Walden, New York.
Typical home $422,595 (+2.3% in a year), asking rent $2,210 . Poughkeepsie-Newburgh-Middletown, NY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,292 (+140%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,648 +2%
- $412,947$422,595 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $103,869 +33%
- $318,726$422,595 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.
- Walden$2,218
- 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 Walden, NY rose 2.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Walden, Orange County, New York
Walden is a village of 6,818 people in Orange County. Half its households earn more than $87,487 a year and half less, against $97,178 across Orange County; 11% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Orange County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then transport and warehouses.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Walden is a village in Orange County, New York, with a median age a little younger than many towns its size. Household incomes run below the county's, and typical home values and rents are high enough that housing is a real part of the household budget. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while July is warm.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in transport, warehouses and utilities, in shops, and in professional and business services. Across Orange County, some of the largest workplaces are Garnet Health Medical Center, the United States Military Academy and the Newburgh City School District. Commutes tend to be long, and only a small share of people work from home.
Things to do. Tin Brook, a river in or beside town, and Peale's Barber Farm Mastodon Exhumation Site, an archaeological site also in or beside town, are close at hand. The Shawangunk Kill and the Muddy Kill, both rivers, are a short drive away. For a longer outing, the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum is a longer drive away.
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- 2,621households
- 28%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 35 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Orange County had 154,905 jobs in 2025, 0.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 36° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 61°. About 44 inches of snow and 45 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Walden Ese weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Orange County
- Garnet Health Medical CenterGeneral hospital2,626FTE
- United States Military AcademyUniversity or college2,000
- Newburgh City School DistrictSchool district1,723FTE
- Middletown City School DistrictSchool district1,262FTE
- St. Lukes Cornwall HospitalGeneral hospital1,049FTE
- Monroe-woodbury Central School DistrictSchool district1,009FTE
- Orange County Community CollegeTwo-year college952
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage910
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 262 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 32,499 people in all across the county; Walden has two of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively 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 Walden’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 Orange County and the Poughkeepsie-Newburgh-Middletown, NY metro.
Walden home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Walden$422,595
- 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 Walden listings — the market is cooling.
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.
- Walden22.97%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Walden41
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Walden12
Zip codes with a Walden address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Walden — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.