Wynantskill, New York.
Typical home $351,166 (+5.9% in a year). Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,022 (+125%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $19,650 +6%
- $331,516$351,166 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $87,257 +33%
- $263,909$351,166 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.
- Wynantskill$1,843
- 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 Wynantskill, NY rose 5.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Wynantskill, Rensselaer County, New York
Wynantskill, in Rensselaer County, had 4,050 people in the 2020 census. 83% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 17% are rented. Unemployment in Rensselaer County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then government.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Wynantskill is a small community where residents are older than in most American towns, and nearly everyone lives in a home they own. Incomes in the county run comfortably above the national picture, and relatively few residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and plenty of snow, while July brings warm summer days, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, and others are employed in government, in banks, insurance and property, or in professional and business services. A good number work from home, and a typical commute is of moderate length. Across Rensselaer County, some of the largest workplaces are Regeneron, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Samaritan Hospital.
Things to do. Cohoes Falls, a waterfall, is a short drive away, as is the New York State Museum. Peebles Island State Park, a protected area good for walking, is also a short drive from town. For art, the Clark Art Institute is a museum a longer drive away.
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- 1,487households
- 41%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 23%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Rensselaer County had 56,312 jobs in 2025, 0.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 34° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 64°. About 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Troy L&d weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Rensselaer County
- Regeneron - Industrial Operations and Product Supply (IOPS)Culture media manufacturing5,100
- Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteUniversity or college1,800
- Samaritan HospitalGeneral hospital1,753FTE
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage926
- OCFS Home OfficeChild and youth services907
- Hudson Valley Community CollegeTwo-year college889
- East Greenbush Central School DistrictSchool district766FTE
- Troy City School DistrictSchool district703FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 97 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 18,147 people in all across the county; Wynantskill has two of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals 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 moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively 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 Wynantskill’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 Rensselaer County and the Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY metro.
Wynantskill home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Wynantskill$351,166
- New York$524,942
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Wynantskill 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.
- Wynantskill32.59%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Wynantskill27
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Wynantskill14
Zip codes with a Wynantskill address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Wynantskill — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.