Nassau, New York.
. Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,478 (+116%) since Jan 2020.
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.
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
Living in Nassau, Rensselaer County, New York
Nassau is a village of 1,103 people in Rensselaer County. 62% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 38% are rented. Unemployment in Rensselaer County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Nassau is a small village in Rensselaer County, home to a modest number of people at the last full count. Residents are somewhat older than in the country as a whole, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Fewer residents fall below the poverty line than you might expect, and a fair share of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and temperatures that stay below freezing through the day, while summers are warm and a good deal of rain and melted snow falls over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by the building trades, shops, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Rensselaer County, some of the largest workplaces are Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Samaritan Hospital and Hudson Valley Community College. Unemployment across the county is close to where it stood a year ago, and the county has a few fewer jobs than it did the year before. The typical commute is a fairly long one, and a share of residents work from home.
Things to do. Nassau Lake sits in or beside town, an easy place for a walk or a look at the water. A longer drive brings you to the New York State Museum, and to Cohoes Falls, a waterfall on the Mohawk River. The Norman Rockwell Museum is also a longer drive away, for those who enjoy American art.
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- 439households
- 34%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 18%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Rensselaer County had 56,312 jobs in 2025, 0.8% fewer 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 84° and lows near 62°. About 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Valatie North weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Rensselaer County
- Regeneron - Industrial Operations and Product Supply (IOPS)Culture media manufacturing5,100
- Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteUniversity or college1,800
- Samaritan HospitalGeneral hospital1,753FTE
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage926
- OCFS Home OfficeChild and youth services907
- Hudson Valley Community CollegeTwo-year college889
- East Greenbush Central School DistrictSchool district766FTE
- Troy City School DistrictSchool district703FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 97 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 18,147 people in all across the county; Nassau has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) 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
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 Nassau’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 Rensselaer County and the Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY metro.
Nassau home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Nassau14
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Nassau7
Zip codes with a Nassau address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Nassau — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.