Rank

3044of 3,144

Putnam, New York

Score 4.38 / 10· population 98,060

Putnam County sits between the Hudson River and the Connecticut line, on hilly land that reaches into the Hudson Highlands near the river. In 2024, 22 percent of its working residents held government jobs, against 15 percent nationally, and the median property tax bill was $10,000 or more, against $3,211 nationally. Fifteen percent of its children lived in a home headed by someone with no spouse or partner, against 27 percent across New York.

Sources
  • Putnam County lies between the Hudson River and the Connecticut state line putnamcountyny.gov
  • The county's terrain is generally hilly; the region nearest the Hudson River is especially so and is part of the Hudson Highlands ny.gov
  • ACS 2024 1-year, table B24080: 11,089 of 49,930 employed Putnam County residents (22.2 percent) were local, state or federal government workers; nationally 24,424,760 of 167,292,670 (14.6 percent) api.censusreporter.org
  • ACS 2024 1-year, table B25103: Putnam County median real estate taxes paid is in the top-coded $10,000-or-more bracket (reported as 10,001); the national median is $3,211 api.censusreporter.org
  • ACS 2024 1-year, table B09005: of 18,291 Putnam County children in households, 2,690 (14.7 percent) lived in a male- or female-householder household with no spouse or partner present; New York State 1,046,888 of 3,947,045 (26.5 percent) 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 President5.7
  4. Sales tax2.4
  5. Property tax0.0

Environment

  1. Air quality6.7
  2. Floods / hurricanes2.7

Private behavior

  1. Homicide rate9.2
  2. Life expectancy10.0
  3. Government employees0.4
  4. Single-parent households8.9

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