Wilmington, New York.
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to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,478 (+116%) since Jan 2020.
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.
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
Living in Wilmington, Essex County, New York
Wilmington, in Essex County, had 843 people in the 2020 census. 79% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 21% are rented. Unemployment in Essex County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 3.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Wilmington is a very small community in Essex County, New York, where nearly everyone owns the home they live in. Few residents live below the poverty line, and the town is known for long, cold, snowy winters, with January the coldest month and plenty of snow through the season. Summers are mild and pleasantly cool, with July the warmest month, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, in the building trades, and in professional and business services. Many people face a fairly long drive to work, and a share of residents work from home. Across Essex County, the largest workplaces include Elizabethtown Community Hospital, the Sylvamo-Ticonderoga Mill and Walmart, and unemployment has stayed close to where it was a year ago.
Things to do. Santa's Workshop, an amusement park, sits in or beside town. A short drive away are Silver Lake and Taylor Pond, along with Land of Makebelieve, another amusement park. Farther afield, a longer drive takes you to Lake Placid's Winter Olympic Museum.
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- 368households
- 29%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 32 mintypical commute
- 16%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Essex County had 15,228 jobs in 2025, 3.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 23° and lows near 6°; warmest in July, with highs near 74° and lows near 54°. About 104 inches of snow and 44 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lake Placid South weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Essex County
- Sylvamo-Ticonderoga MillPaper products made in paper mills635
- Northline UtilitiesTransmission and distribution line construction467
- Elizabethtown Community HospitalCritical access hospital250FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters201
- Old Military Road Operating CompanyNursing homes168
- The CottageHotels, resort, without casinos158
- Lake Placid Central School DistrictSchool district155FTE
- Ticonderoga Central School DistrictSchool district155FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 26 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,676 people in all across the county; Wilmington 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
- LightningRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively 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 Wilmington’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 Essex County.
Wilmington home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Wilmington9
Zip codes with a Wilmington address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Wilmington — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.