Tappan, New York.
Typical home $748,000 (+5.8% in a year). New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,115 (+117%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $41,170 +6%
- $706,830$748,000 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $190,733 +34%
- $557,267$748,000 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.
- Tappan$3,926
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Tappan, NY rose 5.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Tappan, Rockland County, New York
Tappan, in Rockland County, had 6,673 people in the 2020 census. 94% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 6% 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Tappan is a small community where nearly all the homes are lived in by their owners, a much higher share than across most of the country. Typical home values run high, and few residents live below the poverty line. The population is older than in many places, and a large majority of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January highs near freezing and a fair amount of snow, while July brings warm days, and rain and melted snow add up to a good deal over the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, professional and business services, and government also employing a good number. In Tappan, some of the largest workplaces are Crestron Electronics in Orangeburg, which makes computers, Another Step, a support organization for people with disabilities and older adults, and Laborie Orangeburg, which makes microsurgical instruments. Commutes are fairly long, and some residents work from home. Across Rockland County, unemployment is unchanged from a year ago, and the number of jobs slipped slightly last year.
Things to do. Most of the well-known destinations are a longer drive away. The Statue of Liberty is a famous tourist attraction, and Central Park is a garden of the kind that draws visitors from across the region. The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the best-known museums in the country, and it is also a longer drive away.
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- 2,340households
- 60%of adults have a degree
- 3%below the poverty line
- 33 mintypical commute
- 12%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 40° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 64°. About 33 inches of snow and 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Dobbs Ferry-ardsley weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Rockland County
- Clarkstown Central School DistrictSchool district1,693FTE
- Good Samaritan HospitalGeneral hospital1,507FTE
- East Ramapo Central School District (spring Valley)School district1,405FTE
- Montefiore Nyack HospitalGeneral hospital1,306FTE
- RocklandPsychiatric hospital1,277FTE
- Haverstraw-stony Point CSD (north Rockland)School district1,235FTE
- Rockland Community CollegeTwo-year college892
- Human Care Services for Families and ChildrenCorporate offices795
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 125 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 17,263 people in all across the county; Tappan has two of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) 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
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively 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 Tappan’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.
Tappan home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Tappan$748,000
- 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.
- Tappan18
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Tappan7
Zip codes with a Tappan address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Tappan — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.