Rank

3015of 3,144

Seneca, New York

Score 4.48 / 10· population 32,349

Seneca County lies between Seneca and Cayuga lakes in the Finger Lakes; its towns include Waterloo, Seneca Falls and Ovid, and the del Lago casino is in Tyre. Over 2020 to 2024, owners with no mortgage paid a median $3,245 a year in property tax, against $2,576 for such owners nationally. Of the county's 6,663 children in households in those years, 4,709, or 71%, lived in a married-couple household; across New York the share was 66%.

Sources
  • Seneca County is between Seneca and Cayuga Lakes in the Finger Lakes. discoverseneca.com
  • Towns in Seneca County include Waterloo, Seneca Falls and Ovid. discoverseneca.com
  • The Town of Tyre is anchored by del Lago Resort & Casino. discoverseneca.com
  • ACS 2024 5-year (2020-2024), table B25103: median real estate taxes paid by owners with no mortgage were $3,245 in Seneca County api.censusreporter.org
  • ACS 2024 5-year (2020-2024), table B25103: median real estate taxes paid by owners with no mortgage were $2,576 in the United States api.censusreporter.org
  • ACS 2024 5-year (2020-2024), table B09005: 4,709 of 6,663 children under 18 in Seneca County households (71%) lived in married-couple households; New York State 2,658,065 of 4,043,787 (66%) 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 President5.6
  4. Sales tax2.7
  5. Property tax0.6

Environment

  1. Air quality6.4
  2. Floods / hurricanes3.6

Private behavior

  1. Homicide rate10.0
  2. Life expectancy7.5
  3. Government employees1.6
  4. Single-parent households8.6

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