Rank

2889of 3,144

Yates, New York

Score 4.82 / 10· population 24,472

Yates County is in the Finger Lakes, around Keuka Lake, where Mennonite families began buying farms in 1974 and horse-drawn buggies still travel the back roads. From 2020 to 2024, one in six working residents ran an unincorporated business, nearly triple the state share, and 13 percent worked for a government, against 16 percent statewide. In those years homeowners paid a median $3,477 in yearly property tax on homes worth a median $184,700, against $3,119 on $332,700 nationwide.

Sources
  • Yates County is an area of the Finger Lakes (Finger Lakes Times, April 19, 2020) fltimes.com
  • The first Mennonite families began purchasing farms in Yates County in 1974 keukaroots.com
  • Horse-drawn buggies still travel the back roads, and thousands of Mennonite residents live throughout the countryside surrounding Keuka Lake (page dated March 18, 2026) keukaroots.com
  • ACS 2020-2024 5-year table B24080: 1,688 of 10,388 employed Yates County residents (16%) were self-employed in their own unincorporated businesses; New York State 538,662 of 9,523,591 (6%) api.censusreporter.org
  • ACS 2020-2024 5-year table B24080: 1,390 of 10,388 employed Yates County residents (13%) were local, state or federal government workers; New York State 1,563,463 of 9,523,591 (16%) api.censusreporter.org
  • ACS 2020-2024 5-year tables B25103 and B25077, owner-occupied housing: median real estate taxes paid $3,477 and median home value $184,700 in Yates County; $3,119 and $332,700 in the United States 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 President5.8
  4. Sales tax2.7
  5. Property tax2.9

Environment

  1. Air quality6.6
  2. Floods / hurricanes3.3

Private behavior

  1. Homicide rate9.8
  2. Life expectancy8.4
  3. Government employees5.4
  4. Single-parent households6.2

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