Millbrook, New York.
Typical home $704,233 (+5.6% in a year). Poughkeepsie-Newburgh-Middletown, NY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,179 (+144%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $37,097 +6%
- $667,136$704,233 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $181,456 +35%
- $522,777$704,233 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.
- Millbrook$3,696
- 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 Millbrook, NY rose 5.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Millbrook, Dutchess County, New York
Millbrook is a village of 1,455 people in Dutchess County. Unemployment in Dutchess County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 3.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Dutchess County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Millbrook is a small village in Dutchess County, and its residents are older than in most places, with many people well past middle age. Incomes in the town are not far off the county's, though a noticeable number of households live below the poverty line, and homes here are valued well above what is typical for much of the country. Adults here are more likely to hold a four-year degree than in most places. Winters are cold, with January days staying close to freezing and nights well below it, while July is warm, and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents mostly work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by professional and business services, shops, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Dutchess County, some of the largest workplaces are Vassar Brothers Medical Center, Dutchess County Government and Marist College. The typical commute is a moderate one, and a fair number of people work from home. Unemployment across the county is a little higher than a year ago, though the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. The Mary Flagler Cary Arboretum, a botanical garden, lies in or beside town, and Innisfree Garden, another botanical garden, is a short drive away. James Baird State Park, a protected area, is also a short drive away. For a longer outing, the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum is a longer drive away.
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- 706households
- 50%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 14%work from home
What people in Dutchess County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Dutchess County had 116,699 jobs in 2025, 3.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 34° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 59°. About 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Millbrook West weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Millbrook
- Millbrook Central School DistrictSchool district154FTE
- Alden Place ElementarySchool districts, elementary or secondary41
- Elm Drive ElementarySchool districts, elementary or secondary41
- Cardinal Hayes HomeIntellectual and developmental disability homes26
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 208 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
FEMA rates every natural hazard here relatively low or very low.
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Millbrook’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 Dutchess County and the Poughkeepsie-Newburgh-Middletown, NY metro.
Millbrook home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Millbrook$704,233
- New York$524,942
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Millbrook 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.
- Millbrook18.57%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Millbrook24
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Millbrook address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Millbrook — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.