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SheetNY-CROTON-ON-HUDSON-NY · Croton-on-Hudson, NY 8,205 pop · income 97th 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 Croton-on-Hudson
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Croton-on-Hudson on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Sans Souci · lowest
46,276
Sans Souci · lowest
46,276 median HH income
24.9% of the leader · rank #1
Upper Bear Cr… · near
185,574
Upper Bear Cr… · near
185,574 median HH income
99.8% of the leader · rank #2
Croton-on-Hud… · this city
185,718
Croton-on-Hud… · this city
185,718 median HH income
99.9% of the leader · rank #3
Dutch Island · near
185,750
Dutch Island · near
185,750 median HH income
99.9% of the leader · rank #4
Lakewood · near
185,774
Lakewood · near
185,774 median HH income
99.9% of the leader · rank #5
Stone · near
185,809
Stone · near
185,809 median HH income
99.9% of the leader · rank #6
Swall Meadows · highest
185,913
Swall Meadows · highest
185,913 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 Croton-on-Hudson 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: 8,205.
Croton-on-Hudson ranks in the 97th percentile for household income nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS.
97th
percentile, household income
93rd
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: Croton-on-Hudson, NY
8,205 people live in Croton-on-Hudson, New York - a small town by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Croton-on-Hudson households earn a median of $185,718 annually, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 2.4%. Home values in Croton-on-Hudson run a median of $702,600, and the median resident age is 46.0 years. 72.2% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 63.0% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 4 residential building permits were authorized in Croton-on-Hudson (Slowing), down 20% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data.
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. 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 Croton-on-Hudson report an average commute of 33.7 minutes, with 43.8% driving alone and 28.1% working from home. Natural-hazard exposure scores 69.4 out of 100 on FEMA's National Risk Index (Moderate).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Croton-on-Hudson'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 population change 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 Croton-on-Hudson, city-specific coverage includes annual population history, local building permits, commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for within-city Census tract profiles, matched public-school count, FBI reported-crime rates; 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 Croton-on-Hudson?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 43.8%. The reported mean trip to work is 33.7 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. Remote work has a visible role in the local pattern. That can reduce commute exposure for some workers, but it says nothing about job availability or broadband quality; read it alongside income and housing rather than as a stand-alone lifestyle score.
Is Croton-on-Hudson growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +32 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +0.4% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 4 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
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.
How far does income reach against housing in Croton-on-Hudson?
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.
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.8 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 2.4%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Which cities make useful reference points for Croton-on-Hudson?
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 Garden City Park (8,176 residents, $135,208 income); Hornell (8,173 residents, $46,321 income); Center Moriches (8,155 residents, $152,500 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Orono, MN (8,205 residents); Bellevue, OH (8,201 residents); Sans Souci, SC (8,199 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.
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 A+
$185,718
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share A+
72.2%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate A-
2.4%
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.
Violent crime N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
Croton-on-Hudson profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 100/100 (A+) · $185,718
Bachelor's+ share: 99/100 (A+) · 72.2%
Poverty rate: 83/100 (A-) · 2.4%
Cost of living: 12/100 (F) · 107.9 index
How does Croton-on-Hudson compare to other US cities?
Here's how Croton-on-Hudson stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income97% higher than other cities
Home value93% 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 Croton-on-Hudson 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 Croton-on-Hudson near the bottom of New York's cities
Among the 1,256 New York cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Croton-on-Hudson ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Croton-on-Hudson only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#72 of 1,205
94th percentile in New York
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,256
0th percentile in New York
Median Home Value
#169 of 1,202
86th percentile in New York
Poverty Rate
#838 of 1,246
32nd percentile in New York
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#80 of 1,254
94th 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
97th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Croton-on-Hudson's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$702,6007th percentilemore affordable than 7% 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
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#10,000 of 15,516
More affordable than 36% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#7,912 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 3.8×, Croton-on-Hudson sits in the moderate band:
national rank #10,000 of 15,516 and #7,912 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
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
$185,718Croton-on-Hudson, NY median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Croton-on-Hudson, 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 Croton-on-Hudson, NY.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)72.2%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)2.4%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)63.0%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
8,205
Median Income
$185,718
Median Home Value
$702,600
Median Age
46.0
Poverty Rate
2.4%
Labor force participation
63.0%
Bachelor's Degree+
72.2%
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Croton-on-Hudson's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
8,250 residents
2021
8,227 residents
2022
8,130 residents
2023
8,196 residents
2024
8,252 residents
2025
8,282 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
🏗️ Slowing
Total Permits (2024)
4
housing units authorized
Single-Family
4
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
0.5
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
5
5
0
$1.9M
2020
3
3
0
$1.0M
2021
4
4
0
$1.4M
2022
36
3
33
$9.3M
2023
5
5
0
$2.0M
2024
4
4
0
$1.4M
Permit volume decreased 20% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
33.7 minutes
Drive Alone
43.8%
Carpool
4.1%
Public Transit
20.6%
Walk
3.3%
Work from Home
28.1%
Based on 4,020 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 Croton-on-Hudson. 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 Croton-on-Hudson 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 Croton-on-Hudson sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Croton-on-Hudson 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 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.