Rank

3073of 3,144

Tioga, New York

Score 4.24 / 10· population 47,715

Tioga County covers 523 square miles of the southern Finger Lakes, west of Binghamton on the Pennsylvania line, and its nine towns include Owego, Candor and Newark Valley. A baby born there in 2020-2022 could expect to live 78.6 years, a year and a half longer than the U.S. average. Property tax bills ran a median $3,751 over 2020-2024 on a median home value of $160,800, a 2.3 percent ratio, more than double the U.S. figure.

Sources
  • Tioga County covers 523 square miles in the southern Finger Lakes Region, west of Binghamton and directly north of the Pennsylvania border ny.gov
  • The county has nine towns, including Owego, Candor and Newark Valley ny.gov
  • County Health Rankings 2025 release: life expectancy 78.6 years in Tioga County, 77.1 in the United States countyhealthrankings.org
  • The 2025 County Health Rankings life expectancy measure uses 2020-2022 NCHS mortality data countyhealthrankings.org
  • ACS 2020-2024 5-year: Tioga County median real estate taxes paid $3,751 and median home value $160,800 (about 2.3%); United States $3,119 and $332,700 (about 0.94%) 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 President6.1
  4. Sales tax2.7
  5. Property tax0.0

Environment

  1. Air quality6.3
  2. Floods / hurricanes2.1

Private behavior

  1. Homicide rate9.1
  2. Life expectancy8.9
  3. Government employees2.1
  4. Single-parent households5.5

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