Newport, 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 Newport, Herkimer County, New York
Newport is a village of 543 people in Herkimer County. Half its households earn more than $86,750 a year and half less, against $68,515 across Herkimer County; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Newport is a small village in Herkimer County, one of the smaller places in the county. Household incomes here run higher than across the county as a whole, and fewer residents live below the poverty line than you might expect for the region. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while July brings the warmest days, and the year is a wet one, with plenty of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, manufacturing and the building trades. Across Herkimer County, some of the largest workplaces are the Tractor Supply Company Distribution Center, Walmart and Herkimer County Community College. Many people drive a fair way to work, and some now do their jobs from home.
Things to do. Water is the main feature close by. Shed Brook, White Creek and City Brook run in or beside the village, and Cold Brook and Cincinnati Creek are a short drive away. For a longer outing, the Mohawk River is a longer drive away, as is Fort Stanwix, a historic fort.
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- 203households
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 11%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 29° and lows near 10°; warmest in July, with highs near 79° and lows near 58°. About 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Trenton Falls weather station, 9 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; Newport 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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Newport’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.
Newport 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.
- Newport9
Zip codes with a Newport address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Newport — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.