Village · Franklin County, New York

Malone, New York

Malone is a village in Franklin County, New York. It has 5,429 residents. Malone, New York has a quality-of-life score of 60 out of 100 (moderate), ranking #6,338 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within New York it ranks #614 of 859 cities and towns. It ranks best on students per teacher (low), hot days (low) and public transit commuters (high). It ranks worst on comfortable days (low), new business applications (low) and effective property tax rate (high).

60Moderate

Quality-of-life score: #6,338 of 15,651 cities and towns
New York: #614 of 859 in NY
Population: 5,429 (2020-2024)
Land area: 3 mi²
Density: 1,740.5 /mi²
FIPS code: 3644710

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 70 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#2,736/15,637
Economy30#10,939/15,631
Housing61#5,900/14,977
Health53#7,364/15,609
Healthcare40#9,352/15,650
Environment96#622/15,453
Education48#8,154/15,649
Infrastructure63#5,815/15,650
Community21#12,358/15,651
Leisure & amenities65#5,497/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Malone, New York ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Franklin 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 · low9.8×
98/100New York 12.0×United States 15.2×2024National Center for Education StatisticsFranklin County value
Hot days · low1 days
97/100New York 3 daysUnited States 42 days2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationFranklin County value
Public transit commuters · high7.3%
96/100New York 21.6%United States 3.2%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B08301High uncertainty
Home price to income ratio · low1.8×
95/100New York 4.9×United States 4.1×2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25077
Fine particulate matter (PM2.5) · low5.4 µg/m³
94/100New York 7.2 µg/m³United States 8.0 µg/m³2022Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyFranklin County value
Average commute time · low13.2 min
92/100New York 32.6 minUnited States 26.4 min2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B08013

Weaknesses

Comfortable days · low20.7%
0/100New York 22.7%United States 26.8%2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationFranklin County value
New business applications · low6.5 /1k
1/100New York 15.1 /1kUnited States 16.6 /1k2025U.S. Census BureauFranklin County value
Effective property tax rate · high2.31%
3/100New York 1.30%United States 0.94%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25090
Dental care shortage · high18.0
6/100New York 3.7United States 5.7Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationFranklin County value
Voter turnout · low53.4%
8/100New York 59.5%United States 65.2%2024U.S. Election Assistance CommissionFranklin County value
Child care cost burden · high38.5%
12/100New York 37.7%United States 27.9%2023 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteFranklin County value

Trends

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

Rent-burdened householdsImproving
60.2% (2015-2019) → 31.0% (2020-2024)
−29 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Child poverty rateImproving
49.0% (2015-2019) → 26.4% (2020-2024)
−23 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Rent as share of incomeImproving
33.8% (2015-2019) → 22.1% (2020-2024)
−12 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
77.8% (2015-2019) → 88.4% (2020-2024)
+11 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Median household incomeImproving
$39,722 (2015-2019) → $60,548 (2020-2024)
+52%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604
Poverty rateImproving
32.0% (2015-2019) → 22.2% (2020-2024)
−9.8 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 12.3% → 12.1%

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, Malone, New York improved on 8 of 13 measures with a comparison and declined on 1. 4 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.

Improved8

Child poverty−23 points49.0% → 26.4%
Rent burden−29 points60.2% → 31.0%
Rent / income−12 points33.8% → 22.1%
Poverty−9.8 points32.0% → 22.2%
Inequality−0.0950.492 → 0.398

Declined1

Uninsured+4.8 points3.2% → 8.0%

All 13 measures

Change of every measure of Malone, New York between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	19.5 min2015-2019	13.2 min2020-2024	−6.3 min	Improved	94%
Bachelor's degree or higher	22.1%2015-2019	24.0%2020-2024	+1.9 points	Within the margin of error	42%
Broadband subscriptions	77.8%2015-2019	88.4%2020-2024	+11 points	Improved	62%
Child poverty rate	49.0%2015-2019	26.4%2020-2024	−23 points	Improved	95%
Effective property tax rate	2.97%2015-2019	2.31%2020-2024	−0.7 points	Within the margin of error	96%
High school diploma or higher	82.8%2015-2019	92.3%2020-2024	+9.5 points	Within the margin of error	95%
Home price to income ratio	2.1×2015-2019	1.8×2020-2024	−0.3×	Within the margin of error	90%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4922015-2019	0.3982020-2024	−0.095	Improved	95%
Median household income	$39,7222015-2019	$60,5482020-2024	+52%	Improved	86%
Poverty rate	32.0%2015-2019	22.2%2020-2024	−9.8 points	Improved	92%
Rent as share of income	33.8%2015-2019	22.1%2020-2024	−12 points	Improved	95%
Rent-burdened households	60.2%2015-2019	31.0%2020-2024	−29 points	Improved	97%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	3.2%2015-2019	8.0%2020-2024	+4.8 points	Declined	11%

“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 Malone, New York five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Malone, 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, Malone, New York itself moved +27.2 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

5,429 residents (±23)

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

2,662 households (±176)

Malone, New York
New York share

Under $25k20%†534
$25k–50k24%650
$50k–75k20%†541

Homes

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

Owners and renters

2,662 households (±176)

Malone, New York
New York share

Own52%1,375
Rent48%1,287

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

2,657 workers (±285)

Malone, New York
New York share

Drive alone70%1,848
Carpool6.8%†180
Public transit7.3%†

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 Franklin County, the county holding most of Malone's residents.

Franklin County has 922 employer establishments, 199 for every 10,000 residents (0.80× the US rate of 248; 0.73× New York's), with 10,317 paid employees at an average annual pay of $48,656. The Census Bureau also counts 2,855 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 922; 2,855 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 199; US 248 · New York 274
Paid employees: 10,317
Average annual pay: $48,656; US $68,342

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

Restaurants and other eating places	73	15.8	0.86×About typical	725	$22,385	19
Specialty trade contractors	59	12.8	0.82×About typical	337	$61,484	276
Construction of buildings	55	11.9	1.57×More than typical	216	$55,620	145
Ambulatory health care services	53	11.5	0.55×Fewer than typical	673	$67,982	95
Full-service restaurants	36	7.8	1.01×About typical	312	$24,763	4
Individual and family services	36	7.8	2.78×More than typical	672	$30,772	8
Lessors of real estate	33	7.1	0.58×Fewer than typical	104	$39,865	278
Limited-service restaurants	28	6.1	0.76×Fewer than typical	366	$19,587	10
Religious organizations	25	5.4	0.98×About typical	69	$20,275	—
Gasoline stations	21	4.5	1.40×More than typical	274	$28,719	—
Building equipment contractors	20	4.3	0.72×Fewer than typical	166	$66,386	45
Services to buildings and dwellings	20	4.3	0.64×Fewer than typical	20	$85,850	191

Rank places for an industry Open Franklin County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 46,224 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 $18.2K of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Malone, New York: $3.35 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $18.2K; +165% vs FY2025
Per resident: $3.35; US $1,994
Sole-source: 0.0%; US 30%
Single offer: 0.0%; 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

Department of the Army$18.2K100%

Top recipients

EVERYTHING ELECTRIC, INC.$18.2K100.0%

Spending by fiscal year

1.7KFY2017
977.8FY2018
1.8KFY2019
86.2KFY2020
4.9KFY2021
990FY2022
4.8KFY2023
598.5FY2024

Top industries (NAICS)

Hardware manufacturing · 3325$18.2K100.0%

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

Malone, New York's figures are part of those of Franklin County, NY ($38.1M 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: Malone is mostly in Franklin County.

See federal money in Franklin 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.

Malone, 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.

Franklin County72100% of residents

Other cities and towns in Franklin 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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