Colton, New York.
Typical home $194,686 (+8.1% in a year). Ogdensburg-Massena, NY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$559 (+121%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,635 +8%
- $180,051$194,686 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $44,786 +30%
- $149,900$194,686 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.
- Colton$1,022
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Colton, NY rose 8.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Colton, St. Lawrence County, New York
Colton, in St. Lawrence County, had 348 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Colton is a very small community in St. Lawrence County, in the northern part of New York. Few households here live below the poverty line, and typical home values sit at a level many would call modest. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while July brings warm summer days, and a good deal of rain and melted snow falls over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and in manufacturing. Across St. Lawrence County, the largest workplaces include Canton-potsdam Hospital, Clarkson University and St Lawrence University. Unemployment across the county is a little higher than a year ago, and the county has about the same number of jobs as it did the year before.
Things to do. Higley Flow State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away. Higley Falls Reservoir and South Colton Reservoir are also short drives, and make good places for time by the water. For a longer drive, the Oswegatchie River is one of the better known waterways nearby.
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- 2%below the poverty line
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 26° and lows near 6°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 58°. About 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Colton North weather station, a mile 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; Colton 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Colton’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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 St. Lawrence County and the Ogdensburg-Massena, NY metro.
Colton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Colton$194,686
- 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.
- Colton8
Zip codes with a Colton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Colton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.