Altmar, New York.
Typical home $182,594 (+8.1% in a year). Syracuse, NY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$591 (+161%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $13,631 +8%
- $168,963$182,594 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $56,473 +45%
- $126,122$182,594 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.
- Altmar$958
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 9 years.
Typical home values in Altmar, NY rose 8.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Altmar, Oswego County, New York
Altmar, in Oswego County, had 357 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $46,250 a year and half less, against $69,183 across Oswego County. Unemployment in Oswego County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Oswego County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Altmar is a very small community in Oswego County, with far fewer people than most towns in the state. Household incomes here run well below the county's, and homes are modestly priced. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are mild and warm, with July the warmest. Rain and melted snow add up to a good deal over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, manufacturing and the building trades also common. The commute is short, and very few people work from home. Across Oswego County, the largest workplaces include State University of New York at Oswego, Novelis Oswego Works and Oswego Hospital.
Things to do. Selkirk Shores State Park is a protected area a short drive away, and Salmon River Falls, a waterfall, is also a short drive from town. Farther afield, Oneida Lake is a longer drive away, and it is one of the larger lakes in the state.
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- 17 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What people in Oswego County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Oswego County had 32,477 jobs in 2025, 1.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 29° and lows near 11°; warmest in July, with highs near 78° and lows near 57°. About 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Pulaski weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Oswego County
- State University of New York at OswegoUniversity or college1,232
- Novelis Oswego WorksAluminum sheet made by flat rolling purchased aluminum1,117
- Oswego HospitalGeneral hospital873FTE
- Central Square Central School DistrictSchool district694FTE
- Oswego City School DistrictSchool district682FTE
- Fulton City School DistrictSchool district659FTE
- ConstellationElectric power generation, nuclear555
- Mexico Central School DistrictSchool district448FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 56 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 8,092 people in all across the county; Altmar has none 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Altmar’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 Oswego County and the Syracuse, NY metro.
Altmar home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Altmar$182,594
- 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.
- Altmar14
Zip codes with a Altmar address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Altmar — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.