Rank

3002of 3,144

Schoharie, New York

Score 4.50 / 10· population 30,105

Schoharie County lies between the Catskills and the Adirondacks, 30 minutes from the Capital Region, and Cobleskill, its largest place, had 4,533 people in 2024. Cobleskill has a State University of New York campus, and state government employed 9.8 percent of working residents in 2020-2024 Census estimates, more than double the statewide share. Median property tax bills ran $3,914 over those years, above the U.S. $3,119, on homes worth $140,000 less than the national median.

Sources
  • Schoharie County is between the Catskills and the Adirondacks, 30 minutes to the Capital Region schohariecounty-ny.gov
  • Cobleskill is the largest place in Schoharie County, with 4,533 people in 2024 usafacts.org
  • The State University of New York College of Agriculture and Technology at Cobleskill is at 106 Suffolk Circle, Cobleskill, NY cobleskill.edu
  • ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B24080: 1,309 of 13,392 employed Schoharie County residents (9.8%) were state government workers, against 410,453 of 9,523,591 (4.3%) in New York State; all government workers were 3,314 (24.7%) in the county api.censusreporter.org
  • ACS 2020-2024 5-year: median real estate taxes paid $3,914 and median home value $192,500 in Schoharie County; United States $3,119 and $332,700 (a $140,200 difference in home value) 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 President6.5
  4. Sales tax2.7
  5. Property tax0.6

Environment

  1. Air quality6.7
  2. Floods / hurricanes3.4

Private behavior

  1. Homicide rate10.0
  2. Life expectancy9.1
  3. Government employees0.9
  4. Single-parent households6.0

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