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SheetNY-WYNANTSKILL-NY · Wynantskill, NY 3,675 pop · income 82nd 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 Wynantskill
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Wynantskill on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Manila · lowest
65,691
Manila · lowest
65,691 median HH income
32.5% of the leader · rank #1
Litchfield · near
107,024
Litchfield · near
107,024 median HH income
52.9% of the leader · rank #2
Wynantskill · this city
107,045
Wynantskill · this city
107,045 median HH income
52.9% of the leader · rank #3
Westerville · near
107,054
Westerville · near
107,054 median HH income
52.9% of the leader · rank #4
Middlesex · near
107,063
Middlesex · near
107,063 median HH income
52.9% of the leader · rank #5
Lake Telemark · near
107,065
Lake Telemark · near
107,065 median HH income
52.9% of the leader · rank #6
Setauket · highest
202,339
Setauket · highest
202,339 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 Wynantskill 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: 3,675.
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Wynantskill places in the 82nd percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.
82nd
percentile, household income
63rd
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: Wynantskill, NY
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 3,675 residents in Wynantskill, a small town within New York. Median household income here is $107,045 per year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 1.4%. Home values in Wynantskill run a median of $286,900, and the median resident age is 43.8 years. Educational attainment runs 39.9% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 68.9% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
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). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $1,579 per month. 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 Wynantskill'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 to housing and income; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Wynantskill, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for FBI reported-crime rates, local building permits, annual population history, matched public-school count, 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 Wynantskill?
Within New York, the closest population matches are Putnam Lake (3,673 residents, $105,284 income); Setauket (3,687 residents, $202,339 income); Spencerport (3,660 residents, $79,200 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Manila, AR (3,675 residents); Harrisburg, OR (3,675 residents); Delta, UT (3,675 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.
What does the journey to work look like in Wynantskill?
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.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 72.8%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
How far does income reach against housing in Wynantskill?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 2.7 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 1.4%, 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.
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.
Poverty rate A+
1.4%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Household income A-
$107,045
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share B+
39.9%
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.
Violent crime N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
Wynantskill profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Poverty rate: 90/100 (A+) · 1.4%
Household income: 80/100 (A-) · $107,045
Bachelor's+ share: 75/100 (B+) · 39.9%
Cost of living: 12/100 (F) · 107.9 index
How does Wynantskill compare to other US cities?
Wynantskill measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income82% higher than other cities
Home value63% 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 Wynantskill 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 Wynantskill near the bottom of New York's cities
Among the 1,256 New York cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Wynantskill ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Wynantskill only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#384 of 1,205
68th percentile in New York
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,256
0th percentile in New York
Median Home Value
#514 of 1,202
57th percentile in New York
Poverty Rate
#958 of 1,246
23rd percentile in New York
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#491 of 1,254
61st 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
82nd percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Wynantskill's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$286,90037th percentilemore affordable than 37% 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
Wynantskill's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.7×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#4,918 of 15,516
More affordable than 68% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#4,328 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 2.7×, Wynantskill sits in the affordable band:
national rank #4,918 of 15,516 and #4,328 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
$107,045Wynantskill, NY median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Wynantskill, 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 Wynantskill, NY.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)39.9%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)1.4%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)68.9%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
3,675
Median Income
$107,045
Median Home Value
$286,900
Median Age
43.8
Poverty Rate
1.4%
Labor force participation
68.9%
Bachelor's Degree+
39.9%
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
72.8%
Carpool
6.1%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.4%
Work from Home
20.4%
Based on 2,022 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 Wynantskill. 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 Wynantskill 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 Wynantskill sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Wynantskill 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.