Port Ewen, New York.
Typical home $386,267 (+3.3% in a year). Kingston, NY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,241 (+158%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,249 +3%
- $374,018$386,267 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $96,119 +33%
- $290,148$386,267 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.
- Port Ewen$2,027
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Port Ewen, NY rose 3.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Port Ewen, Ulster County, New York
Port Ewen, in Ulster County, had 3,678 people in the 2020 census. 86% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 14% are rented. Unemployment in Ulster County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 2.1% more 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Port Ewen is a small community on the Hudson River side of Ulster County, and most of its homes are lived in by their owners. Incomes here are not as high as the county's household median, and poverty is not widespread. Winters are cold and summers warm, with a good deal of rain and melted snow across the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, transport and warehousing, and professional and business services also employing many. Across Ulster County, some of the largest workplaces are the State University of New York at New Paltz, the Kingston City School District and HealthAlliance Hospital Marys Avenue. A four-year degree is held by a minority of adults, and a modest number work from home.
Things to do. Several places lie in or beside town, among them the Hudson River Maritime Museum, the Trolley Museum of New York and the Ulster Performing Arts Center, and Rondout Creek runs alongside. A short drive away are the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, a museum devoted to the president's papers and life, and Margaret Lewis Norrie State Park, a protected area on the river.
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- 1,451households
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Ulster County had 60,554 jobs in 2025, 2.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 37° and lows near 11°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 56°. About 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Rhinebeck 4SE weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Ulster County
- State University of New York at New PaltzUniversity or college1,315
- Kingston City School DistrictSchool district1,145FTE
- Healthalliance Hospital Marys AVEGeneral hospital755FTE
- Smiley BrothersAlpine skiing facilities with accommodations670
- Wallkill Central School DistrictSchool district442FTE
- Saugerties Central School DistrictSchool district415FTE
- New Paltz Central School DistrictSchool district395FTE
- Rondout Valley Central School DistrictSchool district393FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 105 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 10,598 people in all across the county; Port Ewen has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Port Ewen’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 Ulster County and the Kingston, NY metro.
Port Ewen home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Port Ewen$386,267
- 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.
- Port Ewen8
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Port Ewen address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Port Ewen — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.