Odessa, New York.
Typical home $202,859 (+5.4% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$602 (+130%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,424 +5%
- $192,434$202,859 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $47,061 +30%
- $155,798$202,859 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.
- Odessa$1,065
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Odessa, NY rose 5.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Odessa, Schuyler County, New York
Odessa is a village of 517 people in Schuyler County. Unemployment in Schuyler County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 2.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Odessa is a very small village in Schuyler County, in the Finger Lakes region of New York. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and highs staying around freezing, and summers are pleasantly warm, with July the warmest. The year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow. A typical home here costs less than the typical home across much of the country, and a minority of adults hold a four-year degree.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, manufacturing and the building trades. Across Schuyler County, some of the largest workplaces are Walmart, Schuyler Hospital and the Watkins Glen Central School District. Most people commute a moderate distance to work, and only a few work from home.
Things to do. Watkins Glen International, a race track, and Watkins Glen State Park, a protected area, are both a short drive away, as are Catharine Creek and Cayuta Lake for time on the water. Seneca Lake and the Corning Museum of Glass are a longer drive away.
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- 27%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Schuyler County had 5,185 jobs in 2025, 2.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 30° and lows near 14°; warmest in July, with highs near 79° and lows near 56°. About 39 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mecklenburg 4SW weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Schuyler County
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters236
- Schuyler HospitalCritical access hospital209FTE
- Watkins Glen Central School DistrictSchool district208FTE
- US SaltSalt evaporation204
- Welliver McGuireOffice building construction140
- Odessa-montour Central School DistrictSchool district133FTE
- Cargill Salt - Watkins GlenSalt, table, manufacturing127
- The Baillie GroupWood chips made in sawmills116
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 10 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,316 people in all across the county; Odessa has two 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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Odessa’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 Schuyler County.
Odessa home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Odessa$202,859
- 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.
- Odessa6
Zip codes with a Odessa address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Odessa — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.