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SheetNY-BLODGETT-MILLS-NY · Blodgett Mills, NY 193 pop · income 37th pct
Instrument codes from this place’s ACS population and household income, BEA state COL, FBI safety, national income percentile, photo-finish peer city, home-value band, and matched Census-tract book - not a moving recommendation.
Income neighbourhood around Blodgett Mills
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Blodgett Mills on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Prestonville · lowest
17,315
Prestonville · lowest
17,315 median HH income
11.1% of the leader · rank #1
Stratford · near
61,090
Stratford · near
61,090 median HH income
39.1% of the leader · rank #2
Tuba · near
61,092
Tuba · near
61,092 median HH income
39.1% of the leader · rank #3
Blodgett Mills · this city
61,094
Blodgett Mills · this city
61,094 median HH income
39.1% of the leader · rank #4
Lynchburg · near
61,094
Lynchburg · near
61,094 median HH income
39.1% of the leader · rank #5
Odem · near
61,094
Odem · near
61,094 median HH income
39.1% of the leader · rank #6
Martell · highest
156,094
Martell · highest
156,094 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #7
What this shows Neighbourhood peers only - not a full nationwide city board. Open a near peer when the gap is small; open the poles when the spread is wide.
Compare beyond this state
Nationwide peers by population, income
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Blodgett Mills on ACS population and median household income
. Link sets are deduped so each column is a distinct comparison path, not a forecast that peers share a labor market or climate.
Similar population
Nearest out-of-state cities by ACS population. This city: 193.
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Blodgett Mills lands in the 37th percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.
37th
percentile, household income
21st
percentile, home value
78th
percentile, median rent
📝 How we sourced this
Population, income, and housing-cost figures come from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates (B-series tables). Crime data uses FBI UCR; climate uses NOAA Climate Normals; school counts come from NCES Common Core of Data; permits use the Census Building Permits Survey (BPS). See our methodology page for the full ETL pipeline and OMB / FIPS join keys.
Data Snapshot: Blodgett Mills, NY
193 people live in Blodgett Mills, New York - a small town by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. The typical household in Blodgett Mills brings in $61,094 a year, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 16.4%. Home values in Blodgett Mills run a median of $129,200, and the median resident age is 39.8 years. About 8.1% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 49.7% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
New York carries a cost-of-living premium: on BEA's 100-equals-national-average cost index, New York scores 107.9 (Above Average), per the 2024 Regional Price Parities release. A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $1,579 per month statewide. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in New York run around $285, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. Workers in Blodgett Mills report an average commute of 15.4 minutes, with 100.0% driving alone and 0.0% working from home. On FEMA's National Risk Index, this area rates 69.4 out of 100 for natural-hazard exposure (Moderate).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Blodgett Mills's data
How this reading path is ordered
This is not a composite city score. It is a city-specific route through the available public records, ordered for this profile so the page starts with questions the joined data can actually answer. The route here runs from work and mobility to housing and income to comparison shortlist; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Blodgett Mills, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for local building permits, FBI reported-crime rates, within-city Census tract profiles, annual population history, matched public-school count; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
What does the journey to work look like in Blodgett Mills?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 100.0%. The reported mean trip to work is 15.4 minutes.
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. The profile is strongly car-oriented, so a relocation comparison should put trip distance, vehicle access, and household fuel costs ahead of a citywide commute average. The same-state peer links offer a more relevant benchmark than a national label.
How far does income reach against housing in Blodgett Mills?
This is a citywide price-to-income reference, not a mortgage-affordability test; it does not include interest rates, taxes, insurance, household size, or an individual buyer's down payment. The ratio makes housing the clearest place to start this profile, but a low multiple can coexist with slow demand, older stock, or household-level hardship. Compare the home-value distribution and same-state peer table before treating it as an advantage.
The home-value-to-income reference is relatively compact: the ACS median home value is 2.1 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 16.4%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Which cities make useful reference points for Blodgett Mills?
Use the in-state set to hold state policy and broad price conditions more nearly constant. Use the nationwide size set to ask whether cities with a similar resident count produce different housing, income, or commute outcomes. The income set is a third lens, deliberately separate from population matching.
Within New York, the closest population matches are Cranberry Lake (193 residents, $81,250 income); Westernville (193 residents); Cold Brook (191 residents, $101,500 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Goodmanville, CA (193 residents); Martell, CA (193 residents); Harrison Lake, IN (193 residents). A third, income-matched reference set of 6 out-of-state cities sits in the income neighbourhood chart near the Place Dossier plate. These are mechanical peer sets, not claims that the places share a labor market, climate, culture, or metro context.
Below median income · poverty 16.4% (High poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
107.9 (US=100)
High cost · BEA RPP 2024, New York average
F
City profile score · Blodgett Mills, NY
19/100
4 published dimensions · ACS/FBI 2023
Comparative score against U.S. cities with population of 1,000 or more on Census ACS medians
(income, poverty, bachelor's share, cost of living) and FBI UCR violent-crime rates when
published. Higher means a stronger standing on those published figures, not a livability
rating, not a recommendation to move, buy, or pick a "best" city. Missing inputs drop out
and redistribute weight.
How it is calculated.
Household income F
$61,094
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate F
16.4%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Cost of living F
107.9 index
BEA state Regional Price Parities index (100 ≈ national average); lower is stronger on this axis. Same value for every city in the state.
Bachelor's+ share F
8.1%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Violent crime N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
Blodgett Mills profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 36/100 (F) · $61,094
Poverty rate: 20/100 (F) · 16.4%
Cost of living: 12/100 (F) · 107.9 index
Bachelor's+ share: 1/100 (F) · 8.1%
How does Blodgett Mills compare to other US cities?
Blodgett Mills measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income37% higher than other cities
Home value21% pricier than other cities
Median rent78% pricier than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Blodgett Mills against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to New York only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
New York-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Blodgett Mills near the bottom of New York's cities
Among the 1,256 New York cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Blodgett Mills ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Blodgett Mills only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#907 of 1,205
25th percentile in New York
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,256
0th percentile in New York
Median Home Value
#961 of 1,202
20th percentile in New York
Poverty Rate
#152 of 1,246
88th percentile in New York
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#1,216 of 1,254
3rd percentile in New York
How in-state ranks are ordered
Ranked by raw value (highest first); a higher rank is not automatically "better" for every measure, see each metric's own context above. This is a comparison within New York only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
37th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Blodgett Mills's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$129,200Among the most affordablemore affordable than 79% of 15,600 US cities
Show national distribution
Each bar is a $25K-wide band; taller bars hold more US cities. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2023
Blodgett Mills's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.1×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#2,061 of 15,516
More affordable than 87% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#1,952 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 2.1×, Blodgett Mills sits in the affordable band:
national rank #2,061 of 15,516 and #1,952 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
The multiple is comparatively compact among tracked cities, but a low ratio can still coexist with slow demand or household-level hardship.
How this ratio is calculated
Ratio = Census ACS 2023 median home value ÷ median household income for cities with both fields and population ≥ 1,000.
Rank 1 = lowest ratio (most compact). Bands match the fleet affordability thresholds used on guides (<3.0 / 3.0–5.0 / >5.0).
This is not a mortgage payment estimate and does not include rates, taxes, insurance, or down payment.
Income distribution context
$61,094Blodgett Mills, NY median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Blodgett Mills, NY median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for Blodgett Mills, NY.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)8.1%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)16.4%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)49.7%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
193
Median Income
$61,094
Median Home Value
$129,200
Median Age
39.8
Poverty Rate
16.4%
Labor force participation
49.7%
Bachelor's Degree+
8.1%
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
15.4 minutes
Drive Alone
100.0%
Carpool
0.0%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.0%
Work from Home
0.0%
Based on 85 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
New York statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $285
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across New York at $285 (electricity about $130 , water and sewer about $65 ).
These are New York statewide averages, not a meter reading for Blodgett Mills. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
New York's BEA cost-of-living index is 107.9 (Above Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Blodgett Mills is $1,579/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to New York statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 69.4 / 100 (Moderate).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a New York statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Blodgett Mills sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Blodgett Mills compares to similar-size New York cities
Same-state peer method
Closest same-state population matches, not geographic neighbors. Population + median household income come from Census Bureau ACS 5-year B01001 and B19013.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year 2023, Census ACS B08301/B08136, U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023, BEA Regional Price Parities 2024, HUD Fair Market Rents 2026, FEMA National Risk Index.