Springwater, New York.
. Rochester, 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 Springwater, Ontario County, New York
Springwater, in Ontario County, had 518 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $75,551 a year and half less, against $82,324 across Ontario County. Unemployment in Ontario County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Ontario County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Springwater is a very small community in Ontario County, with fewer residents than most towns you would pass through in the region. Household incomes run a little below the county's, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and freezing temperatures common, while July brings warm summer days. Rain and melted snow fall in moderate amounts across the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, manufacturing, and professional and business services. Across Ontario County, the largest workplaces include Fredrick Ferris Thompson Hospital, the Victor Central School District and Hobart William Smith Colleges. Unemployment across the county is about where it stood a year ago, and the county has a few fewer jobs than the year before. The typical commute is fairly long, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. Several small lakes lie a short drive away, among them Canadice Lake, Hemlock Lake and Honeoye Lake. Harriet Hollister Spencer State Recreation Area is a park a short drive away as well. For a longer outing, Letchworth State Park, a protected area, is a longer drive away.
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- 7%of adults have a degree
- 35 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What people in Ontario County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Ontario County had 53,686 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 83° and lows near 60°. About 29 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Dansville Municipal Airport weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Ontario County
- Fredrick Ferris Thompson HospitalGeneral hospital1,219FTE
- O'Connell Electric CompanyElectrical work1,100
- NY College & University934
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs744
- Victor Central School DistrictSchool district727FTE
- Canandaigua City School DistrictSchool district626FTE
- Hobart William Smith CollegesUniversity or college619
- Geneva General HospitalGeneral hospital614FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 130 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 18,646 people in all across the county; Springwater has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026), 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 Springwater’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 Ontario County and the Rochester, NY metro.
Springwater 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Springwater6
Zip codes with a Springwater address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Springwater — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.