Lee Center, New York.
. Utica-Rome, NY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,478 (+116%) since Jan 2020.
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.
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
Living in Lee Center, Oneida County, New York
The Census does not count Lee Center on its own, so the figures here are Oneida County's. Half the county's households earn more than $70,154 a year and half less; 16% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 68% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 32% are rented. Unemployment in Oneida County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Oneida County work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Lee Center is a town in Oneida County, New York. Across the county, most homes are lived in by their owners, and a minority of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold and snowy, summers are warm, and rain and melted snow fall throughout the year.
Work. Residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, shops, manufacturing, and professional and business services. Unemployment across Oneida County has edged up slightly over the past year, and the county has seen a small drop in jobs. Relatively few residents work from home, so most commute to work.
Things to do. The Mohawk River is a river a short drive away and is the best known of the nearby places. Oneida Lake, a lake a longer drive away, is another option, and Fort Stanwix National Monument, a historic fort and protected area, is a short drive away.
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- 95,220households
- 40.7median age
- 28%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What people in Oneida County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Oneida County had 101,447 jobs in 2025, 1.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 30° and lows near 13°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 60°. About 44 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Rome Griffiss Airfield weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Oneida County
- Resource Center for Independent LivingSelf-help organizations for disabled persons, the elderly, and persons diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities3,210
- Faxton-st. Lukes HealthcareGeneral hospital2,347FTE
- Utica City School DistrictSchool district1,559FTE
- St. Elizabeth Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,027FTE
- Rome City School DistrictSchool district925FTE
- WalmartGeneral warehousing and storage919
- PAR TechnologyPoint of sale terminals manufacturing873
- Hamilton CollegeUniversity or college866
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 214 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 26,823 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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 weatherVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Oneida County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Oneida County and the Utica-Rome, NY metro.
Lee Center home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Lee Center6
Zip codes with a Lee Center address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lee Center — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.