Rank

3061of 3,144

Rockland, New York

Score 4.29 / 10· population 340,807

Rockland County lies on the west bank of the Hudson, 15 miles northwest of Manhattan, and about a third of it is parkland, including Bear Mountain and Harriman state parks. Households here are large and mostly married: 87% of children live with married parents, compared with 66% across New York, and the average household has 3.25 people to the state's 2.45. Life expectancy is 81 years, 1.7 years above New York's.

Sources
  • Rockland County is 15 miles northwest of Manhattan, west of Westchester County across the Hudson River, with Nyack Beach State Park along the Hudson ny.gov
  • Roughly one-third of Rockland County is parkland; its state parks include Bear Mountain State Park at the county's northern tip and Harriman State Park along its northern boundary ny.gov
  • ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B09005: 91,459 of 105,370 Rockland County children under 18 in households (87%) live in married-couple households; New York State 2,601,616 of 3,947,045 (66%) api.censusreporter.org
  • ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25010: average household size is 3.25 in Rockland County and 2.45 in New York State api.censusreporter.org
  • County Health Rankings 2025 data: life expectancy is 81.0 years in Rockland County and 79.4 years in New York State 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 President5.6
  4. Sales tax2.4
  5. Property tax0.0

Environment

  1. Air quality6.3
  2. Floods / hurricanes0.8

Private behavior

  1. Homicide rate8.9
  2. Life expectancy10.0
  3. Government employees1.9
  4. Single-parent households9.3

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