Slate Hill, New York.
Typical home $537,324 (+4.5% in a year). Poughkeepsie-Newburgh-Middletown, NY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$386 (+16%) since Jan 2024.
- 1 year
- Up $23,311 +5%
- $514,012$537,324 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.
- Slate Hill$2,820
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Slate Hill, NY rose 4.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Slate Hill, Orange County, New York
The Census does not count Slate Hill on its own, so the figures here are Orange County's. Half the county's households earn more than $97,178 a year and half less; 13% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 68% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 32% are rented. Unemployment in Orange County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Orange County work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Slate Hill is a town in Orange County, New York, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Across the county, incomes sit below the state's typical level, and a sizable share of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, summers are warm, and the area gets plenty of rain and melted snow over a year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in professional and business services, and in the building trades. Across Orange County, unemployment was slightly lower in the most recent reading than a year earlier, though the number of jobs fell a little over the past year. Some residents work from home.
Things to do. Legoland New York is a short drive away and is an amusement park suited to families. Storm King Art Center and Bear Mountain State Park are both a longer drive away, with the first offering a museum of outdoor sculpture and the second a large protected area of woods and trails.
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- 138,608households
- 37.0median age
- 32%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
- 34 mintypical commute
- 13%work from home
What people in Orange County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Orange County had 154,905 jobs in 2025, 0.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 34° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 62°. About 44 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Middletown Northwest weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Orange County
- Garnet Health Medical CenterGeneral hospital2,626FTE
- United States Military AcademyUniversity or college2,000
- Newburgh City School DistrictSchool district1,723FTE
- Middletown City School DistrictSchool district1,262FTE
- St. Lukes Cornwall HospitalGeneral hospital1,049FTE
- Monroe-woodbury Central School DistrictSchool district1,009FTE
- Orange County Community CollegeTwo-year college952
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage910
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 262 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 32,499 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) 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 high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Orange County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Orange County and the Poughkeepsie-Newburgh-Middletown, NY metro.
Slate Hill home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Slate Hill$537,324
- 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.
- Slate Hill11
Zip codes with a Slate Hill address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Slate Hill — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.