Sodus, New York.
Typical home $198,399 (+7.0% in a year). Rochester, NY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$634 (+155%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,996 +7%
- $185,403$198,399 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $57,714 +41%
- $140,686$198,399 since Sep 2021
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.
- Sodus$1,041
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Sodus, NY rose 7.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Sodus, Wayne County, New York
Sodus is a village of 1,667 people in Wayne County. Unemployment in Wayne County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 1.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Wayne 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Sodus is a small village in Wayne County, in western New York, and it is lived in by far fewer people than the larger towns around it. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and a great deal of snow through the season, while summers turn comfortably warm, with July the warmest. Incomes here run below the county's, and a four-year degree is less common among adults than in many places.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and professional and business services close behind. The largest workplaces in Sodus include the Sodus Central School District and Dynalec, which makes central monitoring equipment for alarm systems. Commutes are fairly short, and almost no one works from home.
Things to do. Beechwood State Park is a protected area in or beside town, and Chimney Bluffs State Park is another protected area a short drive away. Also a short drive away is Zurich Bog, a protected natural area. For a day out, the George Eastman Museum is a museum a longer drive away.
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- 844households
- 17%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What people in Wayne County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Wayne County had 28,770 jobs in 2025, 1.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 31° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 79° and lows near 59°. About 105 inches of snow and 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Sodus 1W weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Sodus
- Sodus Central School DistrictSchool district274FTE
- DynalecAlarm system central monitoring equipment manufacturing131
- Compass Group27
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 158 people in all. 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
- HailRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Sodus’ 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 Wayne County and the Rochester, NY metro.
Sodus home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Sodus$198,399
- 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.
- Sodus6
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Sodus address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Sodus — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.