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St. John Fisher College, NY

St. John Fisher College's Census ACS profile: residents, income, housing, and the joined public-record layers available for this place.

1,301
Residents
$1,579
Median rent (state)
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Sheet NY-ST-JOHN-FISHER-COLLEGE-NY · St. John Fisher College, NY 1,301 pop

POP-VILLAGE · INC-UNK · COL-ABOVE · SAFE-UNK · RANK-UNK · GAP-UNK · HOME-UNK · BOOK-UNK

  • POP-VILLAGE 1,301
  • INC-UNK Income pending
  • COL-ABOVE 107.9
  • SAFE-UNK Safety pending
  • RANK-UNK Rank pending
  • GAP-UNK Gap pending
  • HOME-UNK Homes pending
  • BOOK-UNK Tracts pending

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Nationwide peers by population, income

Out-of-state nearest neighbors for St. John Fisher College 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: 1,301.

4 peers

St. John Fisher College - the verdict

New York's St. John Fisher College counts 1,301 residents. Source: Census ACS.

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: St. John Fisher College, NY

St. John Fisher College is a small town in New York, home to 1,301 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. The median resident age is 19.5 years.

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. Monthly utility costs average around $285 across New York, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. 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 St. John Fisher College'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 work and mobility; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.

For St. John Fisher College, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares. No matched row is reported here for FBI reported-crime rates, within-city Census tract profiles, matched public-school count, local building permits, annual population history; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.

1. Comparison shortlist

Which cities make useful reference points for St. John Fisher College?

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 Norwood (1,304 residents, $62,500 income); Plattekill (1,304 residents, $106,429 income); Alexandria Bay (1,296 residents, $50,603 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Stony Point, NC (1,301 residents); West Salem, OH (1,301 residents); Millbourne, PA (1,301 residents). These are mechanical peer sets, not claims that the places share a labor market, climate, culture, or metro context.

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Question 2

What does the journey to work look like in St. John Fisher College?

Walking is the largest reported mode at 48.6%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.

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.

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Population

1,301 residents

Micro place (under 10k)

Median Household Income

N/A /yr

Census ACS B19013

Cost of Living Index (state)

107.9 (US=100)

High cost · BEA RPP 2024, New York average

How does St. John Fisher College compare to other US cities?

Here's how St. John Fisher College stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.

Median rent 78% 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 St. John Fisher College 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 St. John Fisher College near the bottom of New York's cities

Among the 1,256 New York cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, St. John Fisher College ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares St. John Fisher College only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.

Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,256
0th 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.

Income distribution context

Median household income is not available for St. John Fisher College in the current Census ACS release (common for very small places).

Key socioeconomic indicators

Labor force participation (adults 16+) 35.4%

Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force

Population
1,301
Median Income
N/A
Median Home Value
N/A
Median Age
19.5
Poverty Rate
N/A
Labor force participation
35.4%
Bachelor's Degree+
N/A

Commute Patterns

Commute source

How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023

Drive Alone
27.5%
Carpool
2.0%
Public Transit
1.1%
Walk
48.6%
Work from Home
19.6%
Other
1.2%

Based on 455 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 St. John Fisher College. 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 St. John Fisher College 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 St. John Fisher College sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.

How St. John Fisher College 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.

City Population Median Household Income
St. John Fisher College (this city) 1,301 N/A
Norwood 1,304 $62,500
Plattekill 1,304 $106,429
Alexandria Bay 1,296 $50,603
Primary sources on this page

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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Citation & verification links Data sourced from the U.S. Census Bureau. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainCities

Primary sources: Census ACS, FBI UCR, NOAA Climate Normals, NCES. Joins use OMB Bulletin 23-01 / FIPS keys.

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