Wilson, New York.
Typical home $276,352 (+5.4% in a year). Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$849 (+141%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,136 +5%
- $262,216$276,352 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $66,769 +32%
- $209,583$276,352 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.
- Wilson$1,451
- 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 Wilson, NY rose 5.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Wilson, Niagara County, New York
Wilson is a village of 1,247 people in Niagara County. Half its households earn more than $60,639 a year and half less, against $69,633 across Niagara County. 82% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 18% are rented. Unemployment in Niagara County was 4.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Wilson is a small village on the Lake Ontario shore in Niagara County, where nearly everyone who lives there owns their home. Households are older than in much of the country, and incomes run below the county's. Winters are cold and very snowy, summers are warm, and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents mostly work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in professional and business services, manufacturing and shops. Across Niagara County, some of the largest workplaces are General Motors Lockport Components, the Niagara Falls City School District and Niagara University. Fewer adults here hold a four-year degree than you might expect, a good number work from home, and the typical commute is a fairly long one.
Things to do. Wilson-Tuscarora State Park, a protected area in or beside town, is the nearest place to get outdoors. A longer drive takes you to Niagara Falls, one of the best known waterfalls in the world, and to Fort Niagara, a historic fort on the lakeshore. The Buffalo AKG Art Museum, also a longer drive away, rounds out a day trip.
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- 641households
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 27 mintypical commute
- 18%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Niagara County had 68,617 jobs in 2025, 0.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 34° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 62°. About 55 inches of snow and 34 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Youngstown East weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Niagara County
- General Motors Lockport ComponentsRadiators and cores manufacturing1,580
- Niagara Falls City School DistrictSchool district1,223FTE
- Niagara UniversityUniversity or college854
- Niagara Falls Memorial Medical CenteGeneral hospital779FTE
- Mount St. Marys HospitalGeneral hospital680FTE
- Lockport City School DistrictSchool district657FTE
- Niagara-wheatfield Central School DistrictSchool district592FTE
- North Tonawanda City School DistrictSchool district567FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 168 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 15,890 people in all across the county; Wilson has two of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
FEMA rates every natural hazard here relatively low or very low.
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Wilson’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 Niagara County and the Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY metro.
Wilson home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Wilson$276,352
- 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.
- Wilson15
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Wilson6
Zip codes with a Wilson address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Wilson — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.