Edwards, New York.
Typical home $102,376 (+2.9% in a year). Ogdensburg-Massena, NY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$275 (+105%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,862 +3%
- $99,514$102,376 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $15,337 +18%
- $87,039$102,376 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.
- Edwards$537
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 21 years.
Typical home values in Edwards, NY rose 2.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Edwards, St. Lawrence County, New York
Edwards, in St. Lawrence County, had 361 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Edwards is a very small community in St. Lawrence County, in the north of New York State, where neighbors tend to know one another. Fewer adults here hold a four-year degree than is typical across the country, and a larger share of people live below the poverty line than in many places. Homes are priced modestly, and the typical commute is a fairly long one.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and in manufacturing. Few people work from home. Across St. Lawrence County, some of the largest workplaces are Canton-Potsdam Hospital, Clarkson University and St Lawrence University, and the county has seen slightly fewer jobs than the year before, with unemployment close to where it stood a year earlier.
Things to do. The West Branch Oswegatchie River and the North Branch Grass River are both a short drive away, and are rivers for anyone who likes time by the water. Farther out, High Falls is a waterfall and Higley Flow State Park is a protected area, both a longer drive away. Winters are long, cold and very snowy, with the coldest weather in January, while summers are pleasantly warm, and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
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- 176households
- 14%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
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 5°; warmest in July, with highs near 79° and lows near 57°. About 92 inches of snow and 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Gouverneur Northwest weather station, 13 miles 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; Edwards has none 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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Edwards’ 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 St. Lawrence County and the Ogdensburg-Massena, NY metro.
Edwards home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Edwards$102,376
- 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.
Zip codes with a Edwards address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Edwards — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.