Millerton, New York.
Typical home $488,126 (+7.6% in a year). Poughkeepsie-Newburgh-Middletown, NY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,550 (+153%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $34,479 +8%
- $453,647$488,126 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $123,870 +34%
- $364,256$488,126 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.
- Millerton$2,562
- 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 Millerton, NY rose 7.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Millerton, Dutchess County, New York
Millerton is a village of 903 people in Dutchess County. Half its households earn more than $83,090 a year and half less, against $99,478 across Dutchess County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Millerton is a small village in Dutchess County, close to the Connecticut and Massachusetts lines. Household incomes here are lower than across the county, while the typical home value is high. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest and a good deal of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in 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. Unemployment across the county has edged up a little over the past year, while the county has gained jobs.
Things to do. A short drive away are Lime Rock Park, a race track, and Lake Wononscopomuc, a lake. Mount Riga State Park, a protected area for hiking and open air, is also a short drive away. For a longer outing, the Norman Rockwell Museum is a longer drive away.
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- 10%below the poverty line
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 35° and lows near 14°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 58°. About 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Falls Village weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Dutchess County
- Vassar Brothers Medical CenterGeneral hospital2,423FTE
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage2,382
- Dutchess County GovernmentExecutive offices, federal, state, and local1,787
- Wappingers Central School DistrictSchool district1,737FTE
- Arlington Central School DistrictSchool district1,519FTE
- Marist CollegeUniversity or college1,244
- Vassar CollegeUniversity or college1,227
- Bard CollegeUniversity or college1,046
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 190 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 29,290 people in all across the county; Millerton has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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 high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Millerton’s census tracts, 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 Dutchess County and the Poughkeepsie-Newburgh-Middletown, NY metro.
Millerton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Millerton$488,126
- 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.
- Millerton15
Zip codes with a Millerton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Millerton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.