Rank

3046of 3,144

Columbia, New York

Score 4.37 / 10· population 60,470

Columbia County stretches from the Hudson River to the Massachusetts line southeast of Albany; Hudson is its one city, and Kinderhook and Copake are among its 18 towns. Kamala Harris carried the county in 2024 with 20,396 votes to Donald Trump's 15,168. People there lived about two years longer than Americans overall in 2020-2022, at 79.2 years, and the typical owner's property tax in 2020-2024 Census estimates, $4,852 a year, ran about $1,700 above the national median.

Sources
  • Columbia County is in eastern New York southeast of Albany, immediately west of the Massachusetts border; its western border is the Hudson River ny.gov
  • Its municipalities are the City of Hudson, its only city, and 18 towns, among them Kinderhook and Copake ny.gov
  • New York State Board of Elections results database, President of the United States, General Election November 2024: Columbia County cast 20,396 votes for Kamala D. Harris and Tim Walz and 15,168 for Donald J. Trump and JD Vance, of 36,326 total ballots including blanks and voids results.elections.ny.gov
  • County Health Rankings 2025 release: life expectancy 79.2 years in Columbia County, 77.1 in the United States countyhealthrankings.org
  • The 2025 County Health Rankings life expectancy measure uses 2020-2022 NCHS mortality data countyhealthrankings.org
  • ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25103: median real estate taxes paid $4,852 in Columbia County and $3,119 in the United States, a difference of $1,733 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 President4.2
  4. Sales tax2.7
  5. Property tax4.0

Environment

  1. Air quality6.2
  2. Floods / hurricanes1.9

Private behavior

  1. Homicide rate9.2
  2. Life expectancy9.2
  3. Government employees3.4
  4. Single-parent households2.7

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