Mohawk, New York.
Typical home $175,203 (+7.9% in a year). Utica-Rome, NY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$522 (+132%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,842 +8%
- $162,361$175,203 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $53,599 +44%
- $121,604$175,203 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.
- Mohawk$920
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 9 years.
Typical home values in Mohawk, NY rose 7.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Mohawk, Herkimer County, New York
Mohawk is a village of 2,415 people in Herkimer County. 72% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 28% are rented. Unemployment in Herkimer County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 2.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Herkimer 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Mohawk is a village in Herkimer County, in the Mohawk Valley of upstate New York. Residents are older than the typical American community, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and highs staying around freezing, while July is pleasantly warm.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, manufacturing and the building trades also common. Across Herkimer County, some of the largest workplaces are the Tractor Supply Company Distribution Center, Walmart and the Central Valley school district at Ilion-Mohawk. Commutes are moderate, and a modest number of people work from home.
Things to do. Fort Dayton and West Canada Creek are in or beside town, a historic fort site and a river to explore close to home. Farther afield, a longer drive reaches the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, and Otsego Lake is also a longer drive away for time by the water.
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- 1,143households
- 24%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What people in Herkimer County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Herkimer County had 15,878 jobs in 2025, 2.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 30° and lows near 11°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 58°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Little Falls City Rsch weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Herkimer County
- Tractor Supply Company Distribution CenterGeneral warehousing and storage425
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters422
- Central Valley CSD at Ilion-mohawkSchool district364FTE
- Herkimer County Community CollegeTwo-year college253
- Mount Markham Central School DistrictSchool district192FTE
- Foltsbrook CenterHome nursing services, private practice190
- Little Falls City School DistrictSchool district183FTE
- Little Falls HospitalCritical access hospital174FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 37 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,360 people in all across the county; Mohawk has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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 moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Mohawk’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 Herkimer County and the Utica-Rome, NY metro.
Mohawk home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Mohawk$175,203
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Mohawk10
Zip codes with a Mohawk address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mohawk — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.