Witherbee, New York.
Typical home $114,126 (+17.6% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$407 (+211%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $17,092 +18%
- $97,034$114,126 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $45,637 +67%
- $68,489$114,126 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.
- Witherbee$599
- 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 Witherbee, NY rose 17.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Witherbee, Essex County, New York
Witherbee, in Essex County, had 385 people in the 2020 census. 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 people in Essex County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Witherbee is a very small community in Essex County, in the Adirondack country of northern New York. Homes here are inexpensive, and the typical home value sits well below what many homeowners in other parts of the country would expect. Winters are long and cold, with January the coldest month and freezing days and nights throughout it, while July brings warm summer days.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in restaurants and hotels, in manufacturing, and in professional and business services. Across Essex County, the largest workplaces include the Sylvamo-Ticonderoga Mill, Elizabethtown Community Hospital and Walmart. Unemployment across the county has stayed about where it was a year earlier, and the county has gained a few more jobs than it had the year before.
Things to do. Fort Crown Point, a fort, and Sweet Pond State Park, a protected area, are both a short drive away. For a longer drive, Fort Ticonderoga is one of the region's best known historic forts, and Lake Placid is a reservoir town with a name known well beyond the mountains.
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What people in Essex County 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 29° and lows near 10°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 61°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Vergennes weather station, 16 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; Witherbee 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
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Witherbee’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.
Witherbee home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Witherbee$114,126
- 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 Witherbee address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Witherbee — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.