Scores by category

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

Safety96#685/15,637
Economy27#11,420/15,631
Housing26#11,154/14,977
Health63#5,737/15,609
Healthcare39#9,525/15,650
Environment70#4,647/15,453
Education73#4,303/15,649
Infrastructure28#11,193/15,650
Community43#8,939/15,651
Leisure & amenities82#2,831/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Students per teacher · low9.8×
98/100New York 12.0×United States 15.2×2024National Center for Education StatisticsDelaware County value
Hot days · low1 days
98/100New York 3 daysUnited States 42 days2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationDelaware County value
Drought exposure · low0%
98/100New York 15%United States 43%Oct 2025–Sep 2026National Drought Mitigation Center (University of Nebraska–Lincoln), USDA and NOAADelaware County value
Violent crime rate · low48 /100k
98/100New York 368 /100kUnited States 328 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationDelaware County value
Property crime rate · low290 /100k
97/100New York 1,575 /100kUnited States 1,535 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationDelaware County value
Job growth · high3.5%
95/100New York -0.3%United States 0.1%2026 Q1U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsProvisional dataDelaware County value

Weaknesses

Hospital quality rating · low1.0
1/100New York 2.8United States 3.2Jul 2026Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesDelaware County value
Income inequality (Gini index) · high0.514
3/100New York 0.517United States 0.4832020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B19083
Child care cost burden · high43.7%
3/100New York 37.7%United States 27.9%2023 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteDelaware County value
Dentists · low20 /100k
5/100New York 84 /100kUnited States 75 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteDelaware County value
Comfortable days · low22.7%
6/100New York 22.7%United States 26.8%2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationDelaware County value
Dental care shortage · high18.0
6/100New York 3.7United States 5.7Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationDelaware County value

Trends

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

Rent-burdened householdsImproving
63.4% (2015-2019) → 45.0% (2020-2024)
−18 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Child poverty rateImproving
30.1% (2015-2019) → 16.4% (2020-2024)
−14 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Poverty rateImproving
24.7% (2015-2019) → 17.4% (2020-2024)
−7.3 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 12.3% → 12.1%
Rent as share of incomeImproving
33.8% (2015-2019) → 27.6% (2020-2024)
−6.2 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%
Median household incomeImproving
$47,500 (2015-2019) → $57,586 (2020-2024)
+21%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604
Average commute timeImproving
16.4 min (2015-2019) → 13.3 min (2020-2024)
−19%5 yearsCensus table B08013US 26.9 min → 26.4 min

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, Delhi, New York improved on 0 of 11 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 11 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 11 measures

Change of every measure of Delhi, New York between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	16.4 min2015-2019	13.3 min2020-2024	−3.0 min	Within the margin of error	79%
Bachelor's degree or higher	41.9%2015-2019	41.9%2020-2024	+0 points	Within the margin of error	27%
Broadband subscriptions	81.7%2015-2019	84.3%2020-2024	+2.6 points	Within the margin of error	18%
Effective property tax rate	1.71%2015-2019	1.78%2020-2024	+0.1 points	Within the margin of error	9%
High school diploma or higher	93.2%2015-2019	92.8%2020-2024	−0.4 points	Within the margin of error	28%
Home price to income ratio	3.4×2015-2019	3.4×2020-2024	+0.0×	Within the margin of error	79%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4852015-2019	0.5142020-2024	+0.028	Within the margin of error	28%
Median household income	$47,5002015-2019	$57,5862020-2024	+21%	Within the margin of error	35%
Poverty rate	24.7%2015-2019	17.4%2020-2024	−7.3 points	Within the margin of error	88%
Rent as share of income	33.8%2015-2019	27.6%2020-2024	−6.2 points	Within the margin of error	86%
Rent-burdened households	63.4%2015-2019	45.0%2020-2024	−18 points	Within the margin of error	92%

“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 Delhi, New York five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Delhi, 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, Delhi, New York itself moved +4.3 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

3,136 residents (±254)

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: 10–19 women (+6.3 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

3,136 residents (±254)

Delhi, New York
New York share

White85%2,673
Black1.8%†57
Hispanic or Latino7.7%†242

Education

1,214 residents (±176)

Delhi, New York
New York share

No high school diploma7.2%†88
High school or GED21%†254
Some college14%†

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

802 households (±132)

Delhi, New York
New York share

Under $25k30%†243
$25k–50k13%†104
$50k–75k21%†165
$75k–100k9.5%†76
$100k–150k12%†94
$150k–200k7.5%†60
$200k or more7.5%†60

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: $200k or more (+5.9 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

802 households (±132)

Delhi, New York
New York share

Own46%371
Rent54%431

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: Own (−9.6 points).

Table view

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

Rent paid

407 households (±107)

Delhi, New York
New York share

Under $75045%†183
$750–1,00022%†90
$1,000–1,50025%†100

Home values

371 homes (±73)

Delhi, New York
New York share

Under $150k23%†84
$150k–250k48%†177
$250k–400k20%†75

Age of homes

946 homes (±145)

Delhi, New York
New York share

2010 or later1.3%†12
2000–20093.7%†35
1980–199916%†148

Size of homes

946 homes (±145)

Delhi, New York
New York share

Studio2.3%†22
1 bedroom22%†209
2 bedrooms30%286

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

1,158 workers (±240)

Delhi, New York
New York share

Drive alone52%597
Carpool4.6%†53
Public transit0.6%†7
Walk22%†260
Bike2.3%†27
Work from home18%†206
Other0.7%†8

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.

Table view

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

Time to get to work

952 workers (±206)

Delhi, New York
New York share

Under 15 min76%724
15–29 min11%†109
30–44 min7.6%†72

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 Delaware County, the county holding most of Delhi's residents.

Delaware County has 1,114 employer establishments, 250 for every 10,000 residents (1.01× the US rate of 248; 0.91× New York's), with 12,025 paid employees at an average annual pay of $65,461. The Census Bureau also counts 3,939 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 1,114; 3,939 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 250; US 248 · New York 274
Paid employees: 12,025
Average annual pay: $65,461; US $68,342

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

Restaurants and other eating places	93	20.9	1.14×About typical	850	$21,846	21
Specialty trade contractors	69	15.5	1.00×About typical	217	$69,115	383
Ambulatory health care services	49	11	0.53×Fewer than typical	297	$80,337	145
Full-service restaurants	48	10.8	1.40×More than typical	392	$22,929	10
Motion picture and video industries	48	10.8	14.2×More than typical	1,170	$28,986	42
Automotive repair and maintenance	36	8.1	1.61×More than typical	126	$48,079	48
Lessors of real estate	35	7.9	0.64×Fewer than typical	101	$38,317	427
Religious organizations	34	7.6	1.38×More than typical	99	$13,869	—
Construction of buildings	30	6.7	0.89×About typical	138	$59,152	163
Gasoline stations	30	6.7	2.08×More than typical	231	$23,416	—
Limited-service restaurants	27	6.1	0.76×Fewer than typical	405	$20,040	5
Services to buildings and dwellings	26	5.8	0.87×About typical	24	$62,458	252

Rank places for an industry Open Delaware County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 44,533 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 $0 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Delhi, New York: $0 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $0
Per resident: $0; US $1,994
Sole-source: —; US 30%
Single offer: —; 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

545.7FY2017
14.6FY2019
1.8KFY2020

What was bought

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

Delhi, New York's figures are part of those of Delaware County, NY ($2.9M in FY2026), never added to them: 0.0% of that total.

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

See federal money in Delaware 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.

Delhi, 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.

Delaware County67100% of residents

Other cities and towns in Delaware 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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