Census-designated place · Saratoga County, New York

Country Knolls, New York

Country Knolls is a census-designated place in Saratoga County, New York, part of the Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY metro area. It has 5,445 residents. Country Knolls, New York has a quality-of-life score of 99 out of 100 (very high), ranking #216 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within New York it ranks #37 of 859 cities and towns. It ranks best on rent as share of income (low), public EV charging ports (high) and poor or fair health (low). It ranks worst on time spent in the emergency room (high), comfortable days (low) and job growth (low).

99Very high

Quality-of-life score: #216 of 15,651 cities and towns
New York: #37 of 859 in NY
Population: 5,445 (2020-2024)
Land area: 3 mi²
Density: 1,590.0 /mi²
FIPS code: 3618542

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 73 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.

Safety97#403/15,637
Economy94#904/15,631
Housing65#5,308/14,977
Health95#826/15,609
Healthcare81#2,901/15,650
Environment97#458/15,453
Education86#2,128/15,649
Infrastructure94#932/15,650
Community74#4,112/15,651
Leisure & amenities63#5,863/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Rent as share of income · low12.0%
100/100New York 31.2%United States 30.6%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25071
Public EV charging ports · high31.7 /10k
99/100New York 10.8 /10kUnited States 7.6 /10kOct 2026U.S. Department of EnergySaratoga County value
Poor or fair health · low9.7%
99/100New York 16.8%United States 19.9%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate
Poverty rate · low1.4%
98/100New York 14.0%United States 12.1%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B17001
Food insecurity · low6.5%
98/100New York 18.0%United States 15.6%2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate
Lack of reliable transportation · low4.5%
97/100New York 9.1%United States 8.3%2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate

Weaknesses

Time spent in the emergency room · high296 min
0/100New York 202 minUnited States 170 minOct 2024–Sep 2025Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesSaratoga County value
Comfortable days · low23.4%
11/100New York 22.7%United States 26.8%2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationSaratoga County value
Job growth · low-1.8%
15/100New York -0.3%United States 0.1%2026 Q1U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsProvisional dataSaratoga County value
Grocery stores · low1.0 /10k
16/100New York 3.4 /10kUnited States 1.7 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsSaratoga County value
New business applications · low9.4 /1k
19/100New York 15.1 /1kUnited States 16.6 /1k2025U.S. Census BureauSaratoga County value
Effective property tax rate · high1.41%
25/100New York 1.30%United States 0.94%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25090

Trends

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

PopulationRising
2,119 (2015-2019) → 5,445 (2020-2024)
+157%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Rent-burdened householdsImproving
100.0% (2016-2020) → 0.0% (2020-2024)
−100 pts4 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.1% → 51.1%
Rent as share of incomeImproving
30.1% (2017-2021) → 12.0% (2020-2024)
−18 pts3 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%
Bachelor's degree or higherWorsening
69.3% (2015-2019) → 58.8% (2020-2024)
−10 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 32.1% → 35.7%
Median household incomeImproving
$116,875 (2015-2019) → $143,036 (2020-2024)
+22%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604
Child poverty rateImproving
4.3% (2015-2019) → 0.0% (2020-2024)
−4.3 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%

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, Country Knolls, New York improved on 0 of 8 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 8 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.

Improved0

No measure improved by more than its margin of error.

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 8 measures

Change of every measure of Country Knolls, New York between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	24.8 min2015-2019	21.1 min2020-2024	−3.7 min	Within the margin of error	84%
Bachelor's degree or higher	69.3%2015-2019	58.8%2020-2024	−10 points	Within the margin of error	2%
Broadband subscriptions	96.4%2015-2019	98.4%2020-2024	+1.9 points	Within the margin of error	15%
Effective property tax rate	1.71%2015-2019	1.41%2020-2024	−0.3 points	Within the margin of error	74%
High school diploma or higher	99.6%2015-2019	97.7%2020-2024	−1.9 points	Within the margin of error	16%
Home price to income ratio	2.5×2015-2019	2.7×2020-2024	+0.2×	Within the margin of error	67%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4062015-2019	0.3542020-2024	−0.052	Within the margin of error	84%
Median household income	$116,8752015-2019	$143,0362020-2024	+22%	Within the margin of error	38%

“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 Country Knolls, New York five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Country Knolls, 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, Country Knolls, New York itself moved +5.3 points in standing on average over the same 8 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

5,445 residents (±500)

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

2,109 households (±247)

Country Knolls, New York
New York share

Under $25k4.1%†86
$25k–50k7.0%†148
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

2,109 households (±247)

Country Knolls, New York
New York share

Own97%2,055
Rent2.6%†54

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

† 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

2,711 workers (±306)

Country Knolls, New York
New York share

Drive alone73%1,977
Carpool5.3%†144
Public transit0.0%0

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 Albany-Schenectady-Troy, 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 Saratoga County, the county holding most of Country Knolls's residents.

Saratoga County has 5,488 employer establishments, 230 for every 10,000 residents (0.93× the US rate of 248; 0.84× New York's), with 78,232 paid employees at an average annual pay of $62,436. The Census Bureau also counts 19,251 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 5,488; 19,251 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 230; US 248 · New York 274
Paid employees: 78,232
Average annual pay: $62,436; US $68,342

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

Restaurants and other eating places	448	18.8	1.02×About typical	7,596	$26,281	46
Specialty trade contractors	443	18.6	1.20×About typical	3,022	$85,358	1,086
Ambulatory health care services	422	17.7	0.85×About typical	5,002	$69,256	968
Construction of buildings	250	10.5	1.39×More than typical	1,403	$75,520	457
Lessors of real estate	234	9.8	0.80×Fewer than typical	1,201	$52,888	2,310
Full-service restaurants	222	9.3	1.21×About typical	4,266	$29,976	17
Services to buildings and dwellings	199	8.3	1.24×About typical	1,076	$49,751	715
Limited-service restaurants	163	6.8	0.85×About typical	2,465	$20,763	23
Management, scientific and technical consulting	139	5.8	0.87×About typical	2,100	$110,705	925
Offices of other health practitioners	136	5.7	0.94×About typical	784	$52,514	573
Offices of physicians	132	5.5	0.85×About typical	1,830	$83,824	186
Personal care services	131	5.5	1.15×About typical	555	$28,315	788

Rank places for an industry Open Saratoga County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 238,699 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 $588K of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Country Knolls, New York: $108 per resident (US $2,007).

Obligations: $588K; +5.9% vs FY2025
Per resident: $108; US $2,007
Sole-source: 2.1%; US 30%
Single offer: 36%; US 8.7%

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

Top buying agencies

Department of State$202.7K34%
Department of the Air Force$158.9K27%
Missile Defense Agency$59.8K10%
Immediate Office of the Secretary of Transportation$51.5K8.8%
Department of the Army$34.6K5.9%
Department of the Navy$30.1K5.1%
Defense Health Agency$19.9K3.4%
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency$13.8K2.4%

Top recipients

KITWARE INC$372.7K63%
C W WORLDWIDE MEETINGS INC$202.7K34%
MJ ENGINEERING, ARCHITECTURE, LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE, AND LAND SURVEYING P.C.$5,7821.0%
QNTFI, INC.$2,5850.4%
COMMAND AND CONTROL SOLUTIONS CORP$2,2840.4%

Spending by fiscal year

341.6KFY2017
377.6KFY2018
442.4KFY2019
363.6KFY2020
448.8KFY2021
568.3KFY2022
499.8KFY2023
550.5K

Top industries (NAICS)

Scientific research and development services · 5417$363.8K62%
Travel arrangement and reservation services · 5615$202.7K34%
Computer systems design and related services · 5415$11.5K2.0%
Architectural, engineering, and related services · 5413$5,7811.0%
Medical equipment and supplies manufacturing · 3391$2,2840.4%

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 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 Country Knolls, New York, so they do not add up across cities.

Country Knolls, New York's figures are part of those of Saratoga County, NY ($61.3M in FY2026), never added to them: 1.0% of that total.

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

See federal money in Saratoga 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.

Country Knolls, New York is split between congressional districts: each representative is shown with the share of its residents in their district (current boundaries).

House

Senate

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County

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

Saratoga County99100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY92

Other cities and towns in Saratoga 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
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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Scores by category

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