Rank

3065of 3,144

Orange, New York

Score 4.27 / 10· population 407,470

Orange County's seat, Goshen, is about 60 miles northwest of New York City in the Hudson Valley, and the average commute was 34.1 minutes in 2020-2024. Over those years property tax cost the median owner $8,494 a year, over $700 a month and 2.7 times the national median bill. In 2020-2022 mortality data, life expectancy here reached 78.8 years; the U.S. figure was 77.1.

Sources
  • The Village of Goshen is the county seat of Orange County villageofgoshen-ny.gov
  • Goshen is in Orange County, New York, within the Hudson Valley villageofgoshen-ny.gov
  • Goshen is approximately 60 miles northwest of New York City villageofgoshen-ny.gov
  • ACS 2020-2024 5-year: aggregate travel time to work 5,459,010 minutes over 160,194 commuting workers in Orange County, a mean of 34.1 minutes api.censusreporter.org
  • ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25103: median real estate taxes paid $8,494 in Orange County (about $708 a month) api.censusreporter.org
  • ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25103: median real estate taxes paid $3,119 in the United States; Orange County's $8,494 is 2.7 times that api.censusreporter.org
  • County Health Rankings 2025 release: life expectancy 78.79 years in Orange County countyhealthrankings.org
  • County Health Rankings 2025 release: life expectancy 77.10 years in the United States countyhealthrankings.org
  • The 2025 County Health Rankings release used 2020-2022 NCHS mortality data for the life expectancy measure 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 President5.4
  4. Sales tax2.6
  5. Property tax0.0

Environment

  1. Air quality7.0
  2. Floods / hurricanes0.7

Private behavior

  1. Homicide rate8.9
  2. Life expectancy9.7
  3. Government employees1.6
  4. Single-parent households8.1

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