Russell, New York.
Typical home $137,526 (+9.1% in a year). Ogdensburg-Massena, NY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$407 (+129%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,508 +9%
- $126,018$137,526 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $32,613 +31%
- $104,913$137,526 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.
- Russell$722
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Russell, NY rose 9.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Russell, St. Lawrence County, New York
Russell is a town of 1,872 people in St. Lawrence County. Half its households earn more than $65,189 a year and half less, against $62,850 across St. Lawrence County. 83% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 17% are rented. Unemployment in St. Lawrence County was 5.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Russell is a small rural town in St. Lawrence County where nearly everyone owns the home they live in, a good deal more than is typical across the country. Household incomes run a little above the county's, and the population is somewhat younger than in many rural towns. Winters are long and cold, with January the coldest month and a great deal of snow, while summers are pleasantly warm and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades, in shops, and in farming, forestry and mining. Across St. Lawrence County, the largest workplaces include Canton-potsdam Hospital, Clarkson University and St Lawrence University. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many places, commutes tend to be long, and a modest number of people work from home.
Things to do. The North Branch Grass River and Plumb Brook run in or beside town, and the Middle Branch Grass River is a short drive away, so water is never far off. A longer drive leads to Higley Flow State Park, a protected area, and to High Falls, a waterfall. With so much snow in winter, the outdoors here changes a good deal from one season to the next.
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- 760households
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 34 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. St. Lawrence County had 34,712 jobs in 2025, 0.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 27° and lows near 7°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 59°. About 77 inches of snow and 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Canton Southeast weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in St. Lawrence County
- Canton-potsdam HospitalGeneral hospital1,143FTE
- Clarkson UniversityUniversity or college765
- St Lawrence UniversityUniversity or college756
- SUNY College at PotsdamUniversity or college673
- Claxton Hepburn Medical CenterGeneral hospital535FTE
- SUNY College of Technology at CantonUniversity or college507
- Alcoa USAPrimary aluminum production and manufacturing aluminum shapes483
- Massena Central School DistrictSchool district475FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 74 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 8,291 people in all across the county; Russell has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and school districts from the Common Core of Data (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
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across St. Lawrence 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 St. Lawrence County and the Ogdensburg-Massena, NY metro.
Russell home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Russell$137,526
- 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 Russell address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Russell — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.