Medina, New York.
Typical home $188,406 (+8.2% in a year). Rochester, NY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$597 (+152%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,337 +8%
- $174,068$188,406 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $47,056 +33%
- $141,350$188,406 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.
- Medina$989
- 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 Medina, NY rose 8.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Medina, Orleans County, New York
Medina is a village of 6,047 people in Orleans County. 57% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 43% are rented. Unemployment in Orleans County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Medina is a village in Orleans County, western New York, with a population that sits near the middle in age. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and typical home values are modest. Winters are cold and very snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers are warm in July and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and government also employing a good number. The largest workplaces in Medina include Baxter Healthcare Medina, Medina Memorial Hospital and Takeform. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than is typical, and commutes are of moderate length.
Things to do. In or beside town, the Medina Railroad Museum and Bent's Opera House, a theatre, are the places closest to hand. A short drive away is Iroquois National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area. Farther out, Hamlin Beach State Park is a longer drive away and suits a day by the lake.
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- 2,580households
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Orleans County had 11,445 jobs in 2025, 0.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 33° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 62°. About 67 inches of snow and 35 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Albion weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Medina
- Baxter Healthcare MedinaIv apparatus manufacturing400
- Medina Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital274FTE
- TakeformSigns and signboards manufacturing209
- Orchard Rehab and Nursing CenterNursing homes160
- Tops MarketsGrocery stores82
- M&M ManufacturingDucts, sheet metal, manufacturing52
- Hinspergers Poly IndustriesAwnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing40
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 943 people in all. Hospitals come 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
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Medina’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 Orleans County and the Rochester, NY metro.
Medina home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Medina$188,406
- New York$524,942
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Medina 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.
- Medina17.29%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Medina25
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Medina12
Zip codes with a Medina address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Medina — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.