Salisbury Center, New York.
Typical home $182,432 (+9.1% in a year). Utica-Rome, NY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$193 (+25%) since Jan 2024.
- 1 year
- Up $15,248 +9%
- $167,184$182,432 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.
- Salisbury Center$958
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Salisbury Center, NY rose 9.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Salisbury Center, Herkimer County, New York
Salisbury Center, in Herkimer County, had 323 people in the 2020 census. 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Salisbury Center is a very small community in Herkimer County, with few residents and a quiet, rural feel. Homes here are priced well below what many buyers expect elsewhere in the state, and household incomes in the county run somewhat below the national picture. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and temperatures that stay close to freezing even in the daytime, while July brings pleasantly warm days.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, manufacturing and the building trades. Across Herkimer County, the largest workplaces include the Tractor Supply Company Distribution Center, Walmart and Herkimer County Community College. Unemployment in the county is a little higher than a year earlier, though the county has gained jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Sprite Creek and East Canada Creek both run in or beside town, so water is close at hand. A short drive away are Pleasant Lake, a lake, and Beaversprite, a protected area. For a longer outing, Johnson Hall State Historic Site is a protected historic place within a longer drive.
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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, 7 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; Salisbury Center 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
- Ice stormsRelatively 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 in Salisbury Center’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.
Salisbury Center home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Salisbury Center$182,432
- 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 Salisbury Center address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Salisbury Center — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.