Tribes Hill, New York.
Typical home $190,884 (+4.3% in a year). Amsterdam, NY metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$571 (+132%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,812 +4%
- $183,072$190,884 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $44,018 +30%
- $146,865$190,884 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.
- Tribes Hill$1,002
- 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 Tribes Hill, NY rose 4.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Tribes Hill, Montgomery County, New York
Tribes Hill, in Montgomery County, had 937 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $86,615 a year and half less, against $64,943 across Montgomery County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. 93% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 7% are rented. Unemployment in Montgomery County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 2.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Montgomery 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Tribes Hill is a small community where nearly everyone owns the home they live in, far more than is usual across the country. Incomes run well above the county's, and fewer people live below the poverty line than you might expect for the area. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and plenty of snow, while July brings pleasantly warm days.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, manufacturing and the building trades close behind. Across Montgomery County, some of the largest workplaces are Target, St. Mary's Healthcare and the Amsterdam City School District. A typical commute is a short one, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. For history, Johnson Hall State Historic Site, a protected area, and the Caughnawaga Indian Village Site, an archaeological site, are each a short drive away. Auries Creek and Danascara Creek run in or beside town, and a longer drive brings you to Great Sacandaga Lake, a large reservoir.
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- 19%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What people in Montgomery County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Montgomery County had 19,548 jobs in 2025, 2.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 24° and lows near 7°; warmest in July, with highs near 77° and lows near 56°. About 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Gloversville 7NW (peck Lake) weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Montgomery County
- TargetDiscount department stores1,563
- St. Marys HealthcareGeneral hospital933FTE
- Amsterdam City School DistrictSchool district541FTE
- AmsterdamGeneral warehousing and storage487
- KeymarkAluminum extruded product445
- St. Mary's HealthcareNursing homes375
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters325
- Sticker Mule, LLC - Elk StreetLabels, commercial printing, on a job-order basis270
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 62 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 8,753 people in all across the county; Tribes Hill has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) 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
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Tribes Hill’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 Montgomery County and the Amsterdam, NY metro.
Tribes Hill home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Tribes Hill$190,884
- 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 Tribes Hill address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Tribes Hill — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.