Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US cities and towns.

Safety85#2,301/15,637
Economy26#11,570/15,631
Housing29#10,681/14,977
Health54#7,181/15,609
Healthcare18#12,820/15,650
Environment85#2,320/15,453
Education62#5,987/15,649
Infrastructure12#13,836/15,650
Community55#7,019/15,651
Leisure & amenities86#2,112/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Catskill, New York ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Greene County value” are the county’s: the source publishes no figure for this city or town, and the county holding most of its residents stands in.

Strengths

Public EV charging ports · high26.9 /10k
98/100New York 10.8 /10kUnited States 7.6 /10kOct 2026U.S. Department of EnergyGreene County value
Students per teacher · low9.8×
98/100New York 12.0×United States 15.2×2024National Center for Education StatisticsGreene County value
Restaurants and bars · high17.6 /10k
97/100New York 11.3 /10kUnited States 9.0 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsGreene County value
Violent crime rate · low64 /100k
95/100New York 368 /100kUnited States 328 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationCovers part of the area: some reporting agencies or member counties have no figureGreene County value
Drought exposure · low1%
94/100New York 15%United States 43%Oct 2025–Sep 2026National Drought Mitigation Center (University of Nebraska–Lincoln), USDA and NOAAGreene County value
Property crime rate · low363 /100k
94/100New York 1,575 /100kUnited States 1,535 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationCovers part of the area: some reporting agencies or member counties have no figureGreene County value

Weaknesses

Income inequality (Gini index) · high0.542
2/100New York 0.517United States 0.4832020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B19083
Broadband subscriptions · low77.3%
7/100New York 90.8%United States 91.0%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B28002
Average commute time · high25.8 min
8/100New York 32.6 minUnited States 26.4 min2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B08013
Unemployment rate · high10.7%
8/100New York 4.3%United States 4.3%2020-2024U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Census table B23025
Primary care physicians · low27 /100k
10/100New York 83 /100kUnited States 76 /100k2022University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteGreene County value
Distance to an emergency room · high12.7 mi
11/100New York 3.6 miUnited States 5.5 miJul 2026Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesGreene County value

Trends

The largest changes over about five years, next to the country's over the same periods.

Rent-burdened householdsImproving
74.1% (2015-2019) → 38.6% (2020-2024)
−36 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Median household incomeImproving
$35,515 (2015-2019) → $79,423 (2020-2024)
+124%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604
Poverty rateImproving
35.5% (2015-2019) → 11.2% (2020-2024)
−24 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 12.3% → 12.1%
Rent as share of incomeImproving
45.9% (2015-2019) → 23.3% (2020-2024)
−23 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%
Child poverty rateImproving
18.5% (2015-2019) → 0.0% (2020-2024)
−18 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Bachelor's degree or higherImproving
21.3% (2015-2019) → 32.8% (2020-2024)
+12 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 32.1% → 35.7%

What changed in five years

How each measure moved between two periods about five years apart, read against whether more or less is better, the published margin of error and the same change in other places.

Over about five years, Catskill, New York improved on 6 of 11 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 5 moved within the margin of error and 0 barely changed.

Earlier (2015-2019)
Latest (2020-2024)
Lower standingHigher standing

Position is the place's standing among cities and towns: further right is better, whichever way the measure counts.

Improved6

Poverty−24 points35.5% → 11.2%
Household income+124%$35,515 → $79,423
Rent / income−23 points45.9% → 23.3%
Price / income−1.5×4.6× → 3.1×
Rent burden−36 points74.1% → 38.6%

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 11 measures

Change of every measure of Catskill, New York between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	20.3 min2015-2019	25.8 min2020-2024	+5.5 min	Within the margin of error	8%
Bachelor's degree or higher	21.3%2015-2019	32.8%2020-2024	+12 points	Improved	93%
Broadband subscriptions	66.2%2015-2019	77.3%2020-2024	+11 points	Within the margin of error	65%
Effective property tax rate	2.21%2015-2019	1.59%2020-2024	−0.6 points	Within the margin of error	95%
High school diploma or higher	81.2%2015-2019	89.4%2020-2024	+8.2 points	Within the margin of error	92%
Home price to income ratio	4.6×2015-2019	3.1×2020-2024	−1.5×	Improved	99%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4552015-2019	0.5422020-2024	+0.087	Within the margin of error	6%
Median household income	$35,5152015-2019	$79,4232020-2024	+124%	Improved	99%
Poverty rate	35.5%2015-2019	11.2%2020-2024	−24 points	Improved	100%
Rent as share of income	45.9%2015-2019	23.3%2020-2024	−23 points	Improved	99%
Rent-burdened households	74.1%2015-2019	38.6%2020-2024	−36 points	Improved	98%

“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 14640 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.

Sources: American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates. Values are the latest and the one five years earlier of the same publisher dataset; datasets that changed publisher in between are never compared.

Survey estimates (American Community Survey) compare the two most recent 5-year windows that do not share years, so the margin of error of the difference holds. The 2015-2019 window predates the pandemic and 2020-2024 includes it.
A change counts only when it is larger than 1.645 times the square root of the two standard errors squared, summed (a 90% margin). Measures published without a margin must change by at least 5% to count.
“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 15651 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.
Standing is a percentile among the same places: 0 is the lowest value on the measure (or the worst when lower is better), 100 the best.

Cities and towns like Catskill, New York five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Catskill, New York in the earlier period, ranked by how many measures improved beyond the margin of error, minus how many declined. A comparison of published data, not a forecast and not advice.

For comparison, Catskill, New York itself moved +23.3 points in standing on average over the same 10 measures (standings of all places average about zero).

How the ranking works

Similarity is the root-mean-square difference of standings in the earlier period over the measures most places have. Places are ranked by measures that improved beyond the margin of error minus those that declined (a count that estimation noise in small places cannot inflate), then by the mean change of standing over the measures a place has in both periods. Only places with more improvements than declines and a rise in standing are listed. Standings are relative, so a place can improve in absolute terms and still lose standing.

Who lives here

Age, race and education of residents, from the American Community Survey. Shares are of all residents (age), residents of every origin (race) or adults 25 and over (education).

Age and sex

3,779 residents (±26)

Men
Women

80 and over†
70–79†
60–69†
50–59†
40–49†
30–39†
20–29†
10–19†
Under 10†

Share of all residents, each sex

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: 50–59 women (+7.1 points).

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B01001View table on data.census.gov

Race and Hispanic origin

3,779 residents (±26)

Catskill, New York
New York share

White76%2,874
Black7.5%†283
Hispanic or Latino8.0%†303

Education

2,957 residents (±191)

Catskill, New York
New York share

No high school diploma11%†314
High school or GED29%854
Some college20%†582

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Income

How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.

Household income

1,708 households (±174)

Catskill, New York
New York share

Under $25k15%†255
$25k–50k23%†392
$50k–75k9.0%†153
$75k–100k13%†229
$100k–150k15%†258
$150k–200k11%†192
$200k or more13%†229

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: Under $25k (−18.9 points).

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B19001View table on data.census.gov

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Homes

Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.

Owners and renters

1,708 households (±174)

Catskill, New York
New York share

Own56%959
Rent44%749

No change since 2015–2019 is larger than the margin of error.

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B25003View table on data.census.gov

Rent paid

749 households (±165)

Catskill, New York
New York share

Under $75024%†180
$750–1,00021%†155
$1,000–1,50040%†296

Home values

959 homes (±167)

Catskill, New York
New York share

Under $150k23%†217
$150k–250k30%†291
$250k–400k20%†188

Age of homes

1,943 homes (±205)

Catskill, New York
New York share

2010 or later3.1%†60
2000–20093.6%†70
1980–19991.0%†19

Size of homes

1,943 homes (±205)

Catskill, New York
New York share

Studio0.0%0
1 bedroom21%†399
2 bedrooms36%696

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Getting to work

How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.

How people get to work

2,050 workers (±255)

Catskill, New York
New York share

Drive alone67%1,371
Carpool9.3%†190
Public transit3.1%†63
Walk2.8%†57
Bike0.6%†13
Work from home17%†348
Other0.4%†8

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: Work from home (+12.1 points).

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B08301View table on data.census.gov

Time to get to work

1,702 workers (±245)

Catskill, New York
New York share

Under 15 min34%575
15–29 min30%†507
30–44 min22%†378

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Local businesses

Employer businesses and sole proprietors by industry, per resident and against the state and the nation. Counts of businesses next to counts of people, not a measure of demand.

The Census Bureau publishes business counts by county, not by city, so these are the figures of Greene County, the county holding most of Catskill's residents.

Greene County has 1,203 employer establishments, 254 for every 10,000 residents (1.02× the US rate of 248; 0.93× New York's), with 10,966 paid employees at an average annual pay of $44,041. The Census Bureau also counts 4,439 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 1,203; 4,439 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 254; US 248 · New York 274
Paid employees: 10,966
Average annual pay: $44,041; US $68,342

Employer establishments, employees, average pay and nonemployers of Greene County by industry, with the density per resident against the nation

Restaurants and other eating places	135	28.5	1.55×More than typical	1,185	$24,664	24
Specialty trade contractors	93	19.6	1.27×More than typical	293	$55,935	429
Full-service restaurants	82	17.3	2.25×More than typical	731	$26,449	6
Construction of buildings	60	12.7	1.67×More than typical	172	$51,169	179
Traveler accommodation	45	9.5	5.26×More than typical	1,221	$25,331	40
Lessors of real estate	40	8.4	0.68×Fewer than typical	152	$47,033	620
Ambulatory health care services	39	8.2	0.39×Fewer than typical	346	$49,295	166
Services to buildings and dwellings	39	8.2	1.22×About typical	64	$43,719	291
Gasoline stations	35	7.4	2.28×More than typical	324	$31,457	—
Limited-service restaurants	35	7.4	0.92×About typical	355	$21,510	10
Building equipment contractors	33	7	1.16×About typical	130	$46,692	67
Automotive repair and maintenance	27	5.7	1.13×About typical	86	$47,930	39

Rank places for an industry Open Greene County

County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024)

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 47,411 residents here, 336,755,052 in the United States. County Business Patterns counts establishments in 2023; the Nonemployer Statistics count businesses in 2024.
“More than typical” is a density at least 1.25 times the nation's per resident, “fewer” at most 0.8 times, with at least 10 establishments. It compares counts of businesses with counts of people: it says nothing about demand, incomes, size, quality or profit, and visitors and commuters are not residents.
The Census Bureau adds noise to employment and payroll to protect confidentiality, and withholds some figures: an industry with few establishments can show employees or pay as unavailable.
Industries overlap: a narrower industry (full-service restaurants) is part of a broader one (restaurants), so the rows do not add up.
Industries follow the North American Industry Classification System; the two surveys use different editions (NAICS 2017 and 2022), which this page matches industry by industry.

Federal contracts performed here

In FY2026, an estimated $24.4K of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Catskill, New York: $6.45 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $24.4K; +138% vs FY2025
Per resident: $6.45; US $1,994
Sole-source: 0.0%; US 30%
Single offer: 0.0%; US 8.8%

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Top buying agencies

Top recipients

Spending by fiscal year

8.1KFY2017
7KFY2018
16KFY2019
235.1FY2020
44.6KFY2021
33.7KFY2022
15.5KFY2023
44.8KFY2024

Top industries (NAICS)

Nonresidential building construction · 2362$15.4K63%
Architectural, engineering, and related services · 5413$6,24726%
Nursing care facilities (skilled nursing facilities) · 6231$2,73611%

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026.

How this is estimated

Agencies report each contract action's place of performance as a county and a ZIP code. A ZIP code's money is split among the cities it covers by the share of its land inside each (Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation areas); the part outside city limits stays with the county.

The place of performance is what the contracting agency reports, often the contractor's office rather than where the work happens.
Shares are of land, not of people or businesses: a ZIP code that is mostly rural land but has its offices in town gives the town less than it should.
ZIP codes that are not mapped areas (post office boxes, the unique ZIP codes of large federal sites and companies) stay with their county, unless one city covers nearly all of it.
Counts of actions and awards include those only partly in Catskill, New York, so they do not add up across cities.

Catskill, New York's figures are part of those of Greene County, NY ($1M in FY2026), never added to them: 2.3% of that total.

Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: Catskill is mostly in Greene County.

See federal money in Greene County

Representation in Congress

Members serving today, with their record in the current Congress (party-unity votes cast with their caucus, roll calls missed). Not a grade.

Catskill, New York is represented in the 119th Congress by these members.

House

Josh RileyD-NY-19 · 100% of residentsWith party 89%Missed 1.8%

Senate

Explore Congress The 2026 races

County

A city can lie in several counties. Some indicators are published for counties only: the page marks them.

Greene County75100% of residents

Other cities and towns in Greene County

Largest first.

Similar cities and towns

Closest indicator profiles across the country (no model: score distances).

Data and sources

Latest published value of each indicator; periods differ by source. Values flagged by their publisher are marked.

PLACES: Local Data for Better HealthCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · release 2025
Local Area Unemployment StatisticsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · release 2025
American Community Survey 5-Year EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2017-2024
Building Permits SurveyU.S. Census Bureau · release 2026-08
Population Estimates ProgramU.S. Census Bureau · release 2025
Small Area Health Insurance EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
Small Area Income and Poverty EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
County Health Rankings & RoadmapsUniversity of Wisconsin Population Health Institute · release 2022-2025+2026-03-supplement

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