Rushford, New York.
Typical home $183,946 (+6.9% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$153 (+19%) since Jan 2024.
- 1 year
- Up $11,795 +7%
- $172,151$183,946 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.
- Rushford$965
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Rushford, NY rose 6.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Rushford, Allegany County, New York
Rushford, in Allegany County, had 351 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $55,909 a year and half less, against $62,869 across Allegany County. Unemployment in Allegany County was 5.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Allegany 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Rushford is a very small community in Allegany County, where neighbors are likely to know one another. Household incomes run below the county's, and homes are modest in price. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and winters are long: January is the coldest month, with highs just below freezing, and a great deal of snow falls each year. Summers are mild and comfortable, with July the warmest month, and rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and restaurants and hotels also employing people. Across Allegany County, some of the largest workplaces are Alfred University, SUNY College of Technology at Alfred and Jones Memorial Hospital. Unemployment across the county is slightly higher than a year ago, and the number of jobs has slipped a little. The typical commute is a moderate one.
Things to do. Rushford Lake is a short drive away and is the nearest place for time on the water. Cuba Lake, a reservoir, is also a short drive away. Letchworth State Park, a protected area, is a longer drive and well worth planning a day around.
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- 9%of adults have a degree
- 22 mintypical commute
What people in Allegany County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Allegany County had 13,544 jobs in 2025, 0.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 31° and lows near 14°; warmest in July, with highs near 79° and lows near 56°. About 109 inches of snow and 45 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Franklinville weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Allegany County
- SUNY College of Technology at AlfredUniversity or college643
- Alfred UniversityUniversity or college608
- Otis Minnesota ServicesOil pipeline construction556
- Saputo Cheese USACheese manufacturing380
- HrncSkilled nursing facilities338
- Jones Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital304FTE
- Wellsville Central School DistrictSchool district285FTE
- Arvos LjungstromPlate work, fabricated metal, manufacturing271
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 20 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,442 people in all across the county; Rushford has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) 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
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Rushford’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 Allegany County.
Rushford home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Rushford$183,946
- 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.
- Rushford5
Zip codes with a Rushford address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Rushford — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.