Glen Park, New York.
Typical home $173,150 (-1.8% in a year). Watertown-Fort Drum, NY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$441 (+94%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $3,114 -2%
- $176,264$173,150 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $28,284 +20%
- $144,866$173,150 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.
- Glen Park$909
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 19 years.
Typical home values in Glen Park, NY fell 1.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Glen Park, Jefferson County, New York
Glen Park is a village of 452 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Glen Park is a very small village in Jefferson County, in northern New York, with far fewer residents than most towns of any kind. Winters are cold and long, with January the coldest month and highs staying below freezing, while summers are mild and pleasant. Rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year, a fair amount of it as snow in the cold months.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in restaurants and hotels, and in government. The typical commute is short, and very few people work from home. Across Jefferson County, the largest workplaces include Samaritan Medical Center, the Indian River Central School District and Carthage Central School District. Homes cost less than in much of the country, and the county's unemployment rate has changed very little over the past year.
Things to do. Kelsey Creek runs in or beside town, and Watertown Speedway, a race track, is also close by. A short drive away are Black River, Thompson Park and Perch Lake, a reservoir. For a longer outing, the St. Lawrence River is a longer drive away.
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- 14 mintypical commute
- 2%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 30° and lows near 10°; warmest in July, with highs near 79° and lows near 59°. About 37 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Watertown International Airport weather station, 3 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; Glen Park 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 Glen Park’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 Jefferson County and the Watertown-Fort Drum, NY metro.
Glen Park home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Glen Park$173,150
- 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 Glen Park address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Glen Park — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.