Rank

3119of 3,144

Montgomery, New York

Score 3.92 / 10· population 49,368

The Erie Canal runs beside the Mohawk River through Montgomery County, 410 square miles of the Mohawk Valley with Amsterdam as its only city. Its median property tax bill for 2020 to 2024, $3,872, was about one-fortieth of the median home value, more than twice the US ratio. Single parents headed the homes of 29% of children over 2019 to 2023, against 26% statewide, and life expectancy in 2020 to 2022 was 75.2 years, to New York's 79.4.

Sources
  • The Erie Canal runs through Montgomery County, parallel to the Mohawk River ny.gov
  • Montgomery County covers 410 square miles in the heart of the Mohawk Valley ny.gov
  • The county has 10 towns and one city, Amsterdam ny.gov
  • ACS 2024 5-year (2020-2024), table B25103: median real estate taxes paid were $3,872 in Montgomery County and $3,119 in the United States api.censusreporter.org
  • ACS 2024 5-year (2020-2024), table B25077: median home value was $157,500 in Montgomery County and $332,700 in the United States; the median tax bill equals 2.46% of the median value in the county (about one-fortieth) and 0.94% nationally, a ratio 2.6 times the US one api.censusreporter.org
  • County Health Rankings 2025 data: 29% (28.7%) of Montgomery County children live in households headed by a single parent, against 26% (26.3%) in New York State; life expectancy is 75.2 years in the county and 79.4 (79.35) statewide countyhealthrankings.org
  • In County Health Rankings 2025, life expectancy covers 2020-2022 and children in single-parent households covers 2019-2023 (ACS five-year 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 President6.4
  4. Sales tax2.7
  5. Property tax0.0

Environment

  1. Air quality6.4
  2. Floods / hurricanes2.0

Private behavior

  1. Homicide rate8.8
  2. Life expectancy5.0
  3. Government employees2.7
  4. Single-parent households2.5

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