Ovid, New York.
Typical home $220,816 (+6.2% in a year). Seneca Falls, NY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$187 (+19%) since Jan 2024.
- 1 year
- Up $12,950 +6%
- $207,866$220,816 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.
- Ovid$1,159
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Ovid, NY rose 6.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Ovid, Seneca County, New York
Ovid is a village of 534 people in Seneca County. Unemployment in Seneca County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Seneca 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Ovid is a very small village in Seneca County, in the Finger Lakes region of New York. Typical home values here sit somewhat below what the county's household incomes might suggest, and relatively few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and a good deal of snow falls over the year; summers are pleasantly warm, July being the warmest month.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment also employing many. Across Seneca County, the largest workplaces include del Lago Resort & Casino, the Waterloo Central School District and the Seneca Falls Central School District. Unemployment across the county is low and little changed from a year earlier, and the number of jobs has edged up slightly.
Things to do. Seneca Lake and Cayuga Lake are both a short drive away, and Lodi Point State Park, a protected area on the water, is close by too. A longer drive brings you to Watkins Glen State Park, another protected area known for its gorges and trails.
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- 22%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 29 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What people in Seneca County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Seneca County had 10,339 jobs in 2025, 0.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 31° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 61°. About 56 inches of snow and 37 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Aurora Rsch Farm weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Seneca County
- del Lago Resort & CasinoHotels, resort, with casinos686
- Waterloo Central School DistrictSchool district356FTE
- Seneca Falls Central School DistrictSchool district283FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters278
- South Seneca Central School DistrictSchool district196FTE
- Earl T. WadhamsTrucking, general freight, long-distance, truckload189
- Northeast College of Health SciencesUniversity or college185
- Bhb Seneca FallsDental laboratories156
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 22 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,652 people in all across the county; Ovid has one of its own. School districts come 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
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Ovid’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 Seneca County and the Seneca Falls, NY metro.
Ovid home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Ovid$220,816
- 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.
- Ovid10
Zip codes with a Ovid address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ovid — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.