Rank

3129of 3,144

Chautauqua, New York

Score 3.82 / 10· population 124,891

Chautauqua County is the westernmost county in New York, with Chautauqua Lake and a Lake Erie shore in the Concord grape belt. Factories such as the Cummins Jamestown Engine Plant employed 8,210 residents in 2024, second only to health care and social assistance at 8,552. Property tax ran 2.2 times the national rate that year, with a median bill of $2,756 against a median home value of $138,300.

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  • Chautauqua County is New York State's most western county choosechq.com
  • Cummins operates the Jamestown Engine Plant in Chautauqua County choosechq.com
  • The county's lakes include Chautauqua Lake and Lake Erie tourchautauqua.com
  • The Lake Erie Wine Trail runs amid 30,000 acres of vineyards along Lake Erie in western New York and Pennsylvania; the Grape Discovery Center is the official visitor center for the Lake Erie Concord Grape Belt tourchautauqua.com
  • ACS 2024 1-year, table C24030: of 54,382 employed Chautauqua County residents, 8,552 worked in health care and social assistance (1,414 men, 7,138 women) and 8,210 in manufacturing (6,060 men, 2,150 women); the next largest industry line, educational services, had 7,857 (1,997 men, 5,860 women). api.censusreporter.org
  • ACS 2024 1-year: Chautauqua County median real estate taxes paid $2,756; median home value $138,300 (1.99% of value). api.censusreporter.org
  • ACS 2024 1-year: United States median real estate taxes paid $3,211; median home value $360,600 (0.89% of value), so the county share (1.99%) is about 2.2 times the national one. api.censusreporter.org

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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 President6.1
  4. Sales tax2.7
  5. Property tax0.1

Environment

  1. Air quality6.4
  2. Floods / hurricanes0.9

Private behavior

  1. Homicide rate8.6
  2. Life expectancy5.5
  3. Government employees1.2
  4. Single-parent households3.5

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