Mendon, New York.
Typical home $475,020 (+4.9% in a year). Rochester, NY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$384 (+18%) since Jan 2024.
- 1 year
- Up $22,149 +5%
- $452,871$475,020 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.
- Mendon$2,493
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Mendon, NY rose 4.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Mendon, Monroe County, New York
Mendon is a town of 9,095 people in Monroe County. Half its households earn more than $131,778 a year and half less, against $76,382 across Monroe County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 80% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 20% are rented. Unemployment in Monroe County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 1.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Mendon is a small town in Monroe County where most homes are lived in by their owners, and the share of owners is higher than across the county. Household incomes run well above the county's, fewer people live below the poverty line than in the county as a whole, and a large majority of adults hold a four-year degree. The population is somewhat older than in many places, and winters are cold, with February the coldest month, while July is pleasantly warm.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in manufacturing and in shops. The largest workplaces in Mendon include the Honeoye Falls-Lima Central School District, the Southco rivet and fastener plant, and Episcopal SeniorLife Communities. Commutes are fairly long, and a good number of people work from home. Across Monroe County, jobs grew modestly last year.
Things to do. Irondequoit Creek, a river, and Ganondagan State Historic Site, an archaeological site, both lie a short drive away. For a longer outing, Canandaigua Lake and Honeoye Lake are both within a longer drive, and the George Eastman Museum, one of the best known museums of photography, is a longer drive as well.
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- 3,412households
- 63%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 24%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Monroe County had 386,911 jobs in 2025, 1.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in February, with highs near 37° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 61°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Victor 2NW weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Mendon
- Honeoye Falls-lima Central School DistrictSchool district420FTE
- Southco, Inc. at Honeoye Falls LocationRivets, metal, manufacturing266
- MicroResistors, electronic, manufacturing85
- RicarGrocery stores79
- Han-TekAerial work platforms manufacturing57
- Episcopal SeniorLife CommunitiesSenior citizens' homes without nursing care45
- EquiCenterPhysical-integration practitioners' offices41
- K&H Precision ProductsFoundries, aluminum31
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 7 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 604 people in all. School districts come 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Monroe County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Monroe County and the Rochester, NY metro.
Mendon home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Mendon$475,020
- 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 Mendon address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mendon — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.