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SheetNY-ORANGE-LAKE-NY · Orange Lake, NY 9,588 pop · income 74th 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 Orange Lake
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Orange Lake on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Silver City · lowest
39,025
Silver City · lowest
39,025 median HH income
24.8% of the leader · rank #1
Sutter · near
94,375
Sutter · near
94,375 median HH income
60.1% of the leader · rank #2
Southern Gate… · near
94,383
Southern Gate… · near
94,383 median HH income
60.1% of the leader · rank #3
Cramerton · near
94,390
Cramerton · near
94,390 median HH income
60.1% of the leader · rank #4
Orange Lake · this city
94,394
Orange Lake · this city
94,394 median HH income
60.1% of the leader · rank #5
Phoenixville · near
94,411
Phoenixville · near
94,411 median HH income
60.1% of the leader · rank #6
Greenville CD… · highest
157,159
Greenville CD… · highest
157,159 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 Orange Lake 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: 9,588.
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Orange Lake lands in the 74th percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.
74th
percentile, household income
69th
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: Orange Lake, NY
9,588 people live in Orange Lake, New York - a small town by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. The typical household in Orange Lake brings in $94,394 a year, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 6.6%. Typical homes in Orange Lake are valued around $330,600, and the median resident age is 46.3 years. 34.7% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 51.4% 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. Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $1,579 monthly. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in New York run around $285, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. The average commute for Orange Lake workers runs 28.9 minutes, with 69.7% driving alone and 13.9% working from home. 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 Orange Lake'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 comparison shortlist to housing and income; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Orange Lake, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for annual population history, within-city Census tract profiles, FBI reported-crime rates, local building permits, matched public-school count; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in Orange Lake?
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 69.7%. The reported mean trip to work is 28.9 minutes.
Which cities make useful reference points for Orange Lake?
Within New York, the closest population matches are Greenville CDP (Westchester County) (9,586 residents, $157,159 income); Ogdensburg (9,600 residents, $59,306 income); Fredonia (9,601 residents, $47,694 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Lititz, PA (9,599 residents); Winchester, TN (9,600 residents); Country Club Estates, GA (9,575 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 Orange Lake?
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 6.6%, 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.
Above median income · poverty 6.6% (Below-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
107.9 (US=100)
High cost · BEA RPP 2024, New York average
C-
City profile score · Orange Lake, NY
52/100
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 B
$94,394
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share B-
34.7%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate C
6.6%
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).
Orange Lake profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 74/100 (B) · $94,394
Bachelor's+ share: 66/100 (B-) · 34.7%
Poverty rate: 55/100 (C) · 6.6%
Cost of living: 12/100 (F) · 107.9 index
How does Orange Lake compare to other US cities?
Orange Lake measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income74% higher than other cities
Home value69% 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 Orange Lake 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 Orange Lake near the bottom of New York's cities
Among the 1,256 New York cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Orange Lake ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Orange Lake only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#485 of 1,205
60th percentile in New York
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,256
0th percentile in New York
Median Home Value
#457 of 1,202
62nd percentile in New York
Poverty Rate
#476 of 1,246
61st percentile in New York
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#591 of 1,254
53rd 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
74th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Orange Lake's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$330,60031st percentilemore affordable than 31% 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
Orange Lake'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
#8,969 of 15,516
More affordable than 42% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#7,240 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 3.5×, Orange Lake sits in the moderate band:
national rank #8,969 of 15,516 and #7,240 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
$94,394Orange Lake, NY median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Orange Lake, 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 Orange Lake, NY.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)34.7%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)6.6%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)51.4%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
9,588
Median Income
$94,394
Median Home Value
$330,600
Median Age
46.3
Poverty Rate
6.6%
Labor force participation
51.4%
Bachelor's Degree+
34.7%
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
28.9 minutes
Drive Alone
69.7%
Carpool
8.2%
Public Transit
5.1%
Walk
0.9%
Work from Home
13.9%
Other
2.2%
Based on 4,119 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 Orange Lake. 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 Orange Lake 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 Orange Lake sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Orange Lake 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.