Living Near Albany, NY

1 of the 101 towns sit within fifty driving minutes of Albany, NY. Minutes are town centre to workplace on open roads, without traffic, your street and your rush hour will differ.

Albany, NY, the point the drive times are measured to

35 to 50 minutes

Towns 35 to 50 minutes of Albany, NY: the drive, the median assessed home, the tax on it, wired internet and whether the town's own schools run through grade 12. Towns listed alphabetically.
Town	Drive	Median Home (Assessed)	Tax on Median	Wired Internet	Schools Through 12
West Stockbridge Berkshire	47 min	$535,700	$5,629/yr	cable	yes

Reading This Honestly

Drive times are computed town centre to workplace over the open road network, free of traffic. A hilltown's own roads, snow, and rush hour all add real minutes.
Median home values are assessed values from the towns' own rolls, asking prices run different, usually higher.
Our Massachusetts main-file extract excludes interstate commutes, so this site has no recorded job counts for Albany, NY. That does not mean nobody makes the drive.
"Tuitions out" means older students attend a neighbouring district by arrangement, every grade has a school.

Sources

Drive times from openrouteservice by HeiGIT, map data from OpenStreetMap; town assessment rolls and certified tax rates. Checked 2026-11-02.
Federal commute census (LODES). Figures through 2022.

"Figures through" is the period the publisher's data describes; "checked" is only when we last asked. The full sourcing: sources and method.