Marion, New York.
Typical home $255,954 (+7.9% in a year). Rochester, NY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$800 (+147%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $18,847 +8%
- $237,106$255,954 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $72,176 +39%
- $183,777$255,954 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.
- Marion$1,343
- 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 Marion, NY rose 7.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Marion, Wayne County, New York
Marion, in Wayne County, had 1,432 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Wayne County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 1.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Wayne 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Marion is a small community in Wayne County, New York, where winters are cold and snowy and summers are pleasantly warm. January is the coldest month, with highs just below freezing and lows well under it, and the snowfall is heavy, more than in most of the country. Rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the year. Homes here are typically valued below what is common across much of the country, and the share of adults with a four-year degree is small.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and professional and business services also employing many. Across Wayne County, some of the largest workplaces are Newark Wayne Community Hospital, the Newark Central School District and Enpro Industries, which makes gaskets and sealing devices. The typical commute is a moderate one, and very few people work from home. Unemployment in the county is steady compared with a year earlier, and the county has gained jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Everything on the nearby list is a longer drive away, so outings here are day trips. Canandaigua Lake is one of the larger lakes of the region, good for a day by the water. Chimney Bluffs State Park is a protected shoreline area for walking and views. For museums, the George Eastman Museum is a well-known museum of photography and film, and The National Museum of Play is a museum dedicated to toys and games. Each of these is a longer drive away.
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- 739households
- 12%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What people in Wayne County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Wayne County had 28,770 jobs in 2025, 1.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 31° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 79° and lows near 59°. About 105 inches of snow and 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Sodus 1W weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Wayne County
- NY - Williamson - 4363 Route 104 - MottsFruit and vegetable canning542
- Newark Wayne Community HospitalGeneral hospital518FTE
- ConstellationElectric power generation, nuclear507
- Newark Central School DistrictSchool district466FTE
- Wayne Central School DistrictSchool district458FTE
- Enpro IndustriesGasket, packing, and sealing devices manufacturing440
- Optimax SystemsLenses manufacturing430
- ABX Innovative Packaging Solutions;Food storage bags, plastics film, single wall or multiwall, manufacturing379
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 67 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 8,252 people in all across the county; Marion has two 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
- HailRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Marion’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 Wayne County and the Rochester, NY metro.
Marion home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Marion$255,954
- 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.
- Marion10
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Marion6
Zip codes with a Marion address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Marion — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.