Champlain, New York.
Typical home $204,035 (+6.9% in a year). Plattsburgh, NY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$175 (+20%) since Jan 2024.
- 1 year
- Up $13,137 +7%
- $190,898$204,035 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.
- Champlain$1,071
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Champlain, NY rose 6.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Champlain, Clinton County, New York
Champlain is a village of 1,170 people in 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Champlain is a small village in northern New York, and it is small enough that most people know one another by sight. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and freezing temperatures common, while summers are pleasantly warm, with July the warmest month. Fewer adults here hold a four-year degree than is typical across the state, and some people work from home.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and restaurants and hotels also employing a good number. Across Clinton County, the largest workplaces include Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital, SUNY College at Plattsburgh and Schluter Systems. Jobs across the county slipped a little last year, and unemployment is about where it was a year earlier.
Things to do. The Richelieu River and the Great Chazy River are both a short drive away, and the area is good for time spent by the water. Fort Montgomery, a fort a short drive away, is a reminder of the border country's long history. For a longer outing, Point Au Roche State Park is a protected area a longer drive away.
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- 27%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 9%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 63°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Chazy weather station, 8 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; Champlain 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
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Champlain’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 Clinton County and the Plattsburgh, NY metro.
Champlain home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Champlain$204,035
- 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.
- Champlain11
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Champlain address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Champlain — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.