Village · Broome County, New York

Deposit, New York

Deposit is a village in Broome County, New York, part of the Binghamton, NY metro area. It has 1,424 residents. Deposit, New York has a quality-of-life score of 32 out of 100 (low), ranking #10,715 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within New York it ranks #831 of 859 cities and towns. It ranks best on drought exposure (low), hot days (low) and firearm deaths (low). It ranks worst on effective property tax rate (high), mental health care shortage (high) and income inequality (Gini index) (high).

32Low

Quality-of-life score: #10,715 of 15,651 cities and towns
New York: #831 of 859 in NY
Population: 1,424 (2020-2024)
Land area: 1 mi²
Density: 1,127.6 /mi²
FIPS code: 3620346

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.

Safety60#6,290/15,637
Economy17#12,991/15,631
Housing19#12,125/14,977
Health52#7,521/15,609
Healthcare37#9,838/15,650
Environment75#3,819/15,453
Education17#12,940/15,649
Infrastructure20#12,491/15,650
Community39#9,587/15,651
Leisure & amenities68#4,973/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Drought exposure · low0%
98/100New York 15%United States 43%Oct 2025–Sep 2026National Drought Mitigation Center (University of Nebraska–Lincoln), USDA and NOAABroome County value
Hot days · low2 days
93/100New York 3 daysUnited States 42 days2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationBroome County value
Firearm deaths · low5.1 /100k
89/100New York 4.2 /100kUnited States 12.1 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataBroome County value
Traffic deaths · low6.2 /100k
88/100New York 5.6 /100kUnited States 12.3 /100k2020-2024National Highway Traffic Safety AdministrationProvisional dataBroome County value
Public EV charging ports · high11.8 /10k
86/100New York 10.8 /10kUnited States 7.6 /10kOct 2026U.S. Department of EnergyBroome County value
Fine particulate matter (PM2.5) · low6.6 µg/m³
81/100New York 7.2 µg/m³United States 8.0 µg/m³2022Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyBroome County value

Weaknesses

Effective property tax rate · high2.64%
1/100New York 1.30%United States 0.94%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25090
Mental health care shortage · high19.0
4/100New York 4.8United States 9.9Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationBroome County value
Income inequality (Gini index) · high0.495
5/100New York 0.517United States 0.4832020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B19083
Comfortable days · low22.6%
5/100New York 22.7%United States 26.8%2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationBroome County value
Poverty rate · high27.8%
6/100New York 14.0%United States 12.1%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B17001
Child poverty rate · high59.0%
6/100New York 17.9%United States 15.5%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B17001

Trends

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

PopulationFalling
1,625 (2015-2019) → 1,424 (2020-2024)
−12%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Child poverty rateWorsening
35.6% (2015-2019) → 59.0% (2020-2024)
+23 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
72.2% (2015-2019) → 91.8% (2020-2024)
+20 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
High school diploma or higherImproving
84.9% (2015-2019) → 93.6% (2020-2024)
+8.7 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 88.0% → 89.6%
Median household incomeImproving
$33,571 (2015-2019) → $48,214 (2020-2024)
+44%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604
Rent-burdened householdsImproving
69.2% (2015-2019) → 63.4% (2020-2024)
−5.8 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, Deposit, New York improved on 2 of 14 measures with a comparison and declined on 1. 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.

Improved2

Broadband+20 points72.2% → 91.8%
Household income+44%$33,571 → $48,214

Declined1

Child poverty+23 points35.6% → 59.0%

All 14 measures

Change of every measure of Deposit, New York between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	22.2 min2015-2019	21.5 min2020-2024	−0.8 min	Within the margin of error	57%
Bachelor's degree or higher	9.9%2015-2019	14.1%2020-2024	+4.1 points	Within the margin of error	61%
Broadband subscriptions	72.2%2015-2019	91.8%2020-2024	+20 points	Improved	89%
Child poverty rate	35.6%2015-2019	59.0%2020-2024	+23 points	Declined	3%
Effective property tax rate	2.60%2015-2019	2.64%2020-2024	+0 points	Within the margin of error	10%
High school diploma or higher	84.9%2015-2019	93.6%2020-2024	+8.7 points	Within the margin of error	93%
Home price to income ratio	2.5×2015-2019	2.5×2020-2024	−0.1×	Within the margin of error	82%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4702015-2019	0.4952020-2024	+0.025	Within the margin of error	30%
Median household income	$33,5712015-2019	$48,2142020-2024	+44%	Improved	79%
Poverty rate	24.1%2015-2019	27.8%2020-2024	+3.7 points	Within the margin of error	17%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent as share of income	35.0%2015-2019	34.2%2020-2024	−0.8 points	Within the margin of error	61%
Rent-burdened households	69.2%2015-2019	63.4%2020-2024	−5.8 points	Within the margin of error	74%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	6.0%2015-2019	6.7%2020-2024	+0.8 points	Within the margin of error	37%

“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 Deposit, New York five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Deposit, 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, Deposit, New York itself moved +10.7 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

1,424 residents (±237)

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

682 households (±105)

Deposit, New York
New York share

Under $25k34%233
$25k–50k18%†123
$50k–75k12%†85

Homes

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

Owners and renters

682 households (±105)

Deposit, New York
New York share

Own63%432
Rent37%250

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

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Getting to work

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

How people get to work

592 workers (±149)

Deposit, New York
New York share

Drive alone63%†372
Carpool7.1%†42
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 Binghamton, 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 Broome County, the county holding most of Deposit's residents.

Broome County has 4,001 employer establishments, 204 for every 10,000 residents (0.82× the US rate of 248; 0.75× New York's), with 68,190 paid employees at an average annual pay of $53,545. The Census Bureau also counts 11,684 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 4,001; 11,684 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 204; US 248 · New York 274
Paid employees: 68,190
Average annual pay: $53,545; US $68,342

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

Restaurants and other eating places	370	18.9	1.03×About typical	6,250	$21,606	55
Ambulatory health care services	319	16.3	0.78×Fewer than typical	5,769	$82,246	579
Specialty trade contractors	240	12.2	0.79×Fewer than typical	2,170	$78,868	570
Full-service restaurants	161	8.2	1.07×About typical	2,903	$23,583	26
Limited-service restaurants	145	7.4	0.92×About typical	2,747	$18,333	25
Offices of physicians	139	7.1	1.10×About typical	2,703	$111,974	92
Religious organizations	136	6.9	1.25×More than typical	794	$19,494	—
Construction of buildings	133	6.8	0.90×About typical	738	$62,136	269
Automotive repair and maintenance	116	5.9	1.18×About typical	644	$42,753	123
Lessors of real estate	107	5.5	0.44×Fewer than typical	394	$42,226	1,237
Services to buildings and dwellings	101	5.2	0.76×Fewer than typical	1,558	$48,874	453
Personal care services	98	5	1.05×About typical	387	$28,736	572

Rank places for an industry Open Broome County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 195,934 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 Deposit, 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

137.2FY2021

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

Deposit, New York's figures are part of those of Broome County, NY and Delaware County, NY ($40.9M 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: Deposit is mostly in Broome County.

See federal money in Broome 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.

Deposit, 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.

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Binghamton, NY77

Other cities and towns in Broome 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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