Minoa, New York.
Typical home $270,801 (+6.3% in a year). Syracuse, NY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$887 (+166%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $16,068 +6%
- $254,733$270,801 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $95,193 +54%
- $175,608$270,801 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.
- Minoa$1,421
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 8 years.
Typical home values in Minoa, NY rose 6.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Minoa, Onondaga County, New York
Minoa is a village of 3,657 people in Onondaga County. Half its households earn more than $95,506 a year and half less, against $76,945 across Onondaga County; 4% of its people live below the poverty line. 84% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 16% are rented. Unemployment in Onondaga County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 2.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Onondaga 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Minoa is a village outside Syracuse, and most of its homes are lived in by their owners, a larger share than is typical across the country. Household incomes run well above the county's, and relatively few residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold and very snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers are warm in July and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, with professional and business services, shops and manufacturing also employing many. Across Onondaga County, the largest workplaces include University Hospital at Syracuse, Syracuse University and Amazon. Commutes are fairly short, and a good number of residents work from home.
Things to do. Green Lakes State Park, a protected area with a lake of its own, sits in or beside town, as do Butternut Creek and Limestone Creek. The JMA Wireless Dome, a stadium, is a short drive away. Oneida Lake is a longer drive away.
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- 1,471households
- 4%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 14%work from home
What people in Onondaga County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Onondaga County had 250,251 jobs in 2025, 2.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 62°. About 128 inches of snow and 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Syracuse Hancock International Airport weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Onondaga County
- University Hospital at SyracuseGeneral hospital5,937FTE
- Syracuse UniversityUniversity or college5,913
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage4,252
- Syracuse City School DistrictSchool district3,988FTE
- St. Josephs Hospital Health CenterGeneral hospital2,546FTE
- Lockheed Martin Corporation US NY Syracuse Electroncs Pkwy (1021)Aeronautical systems and instruments manufacturing2,478
- Crouse HospitalGeneral hospital2,233FTE
- Upstate Medical UniversityUniversity or college1,766
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 523 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 70,333 people in all across the county; Minoa has two of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Minoa’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 Onondaga County and the Syracuse, NY metro.
Minoa home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Minoa$270,801
- 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.
- Minoa8
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Minoa address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Minoa — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.