Painted Post, New York.
Typical home $211,005 (+4.1% in a year), asking rent $1,392 (+1.9%). Corning, NY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$564 (+104%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,284 +4%
- $202,721$211,005 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $41,588 +25%
- $169,417$211,005 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.
- Painted Post$1,108
- 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 Painted Post, NY rose 4.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Painted Post, NY rose 1.9% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Painted Post runs $352/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $359 in Jan 2025.
That is $1,744 a month against $1,392 rent: a $1,086 mortgage payment, plus $432 property tax and $226 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Painted Post
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$1,744
- Renting$1,392
- Mortgage only$1,086
Property tax · $432/mo 2.46% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Steuben County, NY
Insurance & upkeep · $226/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Painted Post, Steuben County, New York
Painted Post is a village of 1,768 people in Steuben County. Half its households earn more than $62,891 a year and half less, against $65,887 across Steuben County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. 64% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 36% are rented. Unemployment in Steuben County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% fewer 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. Painted Post is a village in Steuben County, and a small one, where neighbors are likely to know one another. Most homes are lived in by their owners, though there are more renters than you might expect in so small a place. Household incomes run a little below the county's, and a four-year degree is held by a fair number of adults. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and plenty of snow, while summers are pleasantly warm, and rain and melted snow fall steadily across the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Steuben County, some of the largest workplaces are the Corning City School District, the Veterans Health Administration and Corning Hospital. The usual trip to work is short, and a good number of people do their jobs from home. Unemployment across the county has risen slightly over the past year, and the county has lost a few jobs.
Things to do. The Corning Museum of Glass and the Rockwell Museum are both in or beside town, and both are museums. The Tioga River also runs in or beside town, and Pinnacle State Park and Golf Course is a short drive away. For a longer day out, Watkins Glen State Park is a protected area a longer drive away.
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- 865households
- 36%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 17 mintypical commute
- 14%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Steuben County had 34,483 jobs in 2025, 0.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 30° and lows near 12°; warmest in July, with highs near 79° and lows near 55°. About 53 inches of snow and 39 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Corning weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Steuben County
- Corning City School DistrictSchool district839FTE
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs676
- CorningCatalytic converters, engine exhaust, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing647
- Alstom TransportationRolling stock, railroad, rebuilding634
- Corning HospitalGeneral hospital552FTE
- Corelle BrandsIndustrial glassware and glass products, pressed or blown, made in glass making plants365
- Wayland-cohocton Central School DistrictSchool district323FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters320
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 57 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 7,222 people in all across the county; Painted Post has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Painted Post’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 Steuben County and the Corning, NY metro.
Painted Post home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Painted Post$211,005
- New York$524,942
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Painted Post listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Painted Post27.08%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Painted Post31
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Painted Post13
Zip codes with a Painted Post address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Painted Post — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.