West Kill, New York.
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to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,478 (+116%) since Jan 2020.
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.
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
Living in West Kill, Greene County, New York
West Kill, in Greene County, had 121 people in the 2020 census. 96% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 4% are rented. Unemployment in Greene County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 1.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Greene County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. West Kill is a very small community in Greene County, in the Catskills, and nearly everyone who lives here owns their home. The population is older than in many places, and the winters are cold and long, with a great deal of snow and plenty of rain and melted snow across the year. Summers are mild and warm rather than hot.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with professional and business services, shops, and restaurants and hotels also employing many. Across Greene County, the largest workplaces include Walmart, Haleon Oak Hill and the Catskill Central School District. Unemployment across the county is about where it was a year ago, and the county has added a few more jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Several brooks run in or beside town, and the West Kill river and Batavia Kill are a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to Catskill Park, a large protected area, and to Kaaterskill Falls, a waterfall that is among the best known in the region.
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What people in Greene County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Greene County had 14,337 jobs in 2025, 1.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 31° and lows near 11°; warmest in July, with highs near 77° and lows near 54°. About 94 inches of snow and 56 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the East Jewett weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Greene County
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters317
- Haleon Oak HillToothpastes, gels, and tooth powders manufacturing314
- Catskill Central School DistrictSchool district274FTE
- Cairo-durham Central School DistrictSchool district262FTE
- Empire Merchants North-CoxsackieWine and distilled alcoholic beverage merchant wholesalers258
- Coxsackie-athens Central School DistrictSchool district242FTE
- Ducommun New YorkAircraft assemblies, subassemblies, and parts manufacturing235
- Greenville Central School DistrictSchool district224FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 28 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,507 people in all across the county; West Kill has none of its own. 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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in West Kill’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Greene County.
West Kill home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
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Zip codes with a West Kill address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls West Kill — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.