Johnstown, New York.
Typical home $206,247 (+2.6% in a year). Gloversville, NY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$107 (+11%) since Jan 2024.
- 1 year
- Up $5,234 +3%
- $201,013$206,247 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.
- Johnstown$1,083
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Johnstown, NY rose 2.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Johnstown, Fulton County, New York
Johnstown is a city of 8,204 people in Fulton County. Half its households earn more than $63,763 a year and half less, against $66,533 across Fulton County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 60% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 40% are rented. Unemployment in Fulton County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Johnstown is a small city in Fulton County, in upstate New York, and its residents skew older than in many places. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and typical home values and household incomes sit a little below the county's. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers are mild, and a good deal of rain and melted snow falls through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, with others in professional and business services. Some of the largest workplaces in Johnstown are makers and shippers, among them FAGE USA Dairy Industry, which makes yogurt, Benjamin Moore and Company, a paint maker, and DHL Supply Chain. Commutes are short, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in much of the country.
Things to do. Johnson Hall State Historic Site, a protected historic area, lies in or beside town. A short drive away are the Caughnawaga Indian Village Site, an archaeological site, and Mountain Lake, a small lake. Great Sacandaga Lake, a large reservoir, is a longer drive away.
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- 3,943households
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 19 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Fulton County had 16,163 jobs in 2025, 0.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 24° and lows near 7°; warmest in July, with highs near 77° and lows near 56°. About 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Gloversville 7NW (peck Lake) weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Johnstown
- FAGE USA Dairy IndustryYogurt manufacturing292
- Pioneer Window MfgFrames, door and window, metal, manufacturing233
- DHL Supply ChainMotor freight transportation and warehousing190
- EuphratesCheese manufacturing183
- Benjamin Moore and CompanyPaints manufacturing172
- Century Linen- JohnstownLaundries, linen and uniform supply70
- The Fulton-Schoharie Counties Chapter,NYSARC, Inc., dba-The Arc LexingtonGeneral warehousing and storage70
- Electro-Metrics HQHygrothermographs manufacturing54
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 13 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,424 people in all. 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
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Johnstown’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 Fulton County and the Gloversville, NY metro.
Johnstown home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Johnstown$206,247
- New York$524,942
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 2 Johnstown listings — the market is cooling.
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.
- Johnstown44.23%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Johnstown43
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Johnstown15
Zip codes with a Johnstown address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Johnstown — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.