Croghan, New York.
Typical home $200,674 (+4.4% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$122 (+13%) since Jan 2024.
- 1 year
- Up $8,534 +4%
- $192,140$200,674 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.
- Croghan$1,053
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Croghan, NY rose 4.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Croghan, Lewis County, New York
Croghan is a village of 639 people in Lewis County. Half its households earn more than $51,731 a year and half less, against $68,182 across Lewis County; 19% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Lewis County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 1.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Lewis 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Croghan is a very small village in Lewis County, home to far fewer people than most towns that appear on a map. Household incomes here run below the county's, and a larger share of residents live below the poverty line than you might expect, though a typical home costs well under what many Americans pay for housing. Winters are long and cold, with January the coldest month and a great deal of snow, far more than most of the country sees, while July is pleasantly warm and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, the building trades and shops also employing many. Few work from home, and a four-year degree is held by fewer adults than in much of the country. Across Lewis County, some of the largest workplaces are Kraftheinz Lowville, a cheese manufacturer, Lewis County General Hospital, and the Lowville Academy & Central School District.
Things to do. Water is the main draw around Croghan. High Falls Pond, a reservoir, lies in or beside town, and the Beaver River is a short drive away. For a longer drive, Brantingham Lake is a lake to visit, and Whetstone Gulf State Park is a protected area worth the extra distance.
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- 312households
- 19%of adults have a degree
- 19%below the poverty line
- 4%work from home
What people in Lewis County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lewis County had 7,072 jobs in 2025, 1.7% more 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 78° and lows near 57°. About 127 inches of snow and 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lowville weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lewis County
- Kraftheinz LowvilleCheese manufacturing425
- Lewis County General HospitalCritical access hospital367FTE
- Lowville Academy & Central School DistrictSchool district235FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters231
- South Lewis Central School DistrictSchool district224FTE
- Beaver River Central School DistrictSchool district180FTE
- Viking Cives USASnow plow attachments manufacturing138
- Copenhagen Central School DistrictSchool district100FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 16 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,466 people in all across the county; Croghan has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) 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
- Ice stormsrelatively high in parts of CroghanRelatively 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 Croghan’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Lewis County.
Croghan home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Croghan$200,674
- 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.
- Croghan7
Zip codes with a Croghan address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Croghan — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.