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SheetNY-GOUVERNEUR-NY · Gouverneur, NY 3,623 pop · income 5th 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 Gouverneur
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Gouverneur on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Escatawpa · lowest
35,313
Escatawpa · lowest
35,313 median HH income
19.3% of the leader · rank #1
Tchula · near
35,441
Tchula · near
35,441 median HH income
19.4% of the leader · rank #2
Newell · near
35,446
Newell · near
35,446 median HH income
19.4% of the leader · rank #3
Uniontown · near
35,451
Uniontown · near
35,451 median HH income
19.4% of the leader · rank #4
Gouverneur · this city
35,464
Gouverneur · this city
35,464 median HH income
19.4% of the leader · rank #5
North Edwards · near
35,469
North Edwards · near
35,469 median HH income
19.4% of the leader · rank #6
Clifton Knoll… · highest
182,976
Clifton Knoll… · highest
182,976 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 Gouverneur 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: 3,623.
Nationally, Gouverneur sits in the 5th percentile for household income among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS.
5th
percentile, household income
12th
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: Gouverneur, NY
Gouverneur is a small town in New York, home to 3,623 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Median household income here is $35,464 per year, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 22.7%. Home values in Gouverneur run a median of $107,500, and the median resident age is 38.9 years. Educational attainment runs 18.3% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 41.8% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 5 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Low Activity). The annual average temperature per NOAA climate normals runs 43.5°F with 39.6 inches of precipitation per year and 92.4 inches of snowfall.
New York carries a cost-of-living premium: BEA Regional Price Parities 2024 puts New York at 107.9 on a 100-equals-national-average scale (Above Average). A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $1,579 per month statewide. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts New York's average monthly utility costs around $285 (state average). FEMA's National Risk Index rates natural-hazard exposure at 69.4 out of 100 (Moderate).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Gouverneur'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 comparison shortlist to housing and income to schools and households to climate and hazard context to work and mobility to population change; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Gouverneur, city-specific coverage includes annual population history, matched public-school count, local building permits, commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for within-city Census tract profiles, FBI reported-crime rates; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
Which cities make useful reference points for Gouverneur?
Within New York, the closest population matches are North Great River (3,638 residents, $146,250 income); Whitesboro (3,643 residents, $47,201 income); Clifton Knolls-Mill Creek (3,601 residents, $182,976 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Rollingwood, CA (3,623 residents); Linwood, PA (3,623 residents); Upper Greenwood Lake, NJ (3,621 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.
How far does income reach against housing in Gouverneur?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.0 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 22.7%, 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 education layer cover for Gouverneur?
The NCES join finds 3 public schools within the city match. 18.3% 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.
What physical conditions frame life in Gouverneur?
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 43.5°F, with 39.6 inches of precipitation and 92.4 inches of annual snowfall. 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.
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.
Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in Gouverneur?
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.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 85.9%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Public transit
0.0%
Work from home
2.0%
Drive alone
85.9%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 1,139 workers age 16+.
Is Gouverneur growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Recent estimates point downward. A falling count can reflect migration, household size, annexation boundaries, or estimation noise, so it is a prompt to inspect the full series rather than a claim about local economic health.
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -65 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -1.8% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 5 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
-1.8%
2025 estimate
3,560
2020 estimate
3,625
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
Lowest-decile income · poverty 22.7% (Highest-decile poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
107.9 (US=100)
High cost · BEA RPP 2024, New York average
F
City profile score · Gouverneur, NY
11/100
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.
Bachelor's+ share F
18.3%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; 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.
Poverty rate F
22.7%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Household income F
$35,464
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Violent crime N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
Gouverneur profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 29/100 (F) · 18.3%
Cost of living: 12/100 (F) · 107.9 index
Poverty rate: 9/100 (F) · 22.7%
Household income: 1/100 (F) · $35,464
How does Gouverneur compare to other US cities?
Where Gouverneur sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income5% higher than other cities
Home value12% 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 Gouverneur 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 Gouverneur near the bottom of New York's cities
Among the 1,256 New York cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Gouverneur ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Gouverneur only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#1,191 of 1,205
1st percentile in New York
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,256
0th percentile in New York
Median Home Value
#1,075 of 1,202
11th percentile in New York
Poverty Rate
#57 of 1,246
95th percentile in New York
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#1,054 of 1,254
16th 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
5th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Gouverneur's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$107,500Among the most affordablemore affordable than 88% 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
Gouverneur's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.0×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#6,869 of 15,516
More affordable than 56% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#5,782 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 3.0×, Gouverneur sits in the moderate band:
national rank #6,869 of 15,516 and #5,782 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
$35,464Gouverneur, NY median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Gouverneur, 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 Gouverneur, NY.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)18.3%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)22.7%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)41.8%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
3,623
Median Income
$35,464
Median Home Value
$107,500
Median Age
38.9
Poverty Rate
22.7%
Labor force participation
41.8%
Bachelor's Degree+
18.3%
Climate
Avg Temperature
43.5°F
Annual Precipitation
39.6"
Annual Snowfall
92.4"
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
Gouverneur's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
3,625 residents
2021
3,613 residents
2022
3,633 residents
2023
3,609 residents
2024
3,580 residents
2025
3,560 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
🏗️ Low Activity
Total Permits (2024)
5
housing units authorized
Single-Family
5
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
1.4
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
0
0
0
-
2020
0
0
0
-
2021
31
31
0
$8.0M
2022
1
1
0
$0.1M
2023
0
0
0
-
2024
5
5
0
$1.7M
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
85.9%
Carpool
7.0%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
1.0%
Work from Home
2.0%
Other
4.1%
Based on 1,139 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 Gouverneur. 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 Gouverneur 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 Gouverneur sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Gouverneur 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, 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.