Palisades, New York.
Typical home $962,178 (+6.8% in a year). New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$789 (+19%) since Dec 2023.
- 1 year
- Up $61,161 +7%
- $901,016$962,178 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.
- Palisades$5,050
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Palisades, NY rose 6.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Palisades, Rockland County, New York
The Census does not count Palisades on its own, so the figures here are Rockland County's. Half the county's households earn more than $109,959 a year and half less; 16% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 68% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 32% are rented. Unemployment in Rockland County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Rockland 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Palisades is a community in Rockland County, New York. Across the county, most homes are lived in by their owners, and home values are high. Household incomes sit well above the national norm, and winters bring real cold and a good deal of snow, while summers run hot and the year is fairly wet.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, professional and business services, shops, or the building trades. Across the county, unemployment has stayed low and steady, and the number of jobs has barely changed from the year before. A large share of adults hold a four-year degree, and while some residents work from home, most still travel to a workplace each day.
Things to do. The Statue of Liberty, one of the best known tourist attractions, is a longer drive away. Central Park, a garden, is also a longer drive away and is a pleasant place to walk. The Hudson River, a river that runs along the region, is another option for an outing.
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- 103,879households
- 34.8median age
- 43%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 13%work from home
What people in Rockland County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Rockland County had 138,234 jobs in 2025, 0.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 40° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 64°. About 33 inches of snow and 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Dobbs Ferry-ardsley weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Rockland County
- Clarkstown Central School DistrictSchool district1,693FTE
- Good Samaritan HospitalGeneral hospital1,507FTE
- East Ramapo Central School District (spring Valley)School district1,405FTE
- Montefiore Nyack HospitalGeneral hospital1,306FTE
- RocklandPsychiatric hospital1,277FTE
- Haverstraw-stony Point CSD (north Rockland)School district1,235FTE
- Rockland Community CollegeTwo-year college892
- Human Care Services for Families and ChildrenCorporate offices795
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 125 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 17,263 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Rockland County, 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 Rockland County and the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
Palisades home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Palisades$962,178
- 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 Palisades address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Palisades — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.