Village · Yates County, New York

Dundee, New York

Dundee is a village in Yates County, New York. It has 2,001 residents. Dundee, New York has a quality-of-life score of 40 out of 100 (moderate), ranking #9,374 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within New York it ranks #782 of 859 cities and towns. It ranks best on students per teacher (low), mammography screening (high) and grocery stores (high). It ranks worst on new business applications (low), access to exercise opportunities (low) and comfortable days (low).

40Moderate

Quality-of-life score: #9,374 of 15,651 cities and towns
New York: #782 of 859 in NY
Population: 2,001 (2020-2024)
Land area: 1 mi²
Density: 1,815.8 /mi²
FIPS code: 3621050

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 71 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.

Safety83#2,716/15,637
Economy14#13,501/15,631
Housing47#7,893/14,977
Health43#8,821/15,609
Healthcare60#6,307/15,650
Environment70#4,642/15,453
Education18#12,780/15,649
Infrastructure9#14,183/15,650
Community36#9,960/15,651
Leisure & amenities72#4,336/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Dundee, New York ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Yates 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 · low8.6×
100/100New York 12.0×United States 15.2×2024National Center for Education StatisticsYates County value
Mammography screening · high57.0%
96/100New York 46.0%United States 46.0%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteYates County value
Grocery stores · high3.3 /10k
96/100New York 3.4 /10kUnited States 1.7 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsYates County value
Violent crime rate · low65 /100k
95/100New York 368 /100kUnited States 328 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationYates County value
Job growth · high3.0%
94/100New York -0.3%United States 0.1%2026 Q1U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsProvisional dataYates County value
Public libraries · high2.0 /10k
92/100New York 0.5 /10kUnited States 0.5 /10k2024Institute of Museum and Library ServicesYates County value

Weaknesses

New business applications · low7.4 /1k
4/100New York 15.1 /1kUnited States 16.6 /1k2025U.S. Census BureauYates County value
Access to exercise opportunities · low44.5%
8/100New York 93.1%United States 84.5%2022 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteYates County value
Comfortable days · low23.0%
8/100New York 22.7%United States 26.8%2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationYates County value
Adult smoking · high20.9%
9/100New York 14.0%United States 16.1%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate
Bachelor's degree or higher · low11.6%
10/100New York 40.2%United States 35.7%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B15003
Median household income · low$44,583
10/100New York $85,768United States $81,6042020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B19013

Trends

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

PopulationRising
1,653 (2015-2019) → 2,001 (2020-2024)
+21%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Child poverty rateImproving
53.9% (2015-2019) → 29.5% (2020-2024)
−24 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Poverty rateImproving
31.4% (2015-2019) → 21.7% (2020-2024)
−9.7 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 12.3% → 12.1%
High school diploma or higherWorsening
91.5% (2015-2019) → 85.6% (2020-2024)
−5.9 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 88.0% → 89.6%
Median household incomeImproving
$37,163 (2015-2019) → $44,583 (2020-2024)
+20%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604
Income inequality (Gini index)Improving
0.516 (2015-2019) → 0.419 (2020-2024)
−19%5 yearsCensus table B19083US 0.482 → 0.483

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, Dundee, New York improved on 2 of 14 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 12 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

Property tax−1.3 points2.39% → 1.09%
Child poverty−24 points53.9% → 29.5%

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 14 measures

Change of every measure of Dundee, New York between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	22.1 min2015-2019	23.6 min2020-2024	+1.5 min	Within the margin of error	32%
Bachelor's degree or higher	14.7%2015-2019	11.6%2020-2024	−3.1 points	Within the margin of error	12%
Broadband subscriptions	85.4%2015-2019	85.1%2020-2024	−0.3 points	Within the margin of error	7%
Child poverty rate	53.9%2015-2019	29.5%2020-2024	−24 points	Improved	96%
Effective property tax rate	2.39%2015-2019	1.09%2020-2024	−1.3 points	Improved	100%
High school diploma or higher	91.5%2015-2019	85.6%2020-2024	−5.9 points	Within the margin of error	4%
Home price to income ratio	2.3×2015-2019	2.2×2020-2024	−0.1×	Within the margin of error	85%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.5162015-2019	0.4192020-2024	−0.096	Within the margin of error	95%
Median household income	$37,1632015-2019	$44,5832020-2024	+20%	Within the margin of error	33%
Poverty rate	31.4%2015-2019	21.7%2020-2024	−9.7 points	Within the margin of error	92%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent as share of income	29.2%2015-2019	29.8%2020-2024	+0.6 points	Within the margin of error	50%
Rent-burdened households	46.3%2015-2019	49.2%2020-2024	+2.9 points	Within the margin of error	45%
Unemployment rate	3.5%2015-2019	3.4%2020-2024	−0.2 points	Within the margin of error	53%

“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 Dundee, New York five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Dundee, 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, Dundee, New York itself moved −1.3 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

2,001 residents (±248)

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

781 households (±136)

Dundee, New York
New York share

Under $25k30%†232
$25k–50k23%†182
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

781 households (±136)

Dundee, New York
New York share

Own57%444
Rent43%337

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

802 workers (±136)

Dundee, New York
New York share

Drive alone77%620
Carpool7.2%†58
Public transit0.0%0

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 Yates County, the county holding most of Dundee's residents.

Yates County has 542 employer establishments, 222 for every 10,000 residents (0.90× the US rate of 248; 0.81× New York's), with 5,133 paid employees at an average annual pay of $44,694. The Census Bureau also counts 2,196 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 542; 2,196 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 222; US 248 · New York 274
Paid employees: 5,133
Average annual pay: $44,694; US $68,342

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

Specialty trade contractors	51	20.9	1.35×More than typical	269	$57,331	246
Construction of buildings	35	14.4	1.90×More than typical	218	$49,573	97
Restaurants and other eating places	34	14	0.76×Fewer than typical	380	$26,758	8
Services to buildings and dwellings	28	11.5	1.70×More than typical	110	$43,364	130
Lessors of real estate	27	11.1	0.90×About typical	76	$31,829	161
Religious organizations	20	8.2	1.48×More than typical	76	$22,579	—
Ambulatory health care services	19	7.8	0.37×Fewer than typical	209	$60,785	64
Full-service restaurants	19	7.8	1.02×About typical	187	$26,364	—
Landscaping services	17	7	1.99×More than typical	23	$57,217	42
Other specialty trade contractors	14	5.7	2.29×More than typical	68	$59,368	83
Foundation, structure and building exterior contractors	13	5.3	1.69×More than typical	63	$60,397	35
Building equipment contractors	12	4.9	0.82×About typical	99	$54,798	53

Rank places for an industry Open Yates County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 24,367 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 Dundee, 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

9.2FY2017
8.7FY2018

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

Dundee, New York's figures are part of those of Yates County, NY ($65.3K 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: Dundee is mostly in Yates County.

See federal money in Yates 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.

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

House

Claudia TenneyR-NY-24 · 100% of residentsWith party 99%Missed 0.7%

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.

Yates County63100% of residents

Other cities and towns in Yates 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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