Pittsford, New York.
Typical home $511,363 (+4.9% in a year), asking rent $2,532 . Rochester, NY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$405 (+18%) since Jan 2024.
- 1 year
- Up $24,060 +5%
- $487,303$511,363 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.
- Pittsford$2,684
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Pittsford, NY rose 4.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Pittsford, Monroe County, New York
Pittsford is a village of 1,419 people in Monroe County. Half its households earn more than $119,211 a year and half less, against $76,382 across Monroe County; 2% of its people live below the poverty line. 78% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 22% are rented. Unemployment in Monroe County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 1.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Pittsford is a very small village in Monroe County, and most homes there are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run well above the county's, very few residents fall below the poverty line, and a four-year degree is common among adults. Winters are cold, with February the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by professional and business services, manufacturing, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Monroe County, some of the largest workplaces are Strong Memorial Hospital, the University of Rochester and Rochester Institute of Technology. The typical commute is a short one.
Things to do. Lock 32 Canal Park is in or beside town, and the George Eastman Museum and The National Museum of Play are each a short drive away. For water, Canandaigua Lake is a longer drive away.
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- 658households
- 78%of adults have a degree
- 2%below the poverty line
- 17 mintypical commute
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Monroe County had 386,911 jobs in 2025, 1.2% 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, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Monroe County
- Strong Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital12,572FTE
- University of RochesterUniversity or college10,611
- Rochester City School DistrictSchool district4,757FTE
- Lewis Tree ServiceTree and brush trimming, overhead utility line4,751
- Rochester Institute of TechnologyUniversity or college4,306
- Rochester General HospitalGeneral hospital3,361FTE
- Wegmans Market StCorporate managing offices3,358
- THE Unity Hospital of RochesterGeneral hospital3,170FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 644 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 109,514 people in all across the county; Pittsford has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Pittsford’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 Monroe County and the Rochester, NY metro.
Pittsford home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Pittsford$511,363
- New York$524,942
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Pittsford listings, and the typical home goes pending in 9 days — 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.
- Pittsford17.84%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Pittsford9
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Pittsford81
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Pittsford48
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Pittsford116.58%
Zip codes with a Pittsford address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Pittsford — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.