Old Chatham, New York.
Typical home $585,403 (+3.5% in a year). Hudson, NY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$235 (+8%) since Jan 2024.
- 1 year
- Up $19,523 +3%
- $565,880$585,403 since Sep 2025
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.
- Old Chatham$3,073
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Old Chatham, NY rose 3.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Old Chatham, Columbia County, New York
The Census does not count Old Chatham on its own, so the figures here are Columbia County's. Half the county's households earn more than $81,528 a year and half less; 12% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 76% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 24% are rented. Unemployment in Columbia County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Columbia County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Old Chatham is a town in Columbia County, in the Hudson Valley of eastern New York. Most homes here are lived in by their owners, and across the county the typical resident is well into middle age. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest. The area receives a good deal of rain and snow over the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals, social care, professional and business services, shops, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Unemployment across Columbia County is low and a little below what it was a year earlier, while the number of jobs has held roughly steady. A large share of adults hold a four-year degree, and a fair number of people work from home.
Things to do. The Martin Van Buren National Historic Site is a protected area a short drive away. Farther off, the Housatonic River is a river a longer drive away, and the Norman Rockwell Museum is a museum a longer drive away.
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- 26,627households
- 49.8median age
- 39%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 17%work from home
What people in Columbia County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Columbia County had 20,909 jobs in 2025, 0.1% more 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, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Columbia County
- Columbia Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital1,036FTE
- Kinderhook Central School DistrictSchool district332FTE
- Hudson City School DistrictSchool district316FTE
- Pine Haven Nursing & Rehabilitation CenterLong term health care300
- Chatham Central School DistrictSchool district275FTE
- Taconic Hills Central School DistrictSchool district254FTE
- Ginsberg's Foods HudsonGeneral-line groceries merchant wholesalers250
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters244
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 37 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,298 people in all. 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 moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Columbia County, 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 Columbia County and the Hudson, NY metro.
Old Chatham home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Old Chatham$585,403
- 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.
- Old Chatham10
Zip codes with a Old Chatham address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Old Chatham — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.