Palmyra, New York.
Typical home $244,082 (+4.3% in a year), asking rent $1,208 . Rochester, NY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$753 (+142%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,083 +4%
- $233,999$244,082 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $64,802 +36%
- $179,280$244,082 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.
- Palmyra$1,281
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Palmyra, NY rose 4.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Palmyra, Wayne County, New York
Palmyra is a village of 3,305 people in Wayne County. Half its households earn more than $64,983 a year and half less, against $74,506 across Wayne County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. 50% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 50% are rented. Unemployment in Wayne County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 1.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Palmyra is a small village in Wayne County, New York. Owners and renters live here in roughly equal measure, and household incomes run below the county's. Winters are cold, with February the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in manufacturing, shops, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Wayne County, some of the largest workplaces are Newark Wayne Community Hospital, Constellation, and the Newark Central School District. The typical commute is a moderate drive, and few people work from home.
Things to do. A longer drive brings you to Canandaigua Lake, a lake for boating and time by the water, and to the George Eastman Museum, one of the better known museums in the region. Women's Rights National Historical Park, a protected area tied to the history of the women's rights movement, is also a longer drive away.
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- 1,489households
- 26%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. Wayne County had 28,770 jobs in 2025, 1.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in February, with highs near 37° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 61°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Victor 2NW weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Wayne County
- NY - Williamson - 4363 Route 104 - MottsFruit and vegetable canning542
- Newark Wayne Community HospitalGeneral hospital518FTE
- ConstellationElectric power generation, nuclear507
- Newark Central School DistrictSchool district466FTE
- Wayne Central School DistrictSchool district458FTE
- Enpro IndustriesGasket, packing, and sealing devices manufacturing440
- Optimax SystemsLenses manufacturing430
- ABX Innovative Packaging Solutions;Food storage bags, plastics film, single wall or multiwall, manufacturing379
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 67 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 8,252 people in all across the county; Palmyra has one 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
- Ice stormsRelatively 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 Palmyra’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Wayne County and the Rochester, NY metro.
Palmyra home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Palmyra$244,082
- 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.
- Palmyra14
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Palmyra8
Zip codes with a Palmyra address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Palmyra — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.