Rank

3086of 3,144

Cayuga, New York

Score 4.18 / 10· population 74,485

Cayuga County reaches from Lake Ontario in the north to the five waterfalls of Fillmore Glen State Park in the south, with Owasco Lake in between and Auburn as its seat. The median 2024 property tax bill was $3,632 on a median home worth $185,900, more than double the national ratio of tax to value. Government employed one in five working residents that year, against about one in seven nationwide, and the state runs prisons in Auburn and Moravia.

Sources
  • Northern Cayuga County has access to Lake Ontario; central Cayuga has park access to Owasco Lake; Fillmore Glen State Park has five waterfalls; the city of Auburn is the county seat tourcayuga.com
  • ACS 2024 1-year, tables B25103 and B25077: median real estate taxes paid $3,632 on a median owner-occupied home value of $185,900 (1.95 percent); nationally $3,211 on $360,600 (0.89 percent) api.censusreporter.org
  • ACS 2024 1-year, table B24080: 7,036 of 35,406 employed civilian residents of Cayuga County were local, state or federal government workers (19.9 percent); nationally 24,424,760 of 167,292,670 (14.6 percent) api.censusreporter.org
  • Auburn Correctional Facility, 135 State Street, Auburn, is a New York DOCCS maximum security facility for males doccs.ny.gov
  • Cayuga Correctional Facility in Moravia, Cayuga County, is a New York DOCCS medium security facility for males doccs.ny.gov

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Eleven factors

Government behavior

  1. Fraser Institute state ranking (state)4.4
  2. 2A (state)0.0
  3. GOP + LP vote for President5.6
  4. Sales tax2.7
  5. Property tax0.9

Environment

  1. Air quality6.5
  2. Floods / hurricanes2.2

Private behavior

  1. Homicide rate9.2
  2. Life expectancy8.3
  3. Government employees1.5
  4. Single-parent households4.1

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