Village · Clinton County, New York

Champlain, New York

Champlain is a village in Clinton County, New York, part of the Plattsburgh, NY metro area. It has 1,270 residents. Champlain, New York has a quality-of-life score of 48 out of 100 (moderate), ranking #8,197 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within New York it ranks #726 of 859 cities and towns. It ranks best on violent crime rate (low), public EV charging ports (high) and hot days (low). It ranks worst on new business applications (low), comfortable days (low) and average commute time (high).

48Moderate

Quality-of-life score: #8,197 of 15,651 cities and towns
New York: #726 of 859 in NY
Population: 1,270 (2020-2024)
Land area: 1 mi²
Density: 871.5 /mi²
FIPS code: 3613739

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 72 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Scores by category

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

Safety96#685/15,637
Economy32#10,569/15,631
Housing24#11,457/14,977
Health55#7,027/15,609
Healthcare56#6,835/15,650
Environment81#2,966/15,453
Education51#7,646/15,649
Infrastructure32#10,699/15,650
Community26#11,624/15,651
Leisure & amenities32#10,599/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Champlain, New York ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Clinton 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

Violent crime rate · low47 /100k
98/100New York 368 /100kUnited States 328 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationClinton County value
Public EV charging ports · high20.0 /10k
96/100New York 10.8 /10kUnited States 7.6 /10kOct 2026U.S. Department of EnergyClinton County value
Hot days · low2 days
94/100New York 3 daysUnited States 42 days2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationClinton County value
Students per teacher · low11.1×
93/100New York 12.0×United States 15.2×2024National Center for Education StatisticsClinton County value
Fine particulate matter (PM2.5) · low5.7 µg/m³
93/100New York 7.2 µg/m³United States 8.0 µg/m³2022Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyClinton County value
Mammography screening · high55.0%
91/100New York 46.0%United States 46.0%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteClinton County value

Weaknesses

New business applications · low6.9 /1k
2/100New York 15.1 /1kUnited States 16.6 /1k2025U.S. Census BureauClinton County value
Comfortable days · low21.8%
2/100New York 22.7%United States 26.8%2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationClinton County value
Average commute time · high19.9 min
7/100New York 32.6 minUnited States 26.4 min2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B08013
Effective property tax rate · high1.98%
8/100New York 1.30%United States 0.94%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25090
Hospital quality rating · low2.0
9/100New York 2.8United States 3.2Jul 2026Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesClinton County value
Primary care shortage · high17.0
9/100New York 5.7United States 6.2Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationClinton County value

Trends

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

PopulationRising
1,002 (2015-2019) → 1,270 (2020-2024)
+27%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Median household incomeImproving
$34,276 (2015-2019) → $65,000 (2020-2024)
+90%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
74.3% (2015-2019) → 90.4% (2020-2024)
+16 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Home price to income ratioImproving
3.6× (2015-2019) → 1.9× (2020-2024)
−48%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
Poverty rateImproving
20.5% (2015-2019) → 12.5% (2020-2024)
−8.1 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 12.3% → 12.1%
Rent-burdened householdsImproving
65.6% (2015-2019) → 58.6% (2020-2024)
−6.9 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%

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, Champlain, New York improved on 3 of 12 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 9 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.

Improved3

Price / income−1.7×3.6× → 1.9×
Household income+90%$34,276 → $65,000
Broadband+16 points74.3% → 90.4%

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 12 measures

Change of every measure of Champlain, New York between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	18.9 min2015-2019	19.9 min2020-2024	+1.0 min	Within the margin of error	37%
Bachelor's degree or higher	23.3%2015-2019	27.4%2020-2024	+4 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Broadband subscriptions	74.3%2015-2019	90.4%2020-2024	+16 points	Improved	83%
Effective property tax rate	2.22%2015-2019	1.98%2020-2024	−0.2 points	Within the margin of error	65%
High school diploma or higher	78.6%2015-2019	85.3%2020-2024	+6.7 points	Within the margin of error	89%
Home price to income ratio	3.6×2015-2019	1.9×2020-2024	−1.7×	Improved	99%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4532015-2019	0.4522020-2024	−0.001	Within the margin of error	52%
Median household income	$34,2762015-2019	$65,0002020-2024	+90%	Improved	97%
Poverty rate	20.5%2015-2019	12.5%2020-2024	−8.1 points	Within the margin of error	89%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent as share of income	34.7%2015-2019	31.9%2020-2024	−2.8 points	Within the margin of error	73%
Rent-burdened households	65.6%2015-2019	58.6%2020-2024	−6.9 points	Within the margin of error	76%

“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 Champlain, New York five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Champlain, 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, Champlain, New York itself moved +15.4 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

1,270 residents (±370)

Men
Women

80 and over†
70–79†
60–69†

Income

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

Household income

544 households (±137)

Champlain, New York
New York share

Under $25k19%†102
$25k–50k24%†130
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

544 households (±137)

Champlain, New York
New York share

Own59%†321
Rent41%†223

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: Own (+17.8 points).

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

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Getting to work

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

How people get to work

609 workers (±214)

Champlain, New York
New York share

Drive alone79%†484
Carpool7.1%†43
Public transit

Jobs and pay

What the largest occupations here pay, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes pay by metro area, not by county or city. The metro area page lists its largest occupations and lets you look up any job.

Pay in the Plattsburgh, NY

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 Clinton County, the county holding most of Champlain's residents.

Clinton County has 1,701 employer establishments, 218 for every 10,000 residents (0.88× the US rate of 248; 0.80× New York's), with 27,188 paid employees at an average annual pay of $48,107. The Census Bureau also counts 4,515 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 1,701; 4,515 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 218; US 248 · New York 274
Paid employees: 27,188
Average annual pay: $48,107; US $68,342

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

Restaurants and other eating places	139	17.8	0.97×About typical	2,152	$24,790	20
Ambulatory health care services	108	13.9	0.67×Fewer than typical	1,491	$61,351	217
Specialty trade contractors	96	12.3	0.80×Fewer than typical	497	$68,622	308
Construction of buildings	63	8.1	1.07×About typical	432	$69,463	144
Full-service restaurants	62	8	1.04×About typical	1,071	$26,959	10
Lessors of real estate	57	7.3	0.59×Fewer than typical	191	$47,581	432
Limited-service restaurants	53	6.8	0.85×About typical	947	$22,086	7
Gasoline stations	50	6.4	1.98×More than typical	480	$27,925	—
Truck transportation	40	5.1	1.02×About typical	326	$53,221	41
Building material and supplies dealers (hardware, home centers)	37	4.7	2.88×More than typical	481	$37,971	3
Services to buildings and dwellings	37	4.7	0.70×Fewer than typical	126	$31,627	290
Offices of physicians	36	4.6	0.71×Fewer than typical	372	$83,704	31

Rank places for an industry Open Clinton County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 77,905 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 $218.8K of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Champlain, New York: $172 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $218.8K; −65% vs FY2025
Per resident: $172; US $1,994
Sole-source: 40%; 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

Public Buildings Service$142.8K65%
U.S. Customs and Border Protection$75.9K35%

Top recipients

ACTION FACILITIES MANAGEMENT INC$86.4K39%
R. HOGAN EXCAVATING, LLC$33.3K15%
ELECTRIPRO, INC.$28.9K13%
MIAMI WIIPICA, LLC$27.8K13%
UNAMI HWH JOINT VENTURES, LLC$17.8K8.1%

Spending by fiscal year

179.8KFY2017
136.8KFY2018
222.7KFY2019
143.5KFY2020
183.3KFY2021
348.6KFY2022
1.2MFY2023
1.1M

Top industries (NAICS)

Facilities support services · 5612$86.4K39%
Nonresidential building construction · 2362$51K23%
Services to buildings and dwellings · 5617$33.3K15%
Investigation and security services · 5616$28.9K13%
Other heavy and civil engineering construction · 2379$17.8K8.1%
Computer systems design and related services · 5415

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 Champlain, New York, so they do not add up across cities.

Champlain, New York's figures are part of those of Clinton County, NY ($11.5M in FY2026), never added to them: 1.9% of that total.

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

See federal money in Clinton 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.

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

House

Elise M. StefanikR-NY-21 · 100% of residentsWith party 97%Missed 16.3%

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.

Clinton County75100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Plattsburgh, NY76

Other cities and towns in Clinton 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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