North Collins, New York.
. Buffalo-Cheektowaga, 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 North Collins, Erie County, New York
North Collins is a village of 1,247 people in Erie County. 55% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 45% are rented. Unemployment in Erie County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. North Collins is a small village in Erie County, home to a modest number of people at the most recent census. Residents are somewhat older than in many places, and a majority of homes are lived in by their owners, though renters make up a sizable minority. Winters are cold and very snowy, with January the coldest month and heavy snowfall through the season, while July brings pleasantly warm days and rain and melted snow fall throughout the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, transport and warehousing, and a range of other services. Across Erie County, some of the largest workplaces are Kaleida Health, the University at Buffalo and Moog, Inc. in East Aurora. Unemployment across the county is about where it stood a year ago, and the county has a few fewer jobs than the year before. A typical commute is a moderate drive, and a small share of people work from home.
Things to do. Close to the village, Eighteen Mile Creek offers a stretch of creek and Wendt Beach Park a lakeside park, both a short drive away. A longer drive leads to Buffalo, where the Buffalo AKG Art Museum and the Buffalo Zoo are among the better known places to spend a day.
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- 503households
- 24%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Erie County had 464,902 jobs in 2025, 0.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 31° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 79° and lows near 59°. About 208 inches of snow and 54 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Perrysburg weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Erie County
- Kaleida HealthGeneral hospital6,761FTE
- Buffalo City School DistrictSchool district6,399FTE
- University at BuffaloUniversity or college5,548
- PeopleGroup homes, intellectual and developmental disability4,355
- Moog, Inc. - East AuroraFluid power valves and hose fitting4,216
- Erie County Medical CenterGeneral hospital2,930FTE
- ACV Auctions Inc. - HeadquartersBusiness to business electronic markets, durable goods, wholesale trade2,733
- Mercy Hospital of BuffaloGeneral hospital2,141FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 864 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 128,036 people in all across the county; North Collins has two 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
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in North Collins’ census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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 Erie County and the Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY metro.
North Collins 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.
- North Collins7
Zip codes with a North Collins address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls North Collins — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.