Rank

3040of 3,144

Livingston, New York

Score 4.40 / 10· population 61,158

Livingston County runs its government from the village of Geneseo, where SUNY Geneseo enrolled 4,051 students in fall 2025, a short drive from Rochester and Buffalo. Across 2020 to 2024, owners paid a median $4,286 a year in property tax, about 2.5 percent of the median home value of $174,600, against 0.9 percent nationally. Life expectancy was 79.4 years over 2020 to 2022, more than two years above the national figure.

Sources
  • The Livingston County Government Center is at 6 Court Street, Geneseo, NY 14454 livingstoncountyny.gov
  • SUNY Geneseo had 4,051 students in fall 2025 (3,980 undergraduate, 71 graduate) on 220 acres in the Village of Geneseo geneseo.edu
  • The SUNY Geneseo campus is a short drive from Rochester and Buffalo geneseo.edu
  • ACS 2020-2024 5-year, tables B25103 and B25077: median real estate taxes paid $4,286 on a median owner-occupied home value of $174,600 (2.45 percent); nationally $3,119 on $332,700 (0.94 percent) api.censusreporter.org
  • County Health Rankings 2025 analytic data, v147 Life Expectancy: Livingston County 79.36 years (95% CI 78.69 to 80.02); United States 77.10 countyhealthrankings.org
  • The 2025 County Health Rankings life expectancy measure uses 2020-2022 data from NCHS mortality files and Census population estimates countyhealthrankings.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 tax0.3

Environment

  1. Air quality6.5
  2. Floods / hurricanes2.7

Private behavior

  1. Homicide rate9.5
  2. Life expectancy9.1
  3. Government employees1.8
  4. Single-parent households6.6

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