Stockton, New York.
Typical home $146,358 (+7.8% in a year). Jamestown-Dunkirk-Fredonia, NY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$110 (+17%) since Dec 2023.
- 1 year
- Up $10,593 +8%
- $135,766$146,358 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.
- Stockton$768
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Stockton, NY rose 7.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Stockton, Chautauqua County, New York
Stockton is a town of 2,044 people in Chautauqua County. 82% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 18% are rented. Unemployment in Chautauqua County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Chautauqua 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Stockton is a small rural town in Chautauqua County where most homes are lived in by their owners, and the share of homeowners is high for the state. The population is older than in much of the country, and fewer residents live below the poverty line than you might expect for a rural area. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are pleasantly warm, with July the warmest. The year brings a good deal of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and restaurants and hotels close behind. Across Chautauqua County, some of the largest workplaces are Cummins, which makes diesel engines, Nestle Purina Petcare Company, and SUNY at Fredonia. Fewer people hold a four-year degree than across the state, a modest share work from home, and the commute is of middling length.
Things to do. Lake Erie State Park, a protected area on the lake, and Long Point State Park on Lake Chautauqua are both a short drive away. Bear Lake is also a short drive, and a longer drive brings you to Chautauqua Lake itself, the best known of the area's waters.
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- 788households
- 28%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What people in Chautauqua County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Chautauqua County had 45,974 jobs in 2025, 0.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 34° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 63°. About 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Portland1 Southwest weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Chautauqua County
- CumminsEngines, diesel and semidiesel, manufacturing1,431
- Jamestown City School DistrictSchool district882FTE
- Nestle Purina Petcare CompanyFeeds, prepared for dog and cat, manufacturing800
- SUNY at FredoniaUniversity or college786
- Upmc Chautauqua at WCAGeneral hospital711FTE
- SKF GlobalBall bearing manufacturer444
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters403
- Jamestown Community CollegeTwo-year college360
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 115 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 12,415 people in all across the county; Stockton has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- LightningRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Chautauqua 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 Chautauqua County and the Jamestown-Dunkirk-Fredonia, NY metro.
Stockton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Stockton$146,358
- 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.
- Stockton4
Zip codes with a Stockton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Stockton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.