Wolcott, New York.
Typical home $224,889 (+8.1% in a year). Rochester, NY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$697 (+144%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $16,924 +8%
- $207,965$224,889 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $56,687 +34%
- $168,202$224,889 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.
- Wolcott$1,180
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Wolcott, NY rose 8.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Wolcott, Wayne County, New York
Wolcott is a village of 1,556 people in Wayne County. Half its households earn more than $43,261 a year and half less, against $74,506 across Wayne County; 21% of its people live below the poverty line. 61% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 39% 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 residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Wolcott is a small village in Wayne County, in upstate New York. Incomes here run well below the county's, and more people live below the poverty line than most would expect, though most homes are lived in by their owners. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and winters are long: January is the coldest month, with highs just below freezing, and a great deal of snow falls each year, while July is pleasantly warm.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, farming and government. Across Wayne County, the largest workplaces include Newark Wayne Community Hospital, the Wayne Central School District and the Mott's fruit and vegetable canning plant in Williamson. The typical commute is a moderate one, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Chimney Bluffs State Park is a protected area a short drive away, and Duck Lake is a lake that is also a short drive from the village. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to Fair Haven Beach State Park, another protected area, and to Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge.
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- 682households
- 11%of adults have a degree
- 21%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents 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, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Wayne County
- NY - Williamson - 4363 Route 104 - MottsFruit and vegetable canning542
- Newark Wayne Community HospitalGeneral hospital518FTE
- ConstellationElectric power generation, nuclear507
- Newark Central School DistrictSchool district466FTE
- Wayne Central School DistrictSchool district458FTE
- Enpro IndustriesGasket, packing, and sealing devices manufacturing440
- Optimax SystemsLenses manufacturing430
- ABX Innovative Packaging Solutions;Food storage bags, plastics film, single wall or multiwall, manufacturing379
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 67 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 8,252 people in all across the county; Wolcott has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts 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
- Hailrelatively high in parts of WolcottRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Wolcott’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 Wayne County and the Rochester, NY metro.
Wolcott home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Wolcott$224,889
- New York$524,942
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Wolcott 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.
- Wolcott16.07%
- United States25.56%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Wolcott19
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Wolcott5
Zip codes with a Wolcott address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Wolcott — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.