Red Hook, New York.
, asking rent $2,788 . Poughkeepsie-Newburgh-Middletown, NY metro.
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 Red Hook, Dutchess County, New York
Red Hook is a village of 1,975 people in Dutchess County. Half its households earn more than $107,411 a year and half less, against $99,478 across Dutchess County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 66% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 34% are rented. Unemployment in Dutchess County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 3.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Dutchess County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Red Hook is a village in Dutchess County, home to a small community with an older population than many places in the state. Household incomes run somewhat above the county's, and most homes are lived in by their owners. A large share of adults hold a four-year degree.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in shops, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Dutchess County, some of the largest workplaces are Vassar Brothers Medical Center, Marist College and the county government. Commutes are fairly short, and a good many people work from home.
Things to do. In or beside town are the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome, a museum, and the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, a theatre. The Saw Kill, a river, runs in or beside town, and Clermont State Historic Site, a protected area, is a short drive away. Winters are cold and snowy, summers are warm, and rain and melted snow fall fairly steadily through the year.
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- 1,069households
- 57%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 21%work from home
What people in Dutchess County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Dutchess County had 116,699 jobs in 2025, 3.4% 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, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Dutchess County
- Vassar Brothers Medical CenterGeneral hospital2,423FTE
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage2,382
- Dutchess County GovernmentExecutive offices, federal, state, and local1,787
- Wappingers Central School DistrictSchool district1,737FTE
- Arlington Central School DistrictSchool district1,519FTE
- Marist CollegeUniversity or college1,244
- Vassar CollegeUniversity or college1,227
- Bard CollegeUniversity or college1,046
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 190 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 29,290 people in all across the county; Red Hook has two of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
FEMA rates every natural hazard here relatively low or very low.
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Red Hook’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 Dutchess County and the Poughkeepsie-Newburgh-Middletown, NY metro.
Red Hook 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.
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 5 Red Hook listings — the market is heating up.
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.
- Red Hook19.49%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Red Hook39
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Red Hook9
Zip codes with a Red Hook address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Red Hook — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.