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SheetNY-SHERBURNE-NY · Sherburne, NY 1,294 pop · income 15th 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 Sherburne
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Sherburne on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Taos Pueblo · lowest
36,979
Taos Pueblo · lowest
36,979 median HH income
17.5% of the leader · rank #1
Sherburne · this city
46,667
Sherburne · this city
46,667 median HH income
22.0% of the leader · rank #2
Pickensville · near
46,667
Pickensville · near
46,667 median HH income
22.0% of the leader · rank #3
Newport · near
46,667
Newport · near
46,667 median HH income
22.0% of the leader · rank #4
Lincoln Center · near
46,667
Lincoln Center · near
46,667 median HH income
22.0% of the leader · rank #5
Mars Hill · near
46,667
Mars Hill · near
46,667 median HH income
22.0% of the leader · rank #6
Lakes East · highest
211,728
Lakes East · highest
211,728 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 Sherburne 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: 1,294.
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Sherburne lands in the 15th percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.
15th
percentile, household income
18th
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: Sherburne, NY
New York's Sherburne is a small town, with 1,294 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Sherburne households earn a median of $46,667 annually, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 15.9%. Typical homes in Sherburne are valued around $120,500, and the median resident age is 38.5 years. Educational attainment runs 17.5% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 51.2% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
NOAA climate normals record an annual average temperature of 45.8°F with 42.1 inches of precipitation per year and 77.1 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). Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $1,579 monthly. Monthly utility costs average around $285 across New York, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. 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 Sherburne'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 climate and hazard context to housing and income to work and mobility to schools and households to population change; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Sherburne, city-specific coverage includes matched public-school count, commute-mode shares, annual population history.
No matched row is reported here for FBI reported-crime rates, local building permits, within-city Census tract profiles; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
Which cities make useful reference points for Sherburne?
Within New York, the closest population matches are Alexandria Bay (1,296 residents, $50,603 income); Nunda (1,291 residents, $53,636 income); St. John Fisher College (1,301 residents). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are South Woodstock, CT (1,294 residents); Taos Pueblo, NM (1,294 residents); Mooreland, OK (1,294 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.
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 45.8°F, with 42.1 inches of precipitation and 77.1 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.
How far does income reach against housing in Sherburne?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 2.6 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 15.9%, 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 Sherburne?
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 67.2%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
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.
Schools and households
What does the education layer cover for Sherburne?
The NCES join finds 3 public schools within the city match. 17.5% 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+
17.5%
Poverty estimate
15.9%
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
Is Sherburne 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 -31 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -2.2% change. No comparable local building-permit series is available here, so population change should not be read as a housing-supply measure. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Period change
-2.2%
2025 estimate
1,359
2020 estimate
1,390
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
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
17.5%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate F
15.9%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Household income F
$46,667
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.
Violent crime N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
Sherburne profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 27/100 (F) · 17.5%
Poverty rate: 21/100 (F) · 15.9%
Household income: 16/100 (F) · $46,667
Cost of living: 12/100 (F) · 107.9 index
How does Sherburne compare to other US cities?
Here's how Sherburne stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income15% higher than other cities
Home value18% 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 Sherburne 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 Sherburne near the bottom of New York's cities
Among the 1,256 New York cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Sherburne ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Sherburne only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#1,132 of 1,205
6th percentile in New York
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,256
0th percentile in New York
Median Home Value
#1,007 of 1,202
16th percentile in New York
Poverty Rate
#161 of 1,246
87th percentile in New York
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#1,073 of 1,254
14th 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
15th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Sherburne's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$120,500Among the most affordablemore affordable than 82% 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
Sherburne's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.6×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#4,418 of 15,516
More affordable than 72% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#3,944 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 2.6×, Sherburne sits in the affordable band:
national rank #4,418 of 15,516 and #3,944 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
$46,667Sherburne, NY median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Sherburne, 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 Sherburne, NY.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)17.5%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)15.9%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)51.2%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
1,294
Median Income
$46,667
Median Home Value
$120,500
Median Age
38.5
Poverty Rate
15.9%
Labor force participation
51.2%
Bachelor's Degree+
17.5%
Climate
Avg Temperature
45.8°F
Annual Precipitation
42.1"
Annual Snowfall
77.1"
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
Sherburne's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
1,390 residents
2021
1,379 residents
2022
1,376 residents
2023
1,364 residents
2024
1,361 residents
2025
1,359 residents
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
67.2%
Carpool
16.4%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
11.4%
Work from Home
5.0%
Based on 542 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 Sherburne. 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 Sherburne 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 Sherburne sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Sherburne 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 ACS B08301/B08136, U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023, BEA Regional Price Parities 2024, HUD Fair Market Rents 2026, FEMA National Risk Index.