Williamson, New York.
Typical home $255,908 (+6.1% in a year). Rochester, NY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$792 (+144%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,699 +6%
- $241,209$255,908 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $70,647 +38%
- $185,261$255,908 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.
- Williamson$1,343
- 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 Williamson, NY rose 6.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Williamson, Wayne County, New York
Williamson, in Wayne County, had 2,418 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $70,298 a year and half less, against $74,506 across Wayne County; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. 71% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 29% are rented. Unemployment in Wayne County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 1.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Wayne County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Williamson is a small community in Wayne County where most homes are lived in by their owners, more so than many places of its size. Incomes run a little below the county's, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many towns. Winters are cold and very snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are pleasantly warm, with July the warmest, and moisture falls steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, shops and professional and business services. Among the largest workplaces in Williamson are a fruit and vegetable canning plant, the Williamson Central School District and Thatcher Company of New York, a chemical manufacturer. The typical commute is a moderate one, and a fair number of people work from home.
Things to do. Closest to town are Beechwood State Park, a protected area a short drive away, and St. Peter, an archaeological site that is also a short drive away. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to Chimney Bluffs State Park, a protected area, and to the George Eastman Museum, one of the best known museums in the region.
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- 973households
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 16%work from home
What people in Wayne County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Wayne County had 28,770 jobs in 2025, 1.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 31° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 79° and lows near 59°. About 105 inches of snow and 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Sodus 1W weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Williamson
- NY - Williamson - 4363 Route 104 - MottsFruit and vegetable canning542
- Williamson Central School DistrictSchool district249FTE
- Thatcher Company of New YorkSodium inorganic compounds, not specified elsewhere by process, manufacturing25
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 567 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
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Williamson’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 Wayne County and the Rochester, NY metro.
Williamson home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Williamson$255,908
- New York$524,942
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 8 Williamson 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Williamson20
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Williamson10
Zip codes with a Williamson address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Williamson — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.