Au Sable Forks, New York.
Typical home $211,081 (+5.6% in a year). Plattsburgh, NY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$595 (+116%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,278 +6%
- $199,803$211,081 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $44,720 +27%
- $166,361$211,081 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.
- Au Sable Forks$1,108
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Au Sable Forks, NY rose 5.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Au Sable Forks, Clinton County, New York
Au Sable Forks, in Clinton County, had 509 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $52,656 a year and half less, against $71,224 across Clinton County. 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Au Sable Forks is a very small community in Clinton County, in the northeastern part of New York. Household incomes here run below the county's, and the typical home is valued modestly. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and freezing lows, and summers are warm without being hot.
Work. Residents mostly work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and restaurants and hotels also employing many people. Across Clinton County, the largest workplaces include Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital, SUNY College at Plattsburgh and Schluter Systems. Commutes are fairly long, and very few people work from home. The county has lost some jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Taylor Pond, a reservoir, and Santa's Workshop, an amusement park, are both a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to Lake Placid Winter Olympic Museum, and to Lake Champlain, a large lake on the region's edge.
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- 29 mintypical commute
- 1%work from home
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 28° and lows near 10°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 60°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Peru Wsw weather station, 9 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; Au Sable Forks 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- 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 Au Sable Forks’ 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.
Au Sable Forks home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Au Sable Forks$211,081
- 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.
- Au Sable Forks16
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Au Sable Forks4
Zip codes with a Au Sable Forks address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Au Sable Forks — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.