Rank

2850of 3,144

Hamilton, New York

Score 4.92 / 10· population 5,082

Hamilton County lies wholly inside the Adirondack Park, northwest of Albany, and its fine-particle pollution measured 5.7 micrograms per cubic meter in 2020, well under the national 7.3. About 5,000 people lived there in 2025, and 761 of its 2,149 employed residents held government jobs in 2020-2024, over twice New York's share. Property tax over 2020-2024 came to a median $2,597 on a $260,200 home, about $1 per $100 of value, against roughly $1.55 statewide.

Sources
  • Hamilton County is in the north central part of New York, northwest of Albany, and is one of only two counties that lie entirely within the Adirondack Park ny.gov
  • County Health Rankings 2025 release, air pollution (average daily density of fine particulate matter, PM2.5): 5.7 micrograms per cubic meter in Hamilton County, 7.3 in the United States countyhealthrankings.org
  • The 2025 County Health Rankings air pollution measure uses 2020 data from the CDC Environmental Public Health Tracking Network, in micrograms per cubic meter of PM2.5 countyhealthrankings.org
  • About 5,000 people lived in Hamilton County in 2025 usafacts.org
  • ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B24080: 761 of 2,149 employed Hamilton County residents (35.4%) were local, state or federal government workers; New York State 1,563,463 of 9,523,591 (16.4%) api.censusreporter.org
  • ACS 2020-2024 5-year: median real estate taxes paid $2,597 on a median home value of $260,200 in Hamilton County (1.0%); New York State $6,582 on $423,800 (1.55%) 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 President6.5
  4. Sales tax2.7
  5. Property tax5.3

Environment

  1. Air quality6.7
  2. Floods / hurricanes5.3

Private behavior

  1. Homicide rate10.0
  2. Life expectancy8.0
  3. Government employees0.1
  4. Single-parent households4.9

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