Westfield, New York.
Typical home $188,384 (+7.1% in a year). Jamestown-Dunkirk-Fredonia, NY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$100 (+11%) since Dec 2023.
- 1 year
- Up $12,547 +7%
- $175,837$188,384 since Sep 2025
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.
- Westfield$989
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Westfield, NY rose 7.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Westfield, Chautauqua County, New York
Westfield is a village of 2,910 people in Chautauqua County. Half its households earn more than $46,774 a year and half less, against $58,351 across Chautauqua County. Unemployment in Chautauqua County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Chautauqua County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Westfield is a small village in Chautauqua County, in the far western corner of New York. Incomes here run below the county's, and homes are priced modestly. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm in July. Rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the year, so the landscape stays green.
Work. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and restaurants and hotels also employing many. Westfield Central School District is among the largest workplaces in the village, alongside Renold, which makes couplings and mechanical power transmission parts, and Welch's, which makes fruit juices. The commute is short for most people, and few work from home. Across the county, there are slightly fewer jobs than a year earlier.
Things to do. The McClurg Museum is in or beside town, and Palestine Park and Chautauqua Creek are both a short drive away for a walk or time by the water. A longer drive brings you to Chautauqua Lake, one of the best known lakes in the area, as well as Presque Isle State Park, a protected area along the shore.
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- 1,546households
- 25%of adults have a degree
- 15 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What people in Chautauqua County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Chautauqua County had 45,974 jobs in 2025, 0.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 34° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 64°. About 44 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Westfield Sse weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Westfield
- Westfield Central School DistrictSchool district137FTE
- Wf-wf-westfieldSkilled nursing111
- Schwan's Shared ServicesPl94
- RenoldCouplings, mechanical power transmission, manufacturing70
- Welch's Food Inc. WestfieldJuices, fruit or vegetable, fresh, manufacturing27
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 302 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
- LightningRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively 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 Westfield’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 Chautauqua County and the Jamestown-Dunkirk-Fredonia, NY metro.
Westfield home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Westfield$188,384
- 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.
- Westfield15
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Westfield7
Zip codes with a Westfield address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Westfield — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.