West Nyack, New York.
Typical home $792,324 (+4.7% in a year). New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,227 (+115%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $35,647 +5%
- $756,677$792,324 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $185,140 +30%
- $607,184$792,324 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.
- West Nyack$4,159
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in West Nyack, NY rose 4.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in West Nyack, Rockland County, New York
West Nyack, in Rockland County, had 3,649 people in the 2020 census. 93% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 7% 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 shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. West Nyack is a small community in Rockland County, and nearly everyone who lives here owns their home. Household poverty is rare, and typical homes are valued well above what most of the country would expect. Winters are cold, with January highs near freezing and lows below it, and summers turn warm in July. A fair amount of snow falls each year, and the town sees plenty of rain and melted snow across the seasons.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in professional and business services, and in banking, insurance and property. Among the larger workplaces in West Nyack are Macy's, Orange and Rockland Utilities and Nice-Pak Prod. Inc. / PDI. Joblessness in Rockland County has held steady over the past year, and a good number of residents work from home.
Things to do. The best-known places nearby are all a longer drive away. The Statue of Liberty is a famous tourist attraction, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the country's great museums. Central Park, a large garden and green space in the middle of the city, is also within reach for a day out.
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- 2%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 15%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, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in West Nyack
- Abe's Vegan MuffinsPies, frozen, manufacturing200
- Macy'sDepartment stores164
- Orange and Rockland UtilitiesDistribution of electric power117
- BJ's Wholesale Club, Inc.Warehouse club and supercenters113
- Yaboo Fence CoFence installation75
- Nice-Pak Prod. Inc. / PDIDetergents manufacturing51
- Veolia Municipal Water Utility Operations, Inc.Water39
- Palisades Levity LiveTheaters, dinner38
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 9 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 825 people in all. 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 high
- Strong windrelatively high in parts of West NyackRelatively 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 West Nyack’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.
West Nyack home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- West Nyack$792,324
- New York$524,942
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 7 West Nyack 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.
- West Nyack15.18%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- West Nyack22
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- West Nyack9
Zip codes with a West Nyack address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls West Nyack — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.