Rank

3066of 3,144

Otsego, New York

Score 4.27 / 10· population 60,126

Otsego County, west of Albany, is relatively rural, with the Baseball Hall of Fame in its seat, Cooperstown, and a SUNY campus in Oneonta, the only city. In Census estimates for 2020-2024, 21 percent of employed residents worked for a government, against 14.5 percent nationally. Over the same years the median owner paid $3,041 in property tax on a $179,100 home, about $17 per $1,000 of value, close to double the U.S. figure of about $9.

Sources
  • Otsego County is west of Albany, southeast of Utica and northeast of Binghamton; the county as a whole remains relatively rural ny.gov
  • The county seat is Cooperstown, and the county has the National Baseball Hall of Fame ny.gov
  • The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum is at 25 Main St, Cooperstown, NY baseballhall.org
  • Oneonta is the county's only city, and the State University of New York at Oneonta is in the City of Oneonta ny.gov
  • ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B24080: 5,627 of 26,938 employed Otsego County residents (20.9%) were local, state or federal government workers; United States 23,455,993 of 161,297,150 (14.5%) api.censusreporter.org
  • ACS 2020-2024 5-year: median real estate taxes paid $3,041 and median home value $179,100 in Otsego County ($16.98 per $1,000); United States $3,119 and $332,700 ($9.37 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 President5.4
  4. Sales tax2.7
  5. Property tax2.3

Environment

  1. Air quality6.7
  2. Floods / hurricanes1.4

Private behavior

  1. Homicide rate9.1
  2. Life expectancy7.6
  3. Government employees1.4
  4. Single-parent households5.1

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