Valhalla, New York.
Typical home $909,221 (+5.3% in a year). New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,542 (+114%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $45,684 +5%
- $863,537$909,221 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $222,438 +32%
- $686,783$909,221 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.
- Valhalla$4,772
- 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 Valhalla, NY rose 5.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Valhalla, Westchester County, New York
Valhalla, in Westchester County, had 3,213 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $134,037 a year and half less, against $118,976 across Westchester County; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. 90% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 10% are rented. Unemployment in Westchester County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Valhalla is a small community in Westchester County where nearly everyone owns the home they live in, a much higher proportion than across most of the county. Household incomes run above the county's, and a good share of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and freezing nights, and summers are warm; rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in the building trades, and in banks, insurance and property. Among the largest workplaces across Westchester County are Westchester Medical Center, White Plains Hospital and PepsiCo. Commutes are of middling length, and a fair number of people work from home.
Things to do. The Bronx River runs in or beside town, and the Bronx Zoo is a longer drive away. Farther afield, the Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the best known museums in the country, and Central Park is a longer drive away too. Each of these makes a day trip rather than an errand.
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- 1,047households
- 44%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 23%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Westchester County had 433,070 jobs in 2025, 0.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 37° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 65°. About 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Westchester County Airport weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Westchester County
- Westchester Medical CenterGeneral hospital4,340FTE
- Yonkers City School DistrictSchool district3,450FTE
- PepsiCoOffice administrative services3,117
- White Plains HospitalGeneral hospital2,984FTE
- A&A MaintenanceJanitorial services2,750
- St. Johns Riverside HospitalGeneral hospital1,819FTE
- Phelps Memorial Hospital CenterGeneral hospital1,796FTE
- Northern Westchester HospitalGeneral hospital1,720FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 483 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 79,918 people in all across the county; Valhalla has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts 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
- Strong windRelatively 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 Valhalla’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 Westchester County and the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
Valhalla home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Valhalla$909,221
- 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.
- Valhalla10
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Valhalla6
Zip codes with a Valhalla address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Valhalla — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.