North River, New York.
Typical home $363,288 (+7.2% in a year). Glens Falls, NY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,140 (+149%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $24,251 +7%
- $339,037$363,288 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $99,385 +38%
- $263,903$363,288 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.
- North River$1,907
- 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 North River, NY rose 7.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in North River, Warren County, New York
The Census does not count North River on its own, so the figures here are Warren County's. Half the county's households earn more than $78,442 a year and half less; 10% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 72% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 28% are rented. Unemployment in Warren County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Warren 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. North River sits in Warren County in the Adirondack region of northern New York, where winters are cold and snowfall is heavy, more than in most of the country. Most homes across the county are lived in by their owners, and residents tend to be older than the national average. Summers are warm, and the town is a quiet place among hills and lakes.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in professional and business services, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Unemployment across the county has stayed low and has barely changed over the past year, and the number of jobs has held nearly steady. Commutes are shorter than in many larger places, and a small share of workers do their jobs from home.
Things to do. Puffer Pond is in or beside town, a lake for walks and time outdoors. Gore Mountain, a ski area, is a short drive away and popular in winter. Fort William Henry, a fort, lies a longer drive off.
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- 30,133households
- 46.8median age
- 36%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What people in Warren County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Warren County had 36,915 jobs in 2025, 0.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 25° and lows near 6°; warmest in July, with highs near 75° and lows near 54°. About 102 inches of snow and 44 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Indian Lake 2SW weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Warren County
- Glens Falls HospitalGeneral hospital1,734FTE
- Warren CountyGeneral accounting offices, government612
- Finch PaperPulp mills producing paper594
- Queensbury Union Free School DistrictSchool district503FTE
- AngioDynamics - QueensburyCatheters manufacturing434
- SUNY AdirondackTwo-year college433
- Glens Falls City School DistrictSchool district423FTE
- Medline IndustriesManufacturer of medical devices401
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 73 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 9,964 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
- LightningRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Warren County, 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 Warren County and the Glens Falls, NY metro.
North River home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- North River$363,288
- 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.
Zip codes with a North River address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls North River — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.