Silver Bay, New York.
Typical home $1,217,267 (+10.3% in a year). Glens Falls, NY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$4,385 (+219%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $113,311 +10%
- $1,103,956$1,217,267 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $467,566 +62%
- $749,701$1,217,267 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.
- Silver Bay$6,389
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 7 years.
Typical home values in Silver Bay, NY rose 10.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Silver Bay, Warren County, New York
The Census does not count Silver Bay 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Silver Bay sits in Warren County in northeastern New York State. Most of the homes here are lived in by their owners rather than rented, and the county's residents are, on average, in the middle years of adult life. Winters are cold, summers are warm, and rain and melted snow add up to a good deal of water over the year.
Work. Unemployment across the county is low, and the number of jobs has held roughly steady from one year to the next. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in professional and business services, or in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Many adults hold a four-year degree, and only a small share of workers do their jobs from home.
Things to do. Jabe Pond is a lake in or beside town, so it is the easiest outing to reach. Lake George, a lake a short drive away, is a good choice for a day by the water. Fort Ticonderoga, a fort a longer drive away, is worth the trip for anyone interested in the region's history.
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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 30° and lows near 12°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 61°. About 43 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Whitehall weather station, 12 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.
Silver Bay home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Silver Bay$1,217,267
- 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.
- Silver Bay5
Zip codes with a Silver Bay address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Silver Bay — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.