Evans Mills, New York.
Typical home $266,744 (+6.3% in a year), asking rent $1,435 . Watertown-Fort Drum, NY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$717 (+105%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $15,859 +6%
- $250,885$266,744 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $53,340 +25%
- $213,404$266,744 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.
- Evans Mills$1,400
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Evans Mills, NY rose 6.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Evans Mills, Jefferson County, New York
Evans Mills is a village of 678 people in Jefferson County. Unemployment in Jefferson County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Jefferson 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Evans Mills is a small village in Jefferson County, in northern New York. It is a quiet place where most days are spent close to home. Winters are long, cold and very snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers are pleasantly warm and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year. Homes here are priced below what many buyers would expect in other parts of the state, and the share of households living in poverty is modest.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in restaurants and hotels, or in government. Across Jefferson County, some of the largest workplaces are Samaritan Medical Center, the Indian River Central School District and Car-freshner. The ride to work is short for most people, and very few work from home. Joblessness across the county is close to where it stood a year ago, and the number of jobs has edged up slightly.
Things to do. For a short outing, Thompson Park is a park a short drive away, and Kelsey Creek is a stream close by as well. A longer drive brings you to the St. Lawrence River, one of the best known waterways in the region, and to Wellesley Island State Park, a protected area along it. Snowy winters mean the outdoors looks quite different from one season to the next.
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- 11%below the poverty line
- 16 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What people in Jefferson County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jefferson County had 40,563 jobs in 2025, 0.6% more 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 80° and lows near 62°. About 116 inches of snow and 44 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Watertown weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Jefferson County
- Samaritan Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,581FTE
- Indian River Central School DistrictSchool district770FTE
- Carthage Central School DistrictSchool district679FTE
- The Arc Jefferson-St LawrenceGroup homes, intellectual and developmental disability678
- Watertown City School DistrictSchool district637FTE
- Car-freshnerAirfreshners manufacturing490
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters381
- Carthage Area HospitalCritical access hospital367FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 75 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 9,661 people in all across the county; Evans Mills 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 moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Evans Mills’ 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 Jefferson County and the Watertown-Fort Drum, NY metro.
Evans Mills home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Evans Mills$266,744
- 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.
- Evans Mills14
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Evans Mills6
Zip codes with a Evans Mills address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Evans Mills — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.