Greig, New York.
Typical home $245,721 (+6.8% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$224 (+21%) since Jan 2024.
- 1 year
- Up $15,607 +7%
- $230,114$245,721 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.
- Greig$1,290
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Greig, NY rose 6.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Greig, Lewis County, New York
Greig is a town of 1,179 people in Lewis County. 88% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 12% are rented. 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 residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Greig is a small town in Lewis County, where most homes are lived in by their owners, so many neighbors have put down roots. Incomes here sit well below the county's, and a good number of residents live below the poverty line. Winters are long and very snowy, with January the coldest month and highs staying below freezing, while July brings pleasantly warm days.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, the building trades and manufacturing. Across Lewis County, the largest workplaces include Kraftheinz Lowville, a cheese manufacturer, along with Lewis County General Hospital and the Lowville Academy & Central School District. A modest share of residents work from home, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many places.
Things to do. Little Pine Lake is in or beside town, and several other lakes are a short drive away, including Brantingham Lake and Big Otter Lake. For a longer outing, Whetstone Gulf State Park is a protected area a longer drive away. With so much snow each year, the winters shape how people spend their time outdoors.
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- 488households
- 25%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 10%work from home
What residents 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 26° and lows near 6°; warmest in July, with highs near 75° and lows near 54°. About 158 inches of snow and 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Old Forge weather station, 11 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; Greig 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
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Lewis County, 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.
Greig home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Greig$245,721
- 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 Greig address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Greig — 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.