Altona, New York.
Typical home $147,888 (+13.2% in a year). Plattsburgh, NY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$100 (+15%) since Jan 2024.
- 1 year
- Up $17,194 +13%
- $130,695$147,888 since Sep 2025
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.
- Altona$776
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Altona, NY rose 13.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Altona, Clinton County, New York
Altona, in Clinton County, had 662 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Clinton County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 2.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Clinton County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Altona is a very small community in Clinton County, in the northern reaches of New York. Homes here are priced well below the county's household incomes would suggest, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are long, cold and very snowy, with January the coldest month, while July brings pleasantly warm days, and the year is fairly wet overall.
Work. People in Altona work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and restaurants and hotels also employing many residents. Across Clinton County, the largest workplaces include Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital, SUNY College at Plattsburgh and Schluter Systems. Unemployment across the county is the same as it was a year ago, and the county has somewhat fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. Lake Champlain, the best known of the nearby waters, is a longer drive away and draws people to the shore. Point Au Roche State Park, a protected area, is also a longer drive away, as is Fort Montgomery, an old fort worth a visit for its history.
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- 6%of adults have a degree
What people in Clinton County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Clinton County had 31,572 jobs in 2025, 2.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 26° and lows near 7°; warmest in July, with highs near 78° and lows near 58°. About 107 inches of snow and 36 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Ellenburg Depot weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Clinton County
- Champlain Valley Physicians HospitalGeneral hospital1,754FTE
- SUNY College at PlattsburghUniversity or college867
- Schluter SystemsBuilding materials, plastics, manufacturing854
- Advocacy and Resource CenterSelf-help organizations for disabled persons, the elderly, and persons diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities679
- Behavioral Health Services NorthOutpatient mental health centers and clinics585
- Mold-Rite PlasticsAnodizing equipment manufacturing430
- Peru Central School DistrictSchool district414FTE
- Beekmantown Central School DistrictSchool district412FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 64 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 8,470 people in all across the county; Altona has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Altona’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Clinton County and the Plattsburgh, NY metro.
Altona home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Altona$147,888
- 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.
- Altona6
Zip codes with a Altona address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Altona — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.