Brewerton, New York.
Typical home $335,494 (+6.6% in a year). Syracuse, NY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,099 (+166%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $20,649 +7%
- $314,845$335,494 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $110,042 +49%
- $225,452$335,494 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.
- Brewerton$1,761
- 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 Brewerton, NY rose 6.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Brewerton, Onondaga County, New York
Brewerton, in Onondaga County, had 3,907 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $82,813 a year and half less, against $76,945 across Onondaga County. 76% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 24% are rented. Unemployment in Onondaga County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 2.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Brewerton is a small community in Onondaga County. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes run a little above the county's. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers are pleasantly warm, and a fair amount of rain and melted snow falls over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by professional and business services, manufacturing and shops. Across Onondaga County, some of the largest workplaces are Syracuse University, University Hospital at Syracuse and Amazon. Many adults hold a four-year degree, and the typical commute is a modest one, with some people working from home.
Things to do. Fort Brewerton sits in or beside town and is a place to connect with the area's history. The Oneida River is a short drive away, and Oneida Lake is a longer drive for time on the water. For a game or an event, JMA Wireless Dome is a stadium a longer drive away.
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- 1,606households
- 38%of adults have a degree
- 21 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Onondaga County had 250,251 jobs in 2025, 2.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 31° and lows near 13°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 58°. About 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Brewerton Lock weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Onondaga County
- University Hospital at SyracuseGeneral hospital5,937FTE
- Syracuse UniversityUniversity or college5,913
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage4,252
- Syracuse City School DistrictSchool district3,988FTE
- St. Josephs Hospital Health CenterGeneral hospital2,546FTE
- Lockheed Martin Corporation US NY Syracuse Electroncs Pkwy (1021)Aeronautical systems and instruments manufacturing2,478
- Crouse HospitalGeneral hospital2,233FTE
- Upstate Medical UniversityUniversity or college1,766
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 523 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 70,333 people in all across the county; Brewerton has two 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Brewerton’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 Onondaga County and the Syracuse, NY metro.
Brewerton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Brewerton$335,494
- 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.
- Brewerton17
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Brewerton11
Zip codes with a Brewerton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Brewerton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.