Census-designated place · Wayne County, New York

Gananda, New York

Gananda is a census-designated place in Wayne County, New York, part of the Rochester, NY metro area. It has 6,273 residents. Gananda, New York has a quality-of-life score of 71 out of 100 (high), ranking #4,576 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within New York it ranks #498 of 859 cities and towns. It ranks best on students per teacher (low), uninsured residents (under 65) (low) and hot days (low). It ranks worst on effective property tax rate (high), new business applications (low) and rent as share of income (high).

71High

Quality-of-life score: #4,576 of 15,651 cities and towns
New York: #498 of 859 in NY
Population: 6,273 (2020-2024)
Land area: 4 mi²
Density: 1,723.8 /mi²
FIPS code: 3628138

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.

Safety82#2,887/15,637
Economy78#3,415/15,631
Housing15#12,719/14,977
Health80#3,191/15,609
Healthcare25#11,711/15,650
Environment96#573/15,453
Education82#2,840/15,649
Infrastructure68#5,007/15,650
Community48#8,098/15,651
Leisure & amenities40#9,445/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Gananda, New York ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Wayne 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 · low10.2×
97/100New York 12.0×United States 15.2×2024National Center for Education StatisticsWayne County value
Uninsured residents (under 65) · low1.4%
95/100New York 5.9%United States 9.8%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B27010High uncertainty
Hot days · low3 days
91/100New York 3 daysUnited States 42 days2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationWayne County value
Median Air Quality Index · low33
91/100New York 402025U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyWayne County value
Unemployment rate · low1.2%
90/100New York 4.3%United States 4.3%2020-2024U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Census table B23025High uncertainty
Poor or fair health · low12.5%
89/100New York 16.8%United States 19.9%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate

Weaknesses

Effective property tax rate · high2.61%
1/100New York 1.30%United States 0.94%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25090
New business applications · low6.7 /1k
1/100New York 15.1 /1kUnited States 16.6 /1k2025U.S. Census BureauWayne County value
Rent as share of income · high51.0%
2/100New York 31.2%United States 30.6%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25071At least this value: the publisher's top bracket is open-ended
Primary care physicians · low23 /100k
7/100New York 83 /100kUnited States 76 /100k2022University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteWayne County value
Comfortable days · low23.0%
8/100New York 22.7%United States 26.8%2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationWayne County value
Hospital quality rating · low2.0
9/100New York 2.8United States 3.2Jul 2026Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesWayne County value

Trends

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

Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
67.6% (2016-2020) → 88.4% (2020-2024)
+21 pts4 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.1% → 51.1%
Rent as share of incomeWorsening
38.0% (2016-2020) → 51.0% (2020-2024)
+13 pts4 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.6% → 30.6%
Home price to income ratioWorsening
1.7× (2016-2020) → 2.1× (2020-2024)
+24%4 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
Bachelor's degree or higherImproving
43.3% (2016-2020) → 47.3% (2020-2024)
+4 pts4 yearsCensus table B15003US 32.9% → 35.7%
Median household incomeImproving
$93,421 (2016-2020) → $109,761 (2020-2024)
+17%4 yearsCensus table B19013US $67,340 → $81,604
High school diploma or higherImproving
94.6% (2016-2020) → 98.1% (2020-2024)
+3.4 pts4 yearsCensus table B15003US 88.5% → 89.6%

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.

There is not enough history to compare Gananda, New York over five years.

Cities and towns like Gananda, New York five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Gananda, 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.

No place that looked like Gananda, New York five years ago has more measures that improved than declined, with a higher standing among its peers today.

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

6,273 residents (±607)

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

† 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

6,273 residents (±607)

Gananda, New York
New York share

White86%5,377
Black1.8%†114
Hispanic or Latino1.3%†79

Education

4,448 residents (±398)

Gananda, New York
New York share

No high school diploma1.9%†85
High school or GED21%942
Some college18%†782

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

2,623 households (±265)

Gananda, New York
New York share

Under $25k11%†289
$25k–50k9.2%†241
$50k–75k15%†399
$75k–100k10%†270
$100k–150k23%†615
$150k–200k17%†452
$200k or more14%357

† 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

2,623 households (±265)

Gananda, New York
New York share

Own93%2,449
Rent6.6%†174

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

Table view

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

Rent paid

164 households (±71)

Gananda, New York
New York share

Under $75010%†17
$750–1,00034%†55
$1,000–1,50056%†92

Home values

2,449 homes (±260)

Gananda, New York
New York share

Under $150k11%†271
$150k–250k46%1,115
$250k–400k38%919

Age of homes

2,623 homes (±265)

Gananda, New York
New York share

2010 or later5.9%†156
2000–200920%516
1980–199958%1,532

Size of homes

2,623 homes (±265)

Gananda, New York
New York share

Studio0.0%0
1 bedroom1.8%†47
2 bedrooms14%†380

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

3,539 workers (±407)

Gananda, New York
New York share

Drive alone73%2,581
Carpool4.8%†171
Public transit0.0%0
Walk0.3%†9
Bike0.0%0
Work from home22%778
Other0.0%0

† 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

2,761 workers (±327)

Gananda, New York
New York share

Under 15 min13%†357
15–29 min47%1,303
30–44 min35%966

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

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 Rochester, 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 Wayne County, the county holding most of Gananda's residents.

Wayne County has 1,673 employer establishments, 184 for every 10,000 residents (0.74× the US rate of 248; 0.67× New York's), with 19,614 paid employees at an average annual pay of $51,564. The Census Bureau also counts 5,436 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 1,673; 5,436 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 184; US 248 · New York 274
Paid employees: 19,614
Average annual pay: $51,564; US $68,342

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

Specialty trade contractors	181	20	1.29×More than typical	944	$67,572	495
Restaurants and other eating places	128	14.1	0.77×Fewer than typical	1,482	$21,305	18
Construction of buildings	89	9.8	1.30×More than typical	296	$52,970	169
Services to buildings and dwellings	89	9.8	1.46×More than typical	231	$48,100	349
Ambulatory health care services	70	7.7	0.37×Fewer than typical	628	$51,131	206
Limited-service restaurants	63	6.9	0.87×About typical	875	$21,467	9
Landscaping services	62	6.8	1.95×More than typical	119	$68,546	148
Building equipment contractors	59	6.5	1.08×About typical	357	$61,280	97
Religious organizations	59	6.5	1.17×About typical	181	$17,287	—
Automotive repair and maintenance	58	6.4	1.27×More than typical	205	$39,854	103
Full-service restaurants	51	5.6	0.73×Fewer than typical	559	$20,499	8
Fabricated metal product manufacturing	45	5	3.11×More than typical	506	$53,401	23

Rank places for an industry Open Wayne County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 90,721 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 Gananda, New York: $0 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $0; −100% vs FY2025
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

3.4KFY2017
18.7KFY2018
9.1KFY2019
4.1KFY2020
1.4KFY2021
9KFY2022
11.1KFY2023
6.5KFY2024
5.4KFY2025

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

Gananda, New York's figures are part of those of Wayne County, NY ($24.3M 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: Gananda is mostly in Wayne County.

See federal money in Wayne 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.

Gananda, 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.

Wayne County78100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Rochester, NY83

Other cities and towns in Wayne 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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