Wallkill, New York.
Typical home $489,450 (+5.2% in a year). Kingston, NY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,576 (+159%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $24,312 +5%
- $465,138$489,450 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $132,534 +37%
- $356,916$489,450 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.
- Wallkill$2,569
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Wallkill, NY rose 5.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Wallkill, Ulster County, New York
Wallkill, in Ulster County, had 2,166 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Ulster County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 2.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Ulster County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Wallkill is a small community in Ulster County, with a population that is small enough for people to know one another. Household incomes in the county are on the comfortable side for the region, and a typical home here is worth a good deal, so the town suits people who already own or have built up some savings. The commute to work is a fairly long one, and few people work from home, so most residents head out each day. Winters are cold, with the coldest weather in January, and a lot of snow falls over the season. Summers are warm, and the year brings plenty of rain and melted snow.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in professional and business services, shops, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. In town, the largest workplaces include the Wallkill Central School District, Fair-Rite Products Corp. - Wallkill, which makes electrical supplies and ceramics, and First Student, which runs school bus services. Across Ulster County, unemployment is close to where it stood a year ago, and the county has added a few more jobs than the year before.
Things to do. Close to town, the Shawangunk Grasslands National Wildlife Refuge is a protected area in or beside Wallkill, and Tin Brook runs in or beside town too. A short drive away is the Shawangunk Kill, a river good for a walk along its banks. For a longer outing, Dia Beacon and Storm King Art Center are both museums a longer drive away, and the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum is another longer drive.
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- 662households
- 8%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What people in Ulster County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Ulster County had 60,554 jobs in 2025, 2.1% more 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, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Wallkill
- Wallkill Central School DistrictSchool district442FTE
- Fair-Rite Products Corp. - WallkillElectrical supplies, ceramic, manufacturing123
- First Student120
- First StudentSchool bus services113
- Wallkill Valley Federal Savings and LoanCommercial banking74
- TransdevMixed mode transit systems27
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 457 people in all. School districts come 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
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Wallkill’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 Ulster County and the Kingston, NY metro.
Wallkill home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Wallkill$489,450
- New York$524,942
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Wallkill 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.
- Wallkill23.18%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Wallkill45
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Wallkill11
Zip codes with a Wallkill address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Wallkill — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.