North Rose, New York.
Typical home $209,367 (+3.5% in a year). Rochester, NY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$615 (+127%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,077 +3%
- $202,289$209,367 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $41,352 +25%
- $168,014$209,367 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.
- North Rose$1,099
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in North Rose, NY rose 3.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in North Rose, Wayne County, New York
North Rose, in Wayne County, had 571 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Wayne County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 1.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Wayne County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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 Rose is a very small community in Wayne County, New York, where people tend to know one another. Homes here are valued below what is typical across much of the country, and a larger share of residents live below the poverty line than is usual. Winters are long and cold, with heavy snowfall, while summers turn pleasantly warm, and precipitation falls steadily through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and professional and business services also employing a good number. Across Wayne County, the largest workplaces include Newark Wayne Community Hospital, the Newark Central School District and Enpro Industries. Unemployment across the county is low and has held steady over the past year, and the county has added jobs recently. The typical commute is a moderate one.
Things to do. Chimney Bluffs State Park is a protected area a short drive away, and Beechwood State Park, also a protected area, is a short drive away too. For a longer outing, Women's Rights National Historical Park is a protected area a longer drive away. Fair Haven Beach State Park is also a longer drive away.
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- 17%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
What people in Wayne County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Wayne County had 28,770 jobs in 2025, 1.9% more 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 105 inches of snow and 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Sodus 1W weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Wayne County
- NY - Williamson - 4363 Route 104 - MottsFruit and vegetable canning542
- Newark Wayne Community HospitalGeneral hospital518FTE
- ConstellationElectric power generation, nuclear507
- Newark Central School DistrictSchool district466FTE
- Wayne Central School DistrictSchool district458FTE
- Enpro IndustriesGasket, packing, and sealing devices manufacturing440
- Optimax SystemsLenses manufacturing430
- ABX Innovative Packaging Solutions;Food storage bags, plastics film, single wall or multiwall, manufacturing379
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 67 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 8,252 people in all across the county; North Rose has none of its own. Hospitals come 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
- HailRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in North Rose’s 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 Wayne County and the Rochester, NY metro.
North Rose home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- North Rose$209,367
- 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.
Zip codes with a North Rose address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls North Rose — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.