Census-designated place · Columbia County, New York

Lorenz Park, New York

Lorenz Park is a census-designated place in Columbia County, New York, part of the Hudson, NY metro area. It has 1,991 residents. Lorenz Park, New York has a quality-of-life score of 61 out of 100 (high), ranking #6,096 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within New York it ranks #598 of 859 cities and towns. It ranks best on students per teacher (low), public EV charging ports (high) and arts, entertainment and recreation (high). It ranks worst on hospital quality rating (low), time spent in the emergency room (high) and child care cost burden (high).

61High

Quality-of-life score: #6,096 of 15,651 cities and towns
New York: #598 of 859 in NY
Population: 1,991 (2020-2024)
Land area: 2 mi²
Density: 1,115.6 /mi²
FIPS code: 3643511

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.

Safety95#794/15,637
Economy23#11,998/15,631
Housing13#13,090/14,977
Health65#5,446/15,609
Healthcare47#8,284/15,650
Environment85#2,272/15,453
Education58#6,552/15,649
Infrastructure35#10,109/15,650
Community56#6,851/15,651
Leisure & amenities97#476/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Lorenz Park, New York ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Columbia 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 · low9.7×
99/100New York 12.0×United States 15.2×2024National Center for Education StatisticsColumbia County value
Public EV charging ports · high23.1 /10k
97/100New York 10.8 /10kUnited States 7.6 /10kOct 2026U.S. Department of EnergyColumbia County value
Arts, entertainment and recreation · high12.3 /10k
97/100New York 7.5 /10kUnited States 5.5 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsColumbia County value
Uninsured residents (under 65) · low1.0%
96/100New York 5.9%United States 9.8%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B27010High uncertainty
Restaurants and bars · high14.6 /10k
95/100New York 11.3 /10kUnited States 9.0 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsColumbia County value
Violent crime rate · low65 /100k
95/100New York 368 /100kUnited States 328 /100k2024Federal Bureau of InvestigationCovers part of the area: some reporting agencies or member counties have no figureColumbia County value

Weaknesses

Hospital quality rating · low1.0
1/100New York 2.8United States 3.2Jul 2026Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesColumbia County value
Time spent in the emergency room · high243 min
5/100New York 202 minUnited States 170 minOct 2024–Sep 2025Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesColumbia County value
Child care cost burden · high41.3%
6/100New York 37.7%United States 27.9%2023 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteColumbia County value
Average commute time · high17.8 min
11/100New York 32.6 minUnited States 26.4 min2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B08013
Effective property tax rate · high1.85%
11/100New York 1.30%United States 0.94%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25090
Comfortable days · low23.5%
13/100New York 22.7%United States 26.8%2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationColumbia County value

Trends

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

PopulationFalling
2,140 (2015-2019) → 1,991 (2020-2024)
−7%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Child poverty rateImproving
23.3% (2015-2019) → 0.0% (2020-2024)
−23 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
72.6% (2015-2019) → 89.8% (2020-2024)
+17 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
33.3% (2015-2019) → 46.7% (2020-2024)
+13 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Median household incomeImproving
$52,835 (2015-2019) → $85,188 (2020-2024)
+61%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604
High school diploma or higherWorsening
89.9% (2015-2019) → 78.8% (2020-2024)
−11 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 88.0% → 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.

Over about five years, Lorenz Park, New York improved on 1 of 7 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 6 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+17 points72.6% → 89.8%

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 7 measures

Change of every measure of Lorenz Park, New York between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	19.3 min2015-2019	17.8 min2020-2024	−1.5 min	Within the margin of error	65%
Bachelor's degree or higher	19.9%2015-2019	30.5%2020-2024	+11 points	Within the margin of error	91%
Broadband subscriptions	72.6%2015-2019	89.8%2020-2024	+17 points	Improved	85%
Effective property tax rate	1.78%2015-2019	1.85%2020-2024	+0.1 points	Within the margin of error	8%
High school diploma or higher	89.9%2015-2019	78.8%2020-2024	−11 points	Within the margin of error	1%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4552015-2019	0.4202020-2024	−0.035	Within the margin of error	77%
Poverty rate	19.8%2015-2019	16.9%2020-2024	−2.9 points	Within the margin of error	69%

“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 10944 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 Lorenz Park, New York five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Lorenz Park, 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, Lorenz Park, New York itself moved +3.2 points in standing on average over the same 6 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

1,991 residents (±477)

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

827 households (±205)

Lorenz Park, New York
New York share

Under $25k19%†160
$25k–50k19%†158
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

827 households (±205)

Lorenz Park, New York
New York share

Own79%†657
Rent21%†170

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.

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Getting to work

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

How people get to work

936 workers (±261)

Lorenz Park, New York
New York share

Drive alone76%†707
Carpool9.6%†90
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 Hudson, 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 Columbia County, the county holding most of Lorenz Park's residents.

Columbia County has 1,819 employer establishments, 300 for every 10,000 residents (1.21× the US rate of 248; 1.10× New York's), with 16,420 paid employees at an average annual pay of $49,824. The Census Bureau also counts 7,263 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 1,819; 7,263 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 300; US 248 · New York 274
Paid employees: 16,420
Average annual pay: $49,824; US $68,342

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

Specialty trade contractors	160	26.4	1.71×More than typical	662	$59,556	554
Restaurants and other eating places	144	23.8	1.29×More than typical	1,667	$26,641	26
Construction of buildings	98	16.2	2.14×More than typical	380	$51,379	256
Ambulatory health care services	88	14.5	0.70×Fewer than typical	777	$56,786	338
Full-service restaurants	85	14	1.83×More than typical	1,078	$29,021	13
Services to buildings and dwellings	82	13.5	2.01×More than typical	188	$55,878	447
Landscaping services	73	12	3.44×More than typical	145	$62,476	254
Building equipment contractors	57	9.4	1.56×More than typical	195	$57,190	83
Lessors of real estate	54	8.9	0.72×Fewer than typical	130	$45,262	835
Building finishing contractors	42	6.9	1.82×More than typical	111	$53,279	228
Management, scientific and technical consulting	41	6.8	1.01×About typical	49	$84,796	347
Limited-service restaurants	39	6.4	0.80×About typical	439	$22,877	7

Rank places for an industry Open Columbia County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 60,607 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 $2,347 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Lorenz Park, New York: $1.18 per resident (US $1,995).

Obligations: $2,347; −65% vs FY2025
Per resident: $1.18; US $1,995
Sole-source: 4.2%; US 30%
Single offer: 28%; 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

Defense Logistics Agency$2,771100%

Top recipients

ATMOST REFRIGERATION COMPANY, INC.$2,771100%
TACONIC BIOSCIENCES, INC.-$4240.0%

Spending by fiscal year

31.8KFY2017
29.7KFY2018
26.1KFY2019
13KFY2020
14.5KFY2021
15.3KFY2022
4.7KFY2023
12.2KFY2024

Top industries (NAICS)

Industrial machinery manufacturing · 3332$2,434100%
Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturing · 3345$25711%
Electrical equipment manufacturing · 3353$48.352.1%
Other miscellaneous manufacturing · 3399$31.431.3%

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 7, 2026, loaded Oct 7, 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 Lorenz Park, New York, so they do not add up across cities.

Lorenz Park, New York's figures are part of those of Columbia County, NY ($2.4M in FY2026), never added to them: 0.1% of that total.

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

See federal money in Columbia 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.

Lorenz Park, 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.

Columbia County88100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Hudson, NY86

Other cities and towns in Columbia 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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