Perry, New York.
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to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,478 (+116%) since Jan 2020.
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.
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
Living in Perry, Wyoming County, New York
Perry is a village of 3,536 people in Wyoming County. Half its households earn more than $63,291 a year and half less, against $69,110 across Wyoming County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. 66% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 34% are rented. Unemployment in Wyoming County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Perry is a village in Wyoming County, a small place where residents are somewhat younger than the typical age in many rural towns, and where most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run a little below the county's, and a modest share of residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and plenty of snow mixed into the year's precipitation, while July brings warm, comfortable summer days.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, professional and business services, and banks, insurance and property also employing a good number. Across Wyoming County, the largest workplaces include Wyoming County Community Hospital, Letchworth Central School District and Steel & O'Brien, a metal and steam fittings manufacturer. Unemployment is low and has barely changed over the past year, though the county has fewer jobs than it did a year earlier. Commutes are short, and some residents work from home.
Things to do. Silver Lake sits in or beside town, and Silver Lake State Park is a short drive away for time near the water. Letchworth State Park, a protected area and one of the best known places in the region, is also a short drive away. For something different, the 1941 Historical Aircraft Group Museum is a short drive away too.
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- 1,619households
- 23%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Wyoming County had 12,357 jobs in 2025, 1.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 31° and lows near 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 60°. About 33 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mount Morris West weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Wyoming County
- Wyoming County Community HospitalGeneral hospital376FTE
- Letchworth Central School DistrictSchool district230FTE
- Steel & O'BrienSteam fittings, metal, manufacturing227
- Attica Central School DistrictSchool district226FTE
- Creative Food Ingredients-New York222
- Perry Central School DistrictSchool district180FTE
- Warsaw Central School DistrictSchool district177FTE
- WalmartDiscount department stores131
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 32 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,124 people in all across the county; Perry has two 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
- LightningRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Perry’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 Wyoming County.
Perry home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Perry14
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Perry7
Zip codes with a Perry address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Perry — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.