Hammond, New York.
Typical home $183,582 (+8.0% in a year). Ogdensburg-Massena, NY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$569 (+144%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $13,587 +8%
- $169,994$183,582 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $50,921 +38%
- $132,661$183,582 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.
- Hammond$964
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Hammond, NY rose 8.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hammond, St. Lawrence County, New York
Hammond is a village of 273 people in St. Lawrence County. Half its households earn more than $56,917 a year and half less, against $62,850 across St. Lawrence County. 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hammond is a very small village in St. Lawrence County, in the northern part of New York State. Household incomes here run below the county's, and a typical home is valued modestly. Winters are long and cold, with a great deal of snow, and summers are pleasantly warm.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, restaurants and hotels, and manufacturing also employing many. The trip to work is of moderate length, and very few people work from home. Across St. Lawrence County, the biggest employers include Canton-Potsdam Hospital, Clarkson University and St Lawrence University, and the job market there has been roughly steady, with unemployment close to where it stood a year earlier.
Things to do. Water is close at hand. Black Lake is a lake a short drive away, and Cedar Island State Park, a protected area, is also a short drive from the village. For a longer outing, the St. Lawrence River, one of the best known rivers in the region, is a longer drive away.
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- 22 mintypical commute
- 2%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, 11 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; Hammond has one 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
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Hammond’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 St. Lawrence County and the Ogdensburg-Massena, NY metro.
Hammond home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hammond$183,582
- New York$524,942
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Hammond 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.
- Hammond25.27%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Hammond32
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Hammond5
Zip codes with a Hammond address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hammond — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.