Camden, New York.
Typical home $204,076 (+5.0% in a year). Utica-Rome, NY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$211 (+24%) since Jan 2024.
- 1 year
- Up $9,658 +5%
- $194,418$204,076 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.
- Camden$1,071
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Camden, NY rose 5.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Camden, Oneida County, New York
Camden is a village of 2,196 people in Oneida County. Half its households earn more than $78,375 a year and half less, against $70,154 across Oneida County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 71% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 29% are rented. Unemployment in Oneida County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% fewer 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Camden is a small village in Oneida County, where most homes are lived in by their owners and incomes run higher than across the county as a whole. Residents are somewhat younger than in many older upstate communities, and a four-year degree is held by a minority of adults. Winters are cold and very snowy, with a January that stays well below freezing, while July brings warm, comfortable highs and rain and snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with professional and business services, government and shops also employing many. The largest workplaces in Camden include the Camden Central School District and International Wire Group, which draws copper into wire and other copper products. Bliss Environmental Services, a garbage collection company, is also among the biggest employers, and a good number of residents work from home.
Things to do. Oneida Lake is the nearest well-known stretch of water, a lake a longer drive away, and Verona Beach State Park, a protected area on the same side of the county, is also a longer drive. For a different kind of outing, Fort Stanwix, a historic fort, is a longer drive away as well. Given the snowfall, it makes sense to plan any of these trips around the season.
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- 1,045households
- 28%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 13%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Oneida County had 101,447 jobs in 2025, 1.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 29° and lows near 11°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 56°. About 151 inches of snow and 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Camden weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Camden
- Camden Central School DistrictSchool district376FTE
- International Wire GroupCopper products made by drawing purchased copper249
- International Wire GroupCopper products made by drawing purchased copper57
- Bliss Environmental ServicesGarbage collection services42
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 348 people in all. School districts come 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
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Camden’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 Oneida County and the Utica-Rome, NY metro.
Camden home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Camden$204,076
- New York$524,942
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Camden listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Camden24.14%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Camden32
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Camden7
Zip codes with a Camden address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Camden — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.