Romulus, New York.
Typical home $365,708 (+10.4% in a year). Seneca Falls, NY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$289 (+18%) since Jan 2024.
- 1 year
- Up $34,468 +10%
- $331,239$365,708 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.
- Romulus$1,920
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Romulus, NY rose 10.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Romulus, Seneca County, New York
Romulus, in Seneca County, had 356 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Seneca County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Seneca County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Romulus is a very small community in Seneca County, in the Finger Lakes region of New York. Typical home values here are well above what the county's median household income would comfortably cover, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while July is the warmest and brings pleasantly warm days, and rain and melted snow fall at a moderate rate through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in manufacturing, shops, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Seneca County, the largest workplaces include del Lago Resort & Casino, the Waterloo Central School District and the Seneca Falls Central School District. Unemployment across the county is a little lower than it was a year ago, and the number of jobs has edged up slightly.
Things to do. Seneca Lake and Cayuga Lake are both a short drive away, and the Seneca River is close by as well. Sampson State Park, a protected area on the lake shore, is also a short drive away. For a longer outing, Watkins Glen International, a race track, is a longer drive away.
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- 4%of adults have a degree
What people in Seneca County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Seneca County had 10,339 jobs in 2025, 0.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 31° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 61°. About 56 inches of snow and 37 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Aurora Rsch Farm weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Seneca County
- del Lago Resort & CasinoHotels, resort, with casinos686
- Waterloo Central School DistrictSchool district356FTE
- Seneca Falls Central School DistrictSchool district283FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters278
- South Seneca Central School DistrictSchool district196FTE
- Earl T. WadhamsTrucking, general freight, long-distance, truckload189
- Northeast College of Health SciencesUniversity or college185
- Bhb Seneca FallsDental laboratories156
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 22 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,652 people in all across the county; Romulus has one of its own. School districts come 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
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Romulus’ 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 Seneca County and the Seneca Falls, NY metro.
Romulus home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Romulus$365,708
- 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.
- Romulus8
Zip codes with a Romulus address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Romulus — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.