Salem, New York.
Typical home $231,191 (+3.5% in a year). Glens Falls, NY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$98 (+9%) since Jan 2024.
- 1 year
- Up $7,918 +4%
- $223,273$231,191 since Sep 2025
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.
- Salem$1,213
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Salem, NY rose 3.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Salem, Washington County, New York
Salem, in Washington County, had 811 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $82,750 a year and half less, against $73,495 across Washington County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Washington County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Washington County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Salem is a small rural community in Washington County, with a population small enough that neighbors tend to know one another. Household incomes run higher than across the county, and homes here are valued at a level that sits within reach for many buyers. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers are mild and warm in July, and the year brings a good deal of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, retail and professional and business services also well represented. The commute is of a middling length for a rural area. Across Washington County, some of the largest workplaces are the Hudson Falls Central School District, Irving Consumer Products and The Fort Miller Co.
Things to do. Cossayuna Lake is a short drive away and is the closest spot for time on the water. A longer drive brings you to Saratoga National Historical Park, a protected area for walking and learning about local history. The Hyde Collection, a museum, and the Batten Kill, a river, are also a longer drive away.
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- 10%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
What people in Washington County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Washington County had 14,858 jobs in 2025, 0.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 11°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 55°. About 75 inches of snow and 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Sunderland weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Washington County
- Washington CountyLegislative bodies543
- Hudson Falls Central School DistrictSchool district490FTE
- Irving Consumer ProductsPaper towels made in paper mills330
- Granville Central School DistrictSchool district219FTE
- The Fort Miller CoConcrete products, precast, manufacturing209
- Cambridge Central School DistrictSchool district197FTE
- Greenwich Central School DistrictSchool district190FTE
- RozellCrane rental with operator170
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 36 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,360 people in all across the county; Salem has one of its own. School districts come 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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- 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 in Salem’s census tracts, 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 Washington County and the Glens Falls, NY metro.
Salem home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Salem$231,191
- 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.
- Salem16
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Salem address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Salem — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.