Rank

3099of 3,144

Oswego, New York

Score 4.11 / 10· population 118,162

Oswego County lies between Lake Ontario and Oneida Lake, and salmon run up the Salmon River each fall. Two nuclear plants, FitzPatrick and Nine Mile Point, operate there, and utilities employed about 3 percent of working residents in 2024, against under 1 percent nationally. At the national ratio of tax to home value, the county's $156,600 median home would owe about $1,390 a year; the actual 2024 median bill was $3,464.

Sources
  • Oswego County is situated between Lake Ontario, the Tug Hill Plateau and Oneida Lake visitoswegocounty.com
  • Oswego County fishing includes the fall salmon run; fall fishing on the Salmon River visitoswegocounty.com
  • The FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant and Nine Mile Point Nuclear Station are in Oswego County oswegocounty.org
  • ACS 2024 1-year, table C24030: utilities employed 1,644 of Oswego County's 54,648 civilian employed residents (3.0 percent) api.censusreporter.org
  • ACS 2024 1-year, table C24030: utilities employed 1,483,613 of 167,292,670 civilian employed residents of the United States (0.9 percent) api.censusreporter.org
  • ACS 2024 1-year, tables B25103 and B25077: Oswego County median real estate taxes paid $3,464 on a median home value of $156,600 (2.2 percent) api.censusreporter.org
  • ACS 2024 1-year, tables B25103 and B25077: United States median real estate taxes paid $3,211 on a median home value of $360,600 (0.89 percent); at that ratio a $156,600 home would owe about $1,394 api.censusreporter.org

v4 — beta, 30 October 2026, sourced values

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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 President6.2
  4. Sales tax2.7
  5. Property tax0.3

Environment

  1. Air quality6.7
  2. Floods / hurricanes1.8

Private behavior

  1. Homicide rate9.1
  2. Life expectancy6.3
  3. Government employees2.3
  4. Single-parent households4.4

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