Rank

2815of 3,144

Lewis, New York

Score 4.98 / 10· population 26,548

Lewis County, in the Black River Valley about 40 miles south of the Canadian border, covers 1,290 square miles; Lowville, its largest place, had 3,336 people in 2024. One in four employed residents works for a government, mostly local, against one in six statewide (2020 to 2024 Census estimates). Those same estimates put 73 percent of the county's children in married-couple households, against 66 percent across New York.

Sources
  • Lewis County is in the Black River Valley of Northern New York, about 40 miles south of the Canadian border. lewiscountyny.gov
  • Lewis County land area is 1,290 square miles. lewiscountyny.gov
  • Lowville is the largest place in Lewis County, with 3,336 people in 2024. usafacts.org
  • ACS 2020-2024 5-year table B24080: 3,009 of 11,753 employed Lewis County residents (26%) are government workers, 1,817 of them local government; New York State 1,563,463 of 9,523,591 (16%). api.censusreporter.org
  • ACS 2020-2024 5-year table B09005: 4,373 of 6,009 children under 18 in Lewis County households (73%) live in married-couple households; New York State 2,658,065 of 4,043,787 (66%). 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 President7.2
  4. Sales tax2.7
  5. Property tax3.1

Environment

  1. Air quality6.9
  2. Floods / hurricanes5.0

Private behavior

  1. Homicide rate10.0
  2. Life expectancy8.4
  3. Government employees0.4
  4. Single-parent households8.5

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