A typical Orleans home is worth roughly $190,000
What kind of housing town is Orleans?
Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.
A typical home costs 2.5 years of income
Less than across New York (6.1 years). Try your own numbers below.
That covers a typical Orleans home, with $99K to spare.
A two-bedroom rents for about $1,170 a month here, $30 less than owning.
How Orleans ranks on affordability →
An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Orleans’s typical property tax (1.25% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.
7 of Orleans’s houses are on the National Register
Half of Orleans’s homes were built before 1970.
New York: 54% own.
U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024. Historic houses: National Register of Historic Places.
A two-bedroom rents for about $1,170
Renters already here pay a median of $1,061, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.
Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Watertown-Fort Drum, NY MSA): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.
Orleans vs. its neighbors
Orleans is the 4th least expensive of 7 neighboring towns. Tap one to see its housing page.
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| Town | Typical value | 1-yr change | 2-bed rent | New homes 2025 | Median income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Orleans | $190K* | — | $1,170 | — | $77,500 |
| Pamelia | $168K* | +1.3%† | $1,330 | — | $66,850 |
| Clayton | $336K | +7.4% | $1,190 | 0 | $90,357 |
| Alexandria | $173K* | — | $1,160 | — | $85,020 |
| Theresa | $216K | +6.1% | $1,160 | 9 | $69,500 |
| Le Ray | $186K* | — | $1,480 | — | $63,073 |
| Brownville | $217K | +0.8% | $1,210 | — | $88,071 |
Typical value: Zillow Home Value Index; * Census median home value where Zillow has none. † FHFA price index change where Zillow has none. Rent: HUD Fair Market Rent. New homes: Census building permits.
On the market in Orleans
Listed in the past 60 days. Each opens on the listing site.
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Home values: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), Zillow Research. Sales, days on market and supply: Redfin Data Center. Income, ownership, taxes and rent: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey. Fair Market Rents: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Historic houses: National Register of Historic Places. Listings link to their publishers. The calculator is an estimate, not a loan offer.