Prattsville, 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 Prattsville, Greene County, New York
Prattsville, in Greene County, had 384 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Greene County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 1.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Greene County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Prattsville is a very small community in the northern Catskills, with fewer people than most towns of any kind. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and highs staying close to freezing, while July is pleasantly warm. Rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the course of a year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in professional and business services, shops, and restaurants and hotels. Across Greene County, the largest workplaces include Walmart, Haleon Oak Hill and the Catskill Central School District. Commutes tend to be long, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Water is the main draw close to home. The Schoharie Reservoir lies in or beside town, and Mine Kill State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away. For a longer outing, Kaaterskill Falls, a waterfall, and Catskill Park, a protected area, are a longer drive away.
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- 36 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What people in Greene County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Greene County had 14,337 jobs in 2025, 1.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 33° and lows near 11°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 56°. About 45 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lansing Manor weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Greene County
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters317
- Haleon Oak HillToothpastes, gels, and tooth powders manufacturing314
- Catskill Central School DistrictSchool district274FTE
- Cairo-durham Central School DistrictSchool district262FTE
- Empire Merchants North-CoxsackieWine and distilled alcoholic beverage merchant wholesalers258
- Coxsackie-athens Central School DistrictSchool district242FTE
- Ducommun New YorkAircraft assemblies, subassemblies, and parts manufacturing235
- Greenville Central School DistrictSchool district224FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 28 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,507 people in all across the county; Prattsville has none of its own. School districts come 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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Prattsville’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 Greene County.
Prattsville 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.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Prattsville listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Prattsville18.60%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Prattsville23
Zip codes with a Prattsville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Prattsville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.