Rank

3058of 3,144

Ontario, New York

Score 4.31 / 10· population 112,494

Ontario County begins about 10 miles southeast of Rochester, and its two cities sit on Finger Lakes shores, Canandaigua at the north end of Canandaigua Lake and Geneva on Seneca Lake. The county's life expectancy, 79.8 years over 2020-2022, ran 2.7 years ahead of the nation's. Each $1,000 of median home value carried about $18 of property tax in 2024, against $14.50 across New York.

Sources
  • Ontario County is about 10 miles southeast of Rochester visitfingerlakes.com
  • Ontario County has two cities: Canandaigua, on the north end of Canandaigua Lake, and Geneva, on the northern rim of Seneca Lake visitfingerlakes.com
  • County Health Rankings 2025 release: Ontario County life expectancy 79.76 years countyhealthrankings.org
  • County Health Rankings 2025 release: United States life expectancy 77.10 years, 2.7 years below Ontario County's countyhealthrankings.org
  • The 2025 County Health Rankings release used 2020-2022 NCHS mortality data for the life expectancy measure countyhealthrankings.org
  • ACS 2024 1-year, tables B25103 and B25077: Ontario County median real estate taxes paid $4,701 on a median home value of $258,200 (about $18.21 per $1,000) api.censusreporter.org
  • ACS 2024 1-year, tables B25103 and B25077: New York State median real estate taxes paid $6,542 on a median home value of $449,800 (about $14.54 per $1,000) 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 President5.1
  4. Sales tax3.2
  5. Property tax0.6

Environment

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

Private behavior

  1. Homicide rate9.3
  2. Life expectancy9.6
  3. Government employees2.2
  4. Single-parent households5.7

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