Suffern, New York.
Typical home $593,058 (+4.2% in a year), asking rent $2,890 . New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,656 (+114%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $24,036 +4%
- $569,023$593,058 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $143,589 +32%
- $449,469$593,058 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.
- Suffern$3,113
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Suffern, NY rose 4.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Suffern, Rockland County, New York
Suffern is a village of 11,441 people in Rockland County. Half its households earn more than $104,607 a year and half less, against $109,959 across Rockland County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 67% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 33% are rented. Unemployment in Rockland County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Suffern is a village in Rockland County, New York, where most homes are lived in by their owners and renters make up the rest. Household incomes run a little below the county's, and a good share of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm in July, with rain and melted snow spread through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in professional and business services, and in transport, warehouses and utilities. Good Samaritan Hospital and Walmart are among the largest workplaces in Suffern. Commutes are fairly long, though some people work from home, and unemployment across Rockland County is no different from a year ago.
Things to do. For a day out, the Statue of Liberty is a tourist attraction a longer drive away, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art is a museum, also a longer drive away. The United States Military Academy, listed as a museum, is likewise a longer drive from the village. Central Park, a garden in the city, rounds out the best known places within reach.
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- 4,600households
- 43%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 29 mintypical commute
- 13%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Rockland County had 138,234 jobs in 2025, 0.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 38° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 64°. About 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Wanaque Raymond Dam weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Suffern
- Good Samaritan HospitalGeneral hospital1,507FTE
- WalmartDiscount department stores197
- ThreeC LogisticsCourier services142
- Sodexo at Good Samaritan HospitalFood service contractors60
- Compass Group51
- SuffernMail and parcel delivery37
- Braemar Living at MontebelloAssisted-living facilities without on-site nursing care facilities35
- Good Samaritan Hospital West Chester24
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 7 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 546 people in all. Hospitals come 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
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Suffern’s 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 Rockland County and the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
Suffern home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Suffern$593,058
- New York$524,942
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Suffern listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Suffern25.43%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Suffern65
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Suffern15
Zip codes with a Suffern address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Suffern — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.