Beaver Dams, New York.
Typical home $171,466 (+6.6% in a year). Corning, NY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$41 (+5%) since Nov 2023.
- 1 year
- Up $10,599 +7%
- $160,867$171,466 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.
- Beaver Dams$900
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Beaver Dams, NY rose 6.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Beaver Dams, Schuyler County, New York
The Census does not count Beaver Dams on its own, so the figures here are Schuyler County's. Half the county's households earn more than $67,663 a year and half less; 15% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 79% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 21% are rented. Unemployment in Schuyler County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 2.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Schuyler County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Beaver Dams sits in Schuyler County in the Finger Lakes region of New York State, where the land is shaped by long, narrow lakes and wooded hills. Across Schuyler County, most homes are lived in by their owners rather than rented. Winters are colder than in most of the country, and the year is wet, with plenty of rain and snowmelt.
Work. Across Schuyler County, more jobs were added last year than the year before, and unemployment is lower than it was a year earlier. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in shops, or in the building trades. Few people across the county work from home, so most people commute to a workplace.
Things to do. Watkins Glen International, a race track, is a short drive away, and Watkins Glen State Park, a protected area of gorges and trails, is also close by. The Corning Museum of Glass, a museum, is a longer drive away.
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- 7,355households
- 47.6median age
- 26%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What people in Schuyler County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Schuyler County had 5,185 jobs in 2025, 2.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 34° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 58°. About 32 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Elmira Corning Regional Airport weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Schuyler County
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters236
- Schuyler HospitalCritical access hospital209FTE
- Watkins Glen Central School DistrictSchool district208FTE
- US SaltSalt evaporation204
- Welliver McGuireOffice building construction140
- Odessa-montour Central School DistrictSchool district133FTE
- Cargill Salt - Watkins GlenSalt, table, manufacturing127
- The Baillie GroupWood chips made in sawmills116
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 10 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,316 people in all. Hospitals come 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
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Schuyler County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Schuyler County and the Corning, NY metro.
Beaver Dams home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Beaver Dams$171,466
- 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.
- Beaver Dams7
Zip codes with a Beaver Dams address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Beaver Dams — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.