Rank

3111of 3,144

Cattaraugus, New York

Score 3.98 / 10· population 75,600

Cattaraugus County sits just north of the Pennsylvania line in southwestern New York, where Olean and Salamanca are the only cities and Allegany State Park is the state's largest. Homeowners paid a median $2,869 in property tax in 2024, about 2.2 percent of the $133,000 median home value and more than twice the national share. Local government employed 11 percent of working residents that year, compared with under 8 percent nationwide.

Sources
  • Cattaraugus County lies immediately north of the Pennsylvania border in southwestern New York; its cities are Olean and Salamanca ny.gov
  • Allegany State Park, in Cattaraugus County, is the largest state park in New York State ny.gov
  • ACS 2024 1-year, tables B25103 and B25077: median real estate taxes paid $2,869 on a median owner-occupied home value of $133,000 (2.16 percent); nationally $3,211 on $360,600 (0.89 percent) api.censusreporter.org
  • ACS 2024 1-year, table B24080: 3,793 of 33,226 employed civilian residents of Cattaraugus County were local government workers (11.4 percent); nationally 12,815,005 of 167,292,670 (7.7 percent) api.censusreporter.org

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Government behavior

  1. Fraser Institute state ranking (state)4.4
  2. 2A (state)0.0
  3. GOP + LP vote for President6.6
  4. Sales tax2.7
  5. Property tax0.4

Environment

  1. Air quality6.5
  2. Floods / hurricanes1.0

Private behavior

  1. Homicide rate9.3
  2. Life expectancy4.5
  3. Government employees0.7
  4. Single-parent households4.7

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