Brasher Falls, New York.
Typical home $143,919 (+6.6% in a year). Ogdensburg-Massena, NY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$426 (+130%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,959 +7%
- $134,960$143,919 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $31,015 +27%
- $112,904$143,919 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.
- Brasher Falls$755
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Brasher Falls, NY rose 6.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Brasher Falls, St. Lawrence County, New York
Brasher Falls, in St. Lawrence County, had 674 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in St. Lawrence County was 5.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in St. Lawrence 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Brasher Falls is a very small community in St. Lawrence County in northern New York, where neighbors are likely to know one another. Homes here are priced well below what is typical across much of the country, and household incomes across the county run below the national level. Winters are long and cold, with a great deal of snow, and summers are pleasantly warm.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, restaurants and hotels, or in manufacturing. A four-year degree is held by fewer adults here than in most places, and the usual trip to work is short. Across St. Lawrence County, some of the largest workplaces are Canton-potsdam Hospital, Clarkson University and St Lawrence University, and unemployment in the county has stayed close to where it was a year earlier.
Things to do. The countryside around the town is made for time outdoors, and the Raquette River, a river a longer drive away, is the best known of the nearby places. Coles Creek State Park is a protected area, also a longer drive away, and Titus Mountain is a ski area that suits the snowy winters. The Akwesasne Cultural Center, a museum, is another longer drive away.
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- 10%of adults have a degree
- 18 mintypical commute
- 1%work from home
What people in St. Lawrence County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. St. Lawrence County had 34,712 jobs in 2025, 0.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 27° and lows near 8°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 59°. About 75 inches of snow and 39 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lawrenceville Southwest weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in St. Lawrence County
- Canton-potsdam HospitalGeneral hospital1,143FTE
- Clarkson UniversityUniversity or college765
- St Lawrence UniversityUniversity or college756
- SUNY College at PotsdamUniversity or college673
- Claxton Hepburn Medical CenterGeneral hospital535FTE
- SUNY College of Technology at CantonUniversity or college507
- Alcoa USAPrimary aluminum production and manufacturing aluminum shapes483
- Massena Central School DistrictSchool district475FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 74 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 8,291 people in all across the county; Brasher Falls has one 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Brasher Falls’ 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 St. Lawrence County and the Ogdensburg-Massena, NY metro.
Brasher Falls home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Brasher Falls$143,919
- 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.
- Brasher Falls12
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Brasher Falls4
Zip codes with a Brasher Falls address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Brasher Falls — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.