.