Village · Herkimer County, New York

Ilion, New York

Ilion is a village in Herkimer County, New York, part of the Utica-Rome, NY metro area. It has 7,593 residents. Ilion, New York has a quality-of-life score of 44 out of 100 (moderate), ranking #8,777 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within New York it ranks #750 of 859 cities and towns. It ranks best on hot days (low), home price to income ratio (low) and homicide rate (low). It ranks worst on comfortable days (low), effective property tax rate (high) and grocery stores (low).

44Moderate

Quality-of-life score: #8,777 of 15,651 cities and towns
New York: #750 of 859 in NY
Population: 7,593 (2020-2024)
Land area: 2 mi²
Density: 3,045.8 /mi²
FIPS code: 3637275

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.

Safety71#4,497/15,637
Economy24#11,893/15,631
Housing33#10,065/14,977
Health55#6,978/15,609
Healthcare21#12,370/15,650
Environment77#3,498/15,453
Education40#9,368/15,649
Infrastructure35#10,192/15,650
Community62#5,948/15,651
Leisure & amenities50#7,815/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Hot days · low0 days
98/100New York 3 daysUnited States 42 days2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationHerkimer County value
Home price to income ratio · low1.7×
94/100New York 4.9×United States 4.1×2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25077
Homicide rate · low0.0 /100k
94/100New York 2.7 /100kUnited States 4.8 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataHerkimer County value
Time spent in the emergency room · low109 min
93/100New York 202 minUnited States 170 minOct 2024–Sep 2025Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesHerkimer County value
Public libraries · high2.2 /10k
92/100New York 0.5 /10kUnited States 0.5 /10k2024Institute of Museum and Library ServicesHerkimer County value
Fine particulate matter (PM2.5) · low5.9 µg/m³
90/100New York 7.2 µg/m³United States 8.0 µg/m³2022Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyHerkimer County value

Weaknesses

Comfortable days · low21.4%
1/100New York 22.7%United States 26.8%2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationHerkimer County value
Effective property tax rate · high2.52%
2/100New York 1.30%United States 0.94%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25090
Grocery stores · low0.7 /10k
4/100New York 3.4 /10kUnited States 1.7 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsHerkimer County value
New business applications · low7.6 /1k
5/100New York 15.1 /1kUnited States 16.6 /1k2025U.S. Census BureauHerkimer County value
Income inequality (Gini index) · high0.486
6/100New York 0.517United States 0.4832020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B19083
Hospital quality rating · low2.0
9/100New York 2.8United States 3.2Jul 2026Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesHerkimer County value

Trends

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

Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
33.7% (2015-2019) → 45.9% (2020-2024)
+12 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
84.0% (2015-2019) → 89.6% (2020-2024)
+5.6 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Income inequality (Gini index)Worsening
0.393 (2015-2019) → 0.486 (2020-2024)
+24%5 yearsCensus table B19083US 0.482 → 0.483
Unemployment rateImproving
6.8% (2015-2019) → 2.2% (2020-2024)
−4.6 pts5 yearsCensus table B23025US 3.7% → 4.0%
Poverty rateImproving
17.6% (2015-2019) → 14.5% (2020-2024)
−3.1 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 12.3% → 12.1%
Median household incomeImproving
$54,397 (2015-2019) → $62,843 (2020-2024)
+16%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604

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, Ilion, New York improved on 1 of 12 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.

Improved1

Broadband+5.6 points84.0% → 89.6%

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 12 measures

Change of every measure of Ilion, New York between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	20.1 min2015-2019	19.8 min2020-2024	−0.3 min	Within the margin of error	51%
Bachelor's degree or higher	24.3%2015-2019	22.8%2020-2024	−1.5 points	Within the margin of error	18%
Broadband subscriptions	84.0%2015-2019	89.6%2020-2024	+5.6 points	Improved	35%
Child poverty rate	17.9%2015-2019	16.3%2020-2024	−1.5 points	Within the margin of error	53%
Effective property tax rate	2.81%2015-2019	2.51%2020-2024	−0.3 points	Within the margin of error	73%
High school diploma or higher	93.2%2015-2019	90.6%2020-2024	−2.7 points	Within the margin of error	12%
Home price to income ratio	1.5×2015-2019	1.7×2020-2024	+0.2×	Within the margin of error	66%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.3932015-2019	0.4862020-2024	+0.093	Within the margin of error	5%
Median household income	$54,3972015-2019	$62,8432020-2024	+16%	Within the margin of error	25%
Poverty rate	17.6%2015-2019	14.5%2020-2024	−3.1 points	Within the margin of error	70%
Rent as share of income	26.4%2015-2019	24.7%2020-2024	−1.7 points	Within the margin of error	67%
Rent-burdened households	33.7%2015-2019	45.9%2020-2024	+12 points	Within the margin of error	19%

“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 Ilion, New York five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Ilion, 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, Ilion, New York itself moved −13.9 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

7,593 residents (±30)

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

3,549 households (±288)

Ilion, New York
New York share

Under $25k21%†753
$25k–50k19%†687
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

3,549 households (±288)

Ilion, New York
New York share

Own66%2,350
Rent34%1,199

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

3,341 workers (±449)

Ilion, New York
New York share

Drive alone81%2,699
Carpool5.4%†179
Public transit0.6%†20

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 Utica-Rome, 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 Herkimer County, the county holding most of Ilion's residents.

Herkimer County has 1,124 employer establishments, 189 for every 10,000 residents (0.76× the US rate of 248; 0.69× New York's), with 11,873 paid employees at an average annual pay of $44,042. The Census Bureau also counts 3,511 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 1,124; 3,511 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 189; US 248 · New York 274
Paid employees: 11,873
Average annual pay: $44,042; US $68,342

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

Restaurants and other eating places	117	19.6	1.07×About typical	1,113	$21,071	18
Specialty trade contractors	109	18.3	1.18×About typical	385	$85,343	364
Ambulatory health care services	57	9.6	0.46×Fewer than typical	575	$53,463	108
Full-service restaurants	51	8.6	1.12×About typical	552	$23,734	7
Limited-service restaurants	49	8.2	1.03×About typical	468	$18,521	10
Other specialty trade contractors	45	7.6	3.01×More than typical	118	$139,992	145
Construction of buildings	42	7.1	0.93×About typical	120	$53,750	156
Lessors of real estate	36	6	0.49×Fewer than typical	114	$30,263	307
Religious organizations	35	5.9	1.06×About typical	183	$20,601	—
Automotive repair and maintenance	29	4.9	0.97×About typical	113	$41,407	72
Truck transportation	28	4.7	0.93×About typical	245	$67,147	130
Amusement, gambling and recreation industries	27	4.5	1.71×More than typical	173	$62,092	42

Rank places for an industry Open Herkimer County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 59,551 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 Ilion, 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

95.8KFY2017
868.5KFY2018
114.4KFY2019
6.9KFY2020
222.3FY2021
21KFY2023

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

Ilion, New York's figures are part of those of Herkimer County, NY ($584.3K 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: Ilion is mostly in Herkimer County.

See federal money in Herkimer 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.

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

House

Elise M. StefanikR-NY-21 · 100% of residentsWith party 97%Missed 16.3%

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.

Herkimer County69100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Utica-Rome, NY82

Other cities and towns in Herkimer 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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