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SheetNY-CANANDAIGUA-NY · Canandaigua, NY 10,542 pop · income 40th pct · 40 tracts
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 Canandaigua
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Canandaigua on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Bogalusa · lowest
37,846
Bogalusa · lowest
37,846 median HH income
25.3% of the leader · rank #1
Camp Nelson · near
63,259
Camp Nelson · near
63,259 median HH income
42.2% of the leader · rank #2
Roby · near
63,259
Roby · near
63,259 median HH income
42.2% of the leader · rank #3
Laredo · near
63,264
Laredo · near
63,264 median HH income
42.2% of the leader · rank #4
Boardman · near
63,266
Boardman · near
63,266 median HH income
42.2% of the leader · rank #5
Canandaigua · this city
63,268
Canandaigua · this city
63,268 median HH income
42.2% of the leader · rank #6
East Setauket · highest
149,820
East Setauket · highest
149,820 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, and FBI crime rate
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Canandaigua on ACS population and median household income
, plus FBI UCR reporting rate when the extract covers this place. 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: 10,542.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Canandaigua - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Canandaigua places in the 40th percentile for household income and the 39th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
40th
percentile, household income
48th
percentile, home value
78th
percentile, median rent
39th
percentile, safety
📝 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: Canandaigua, NY
Canandaigua is a small town in New York, home to 10,542 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Median household income here is $63,268 per year, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 5.3%. Home values in Canandaigua run a median of $218,300, and the median resident age is 41.4 years. 39.1% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 59.7% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 7 residential building permits were authorized in Canandaigua (Slowing), down 12% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Canandaigua reports a comparatively low crime rate: the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program logs 1739.8 total incidents per 100,000 residents here, below the national average (agency reporting is voluntary, so this measures reporting activity, not a definitive danger score). The annual average temperature per NOAA climate normals runs 48.8°F with 35.2 inches of precipitation per year.
New York carries a cost-of-living premium: the state registers 107.9 on a 100-equals-national-average index (Above Average) per BEA Regional Price Parities 2024. Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $1,579 monthly. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts New York's average monthly utility costs around $285 (state average). 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 Canandaigua'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 housing and income to work and mobility to within-city variation to reported crime to schools and households to population change to comparison shortlist to climate and hazard context; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Canandaigua, city-specific coverage includes local building permits, within-city Census tract profiles, commute-mode shares, annual population history, matched public-school count, FBI reported-crime rates.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
Question 1
How far does income reach against housing in Canandaigua?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.5 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 5.3%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
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. Income and home value move within the same broad scale here. The useful next check is not a generic affordability label, but whether similar-size cities offer a materially different income, housing, or commute trade-off.
What does the journey to work look like in Canandaigua?
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. No single mode completely explains the work trip here. The mix is more useful than a one-number commute grade, especially when comparing places where transit, walking, and remote work divide the non-driving share differently.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 79.1%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
What can 40 Census tracts reveal inside Canandaigua?
That layer breaks the citywide income, rent, and home-value medians into smaller Census geographies, which can reveal differences that one municipal median necessarily hides. A tract is a statistical area, not a locally defined neighborhood or a promise about conditions on a particular block. Start with the city profile for the broad comparison, then use the tract layer to test whether the same housing and income pattern is consistent across the city. Large within-city spreads are a reason to avoid treating any citywide median as a universal resident experience.
PlainCities matches 40 Census tracts to this city.
Which cities make useful reference points for Canandaigua?
Within New York, the closest population matches are Scotchtown (10,544 residents, $92,889 income); Sleepy Hollow (10,592 residents, $101,652 income); Chestnut Ridge (10,464 residents, $113,750 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Bluffton, IN (10,539 residents); Bogalusa, LA (10,539 residents); Linthicum, MD (10,545 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.
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. The nationwide peer panel below adds a fourth FBI UCR reporting-rate lens, not personal risk.
These joined records add useful context, but they do not need another full-size panel. Each remains a separate measure with its own geography and source boundary.
Reported crime
What can the FBI record say about safety in Canandaigua?
Treat this as a reporting-rate comparison, not a prediction of personal risk or a neighborhood-level safety grade. Tourism, daytime population, reporting practices, and variation inside the city are not adjusted away. The state rank and same-state peer table are the narrower comparisons available on this page.
The joined FBI UCR record reports 1739.8 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 24% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Property rate
1491.3
Violent rate
248.5
Total reported rate
1739.8
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
What does the education layer cover for Canandaigua?
The NCES join finds 3 public schools within the city match. 39.1% of adults age 25+ hold a bachelor's degree or higher in the ACS estimate. These measures answer different questions: the school count describes local institutions, while adult attainment describes residents and cannot be used as a school-quality rating.
The city has a broader matched school footprint, but count alone does not describe performance, capacity, program availability, or attendance boundaries. This profile deliberately avoids converting it into an unsupported family-friendliness score.
Matched public schools
3
Bachelor's degree+
39.1%
Poverty estimate
5.3%
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
Is Canandaigua growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
The recent population line is broadly flat. That makes the composition of change more important than the headline count: housing turnover, household size, and age structure can shift even when the total barely moves.
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -53 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -0.5% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 7 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Period change
-0.5%
2025 estimate
10,347
2020 estimate
10,400
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
What physical conditions frame life in Canandaigua?
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 48.8°F, with 35.2 inches of precipitation. FEMA's state-averaged National Risk Index score for New York is 69.4 out of 100. Climate normals describe long-run weather; the FEMA score on PlainCities is a state average of county NRI inputs and combines hazards, exposure, vulnerability, and resilience.
The two sources should not be blended into one comfort or safety score. Use the climate values for baseline conditions and the risk index as a prompt to inspect specific hazards, insurance, and local emergency guidance for a particular address.
Mean temperature
48.8°F
Annual precipitation
35.2 in
FEMA risk index (state avg)
69.4
NOAA Climate Normals and FEMA National Risk Index (state-averaged on PlainCities). Hazard context is not address-level.
Below median income · poverty 5.3% (Below-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
107.9 (US=100)
High cost · BEA RPP 2024, New York average
D
City profile score · Canandaigua, NY
44/100
5 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.
Bachelor's+ share B
39.1%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate C+
5.3%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime D
249 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Household income F
$63,268
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
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.
Canandaigua profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 74/100 (B) · 39.1%
Poverty rate: 63/100 (C+) · 5.3%
Violent crime: 41/100 (D) · 249 /100k
Household income: 39/100 (F) · $63,268
Cost of living: 12/100 (F) · 107.9 index
Where Canandaigua sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Canandaigua's median home value and FBI crime rate plotted with similar-size and
same-state peers (padded with large cities when the peer set is thin). The second
read: pricey does not always mean safer, check which quadrant this city lands in.
Census ACS median home value vs FBI UCR crime rate - Canandaigua highlighted among 26 peers.Read the chart values
Canandaigua, NY (this city): home $218,300, crime 1,740/100k
Bluffton, IN : home $136,800, crime 913/100k
Bogalusa, LA : home $107,000, crime 5,345/100k
Heath, OH : home $215,000, crime 4,536/100k
Bellmead, TX : home $117,600, crime 3,641/100k
Corning, NY : home $148,300, crime 2,542/100k
New York, NY : home $751,700, crime 3,039/100k
Los Angeles, CA : home $879,500, crime 2,212/100k
Chicago, IL : home $315,200, crime 4,012/100k
Houston, TX : home $253,400, crime 5,442/100k
Phoenix, AZ : home $381,900, crime 3,125/100k
Philadelphia, PA : home $232,400, crime 5,457/100k
San Antonio, TX : home $219,700, crime 5,218/100k
San Diego, CA : home $848,500, crime 2,082/100k
Dallas, TX : home $295,300, crime 4,010/100k
San Jose, CA : home $1,187,800, crime 3,195/100k
Austin, TX : home $512,700, crime 3,709/100k
Fort Worth, TX : home $277,300, crime 3,158/100k
Columbus, OH : home $234,500, crime 3,088/100k
Indianapolis, IN : home $207,000, crime 4,214/100k
San Francisco, CA : home $1,380,500, crime 4,526/100k
Seattle, WA : home $912,100, crime 5,783/100k
Denver, CO : home $586,700, crime 5,755/100k
Oklahoma City, OK : home $215,100, crime 3,570/100k
El Paso, TX : home $171,700, crime 1,772/100k
Washington, DC : home $724,600, crime 4,514/100k
How does Canandaigua compare to other US cities?
Canandaigua measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income40% higher than other cities
Home value48% pricier than other cities
Median rent78% pricier than other cities
Safety39% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
Zoom in to just New York and the picture shifts: Canandaigua ranks #21 of 55 New York cities by lowest crime rate, a different read than the national percentile above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Canandaigua 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 Canandaigua near the bottom of New York's cities
Among the 1,256 New York cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Canandaigua ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Canandaigua only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#867 of 1,205
28th percentile in New York
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,256
0th percentile in New York
Median Home Value
#632 of 1,202
47th percentile in New York
Poverty Rate
#566 of 1,246
54th percentile in New York
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#504 of 1,254
60th 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
40th percentile nationally for median household income · 39th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Canandaigua's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Canandaigua's percentile rank on 3 favorable-direction measures (income, affordability, safety) vs. every tracked US city -- higher on every axis is more favorable. Not a composite quality score, just the arithmetic mean of the axes shown.
How Canandaigua's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$218,300Among the most affordablemore affordable than 52% 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
Canandaigua's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.5×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#8,782 of 15,516
More affordable than 43% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#1,444 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 3.5×, Canandaigua sits in the moderate band:
national rank #8,782 of 15,516 and #1,444 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
Income and home value move in the same broad scale; check same-state peers before treating the multiple as an advantage or a warning.
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
$63,268Canandaigua, NY median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Canandaigua, 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 Canandaigua, NY.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)39.1%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)5.3%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)59.7%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
10,542
Median Income
$63,268
Median Home Value
$218,300
Median Age
41.4
Poverty Rate
5.3%
Labor force participation
59.7%
Bachelor's Degree+
39.1%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1739.8
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
248.5
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1491.3
per 100,000 residents
Crime reporting caveat
Reflects incidents reported to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program — agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies by jurisdiction and year, so this reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score. Not adjusted for tourism, commuter, or daytime population.
Climate
Avg Temperature
48.8°F
Annual Precipitation
35.2"
Annual Snowfall
N/A
Schools
Total Schools
3
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Canandaigua's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
10,400 residents
2021
10,431 residents
2022
10,423 residents
2023
10,408 residents
2024
10,405 residents
2025
10,347 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
🏗️ Slowing
Total Permits (2024)
7
housing units authorized
Single-Family
7
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
0.7
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
8
8
0
$2.2M
2020
9
9
0
$2.6M
2021
38
38
0
$11.8M
2022
34
34
0
$11.1M
2023
1
1
0
$0.4M
2024
7
7
0
$1.9M
Permit volume decreased 12% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
79.1%
Carpool
5.1%
Public Transit
0.9%
Walk
5.5%
Work from Home
8.4%
Other
1.0%
Based on 5,227 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 Canandaigua. 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 Canandaigua 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 Canandaigua sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Canandaigua 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, FBI UCR, NOAA Climate Normals, NCES CCD, Census BPS 2024, 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.