Fort Edward, New York.
Typical home $283,092 (+5.0% in a year). Glens Falls, NY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$159 (+12%) since Jan 2024.
- 1 year
- Up $13,584 +5%
- $269,508$283,092 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.
- Fort Edward$1,486
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Fort Edward, NY rose 5.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Fort Edward, Washington County, New York
Fort Edward is a village of 3,108 people in Washington County. Unemployment in Washington County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Fort Edward is a small village in Washington County, in upstate New York, on the Hudson River. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and highs staying around freezing, and summers are warm without being hot, so the town sees the full turn of the seasons. Rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the year. Compared with the county as a whole, fewer adults here hold a four-year degree, and a good share of households live below the poverty line.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and the building trades also employing a good number. Irving Consumer Products, which makes paper towels in paper mills, is among the largest workplaces in the village, along with the Fort Edward Union Free School District and the New York State Canal. Most people travel a moderate distance to work, and some work from home.
Things to do. Bakers Falls, a waterfall, sits in or beside town. A short drive away are Moreau Lake State Park, a protected area for walking and time outdoors, and Great Escape, an amusement park. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to Lake George and the old fort at Fort William Henry.
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- 1,241households
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Washington County had 14,858 jobs in 2025, 0.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 30° and lows near 10°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 58°. About 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Glens Falls Airport weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Fort Edward
- Irving Consumer ProductsPaper towels made in paper mills330
- Fort Edward Union Free School DistrictSchool district92FTE
- New York State CanalCanal operation37
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 367 people in all. School districts come 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
- LightningRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Fort Edward’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 Washington County and the Glens Falls, NY metro.
Fort Edward home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Fort Edward$283,092
- New York$524,942
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Fort Edward listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Fort Edward21
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Fort Edward7
Zip codes with a Fort Edward address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Fort Edward — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.