Village · Sullivan County, New York

Monticello, New York

Monticello is a village in Sullivan County, New York, part of the Monticello, NY metro area. It has 7,279 residents. Monticello, New York has a quality-of-life score of 29 out of 100 (low), ranking #11,123 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within New York it ranks #839 of 859 cities and towns. It ranks best on grocery stores (high), students per teacher (low) and job growth (high). It ranks worst on mental health care shortage (high), poverty rate (high) and physical inactivity (high).

29Low

Quality-of-life score: #11,123 of 15,651 cities and towns
New York: #839 of 859 in NY
Population: 7,279 (2020-2024)
Land area: 4 mi²
Density: 1,780.2 /mi²
FIPS code: 3648175

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.

Safety80#3,147/15,637
Economy8#14,380/15,631
Housing22#11,747/14,977
Health35#10,137/15,609
Healthcare20#12,559/15,650
Environment93#1,059/15,453
Education16#13,192/15,649
Infrastructure3#15,225/15,650
Community32#10,711/15,651
Leisure & amenities87#2,093/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Grocery stores · high3.5 /10k
96/100New York 3.4 /10kUnited States 1.7 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsSullivan County value
Students per teacher · low10.6×
96/100New York 12.0×United States 15.2×2024National Center for Education StatisticsSullivan County value
Job growth · high3.1%
94/100New York -0.3%United States 0.1%2026 Q1U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsProvisional dataSullivan County value
Hot days · low2 days
94/100New York 3 daysUnited States 42 days2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationSullivan County value
Arts, entertainment and recreation · high7.4 /10k
90/100New York 7.5 /10kUnited States 5.5 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsSullivan County value
Public EV charging ports · high14.1 /10k
90/100New York 10.8 /10kUnited States 7.6 /10kOct 2026U.S. Department of EnergySullivan County value

Weaknesses

Mental health care shortage · high19.0
4/100New York 4.8United States 9.9Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationSullivan County value
Poverty rate · high29.7%
7/100New York 14.0%United States 12.1%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B17001
Physical inactivity · high36.2%
7/100New York 24.5%United States 26.5%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate
Effective property tax rate · high2.00%
7/100New York 1.30%United States 0.94%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25090
Income inequality (Gini index) · high0.483
8/100New York 0.517United States 0.4832020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B19083
High school diploma or higher · low74.2%
8/100New York 88.0%United States 89.6%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B15003

Trends

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

PopulationRising
6,433 (2015-2019) → 7,279 (2020-2024)
+13%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Rent-burdened householdsImproving
71.7% (2015-2019) → 52.5% (2020-2024)
−19 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
72.8% (2015-2019) → 85.3% (2020-2024)
+12 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Median household incomeImproving
$31,723 (2015-2019) → $50,583 (2020-2024)
+59%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604
Rent as share of incomeImproving
41.8% (2015-2019) → 31.4% (2020-2024)
−10 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%
Uninsured residents (under 65)Improving
14.6% (2015-2019) → 6.9% (2020-2024)
−7.8 pts5 yearsCensus table B27010US 10.8% → 9.8%

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, Monticello, New York improved on 5 of 13 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 8 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.

Improved5

Uninsured−7.8 points14.6% → 6.9%
Rent / income−10 points41.8% → 31.4%
Rent burden−19 points71.7% → 52.5%
Household income+59%$31,723 → $50,583
Broadband+12 points72.8% → 85.3%

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 13 measures

Change of every measure of Monticello, New York between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	20.9 min2015-2019	21.5 min2020-2024	+0.6 min	Within the margin of error	40%
Bachelor's degree or higher	18.8%2015-2019	12.1%2020-2024	−6.8 points	Within the margin of error	4%
Broadband subscriptions	72.8%2015-2019	85.3%2020-2024	+12 points	Improved	71%
Child poverty rate	42.7%2015-2019	47.2%2020-2024	+4.5 points	Within the margin of error	22%
Effective property tax rate	2.66%2015-2019	2.00%2020-2024	−0.7 points	Within the margin of error	96%
High school diploma or higher	78.4%2015-2019	74.2%2020-2024	−4.2 points	Within the margin of error	7%
Home price to income ratio	3.4×2015-2019	3.4×2020-2024	+0.0×	Within the margin of error	77%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4972015-2019	0.4832020-2024	−0.013	Within the margin of error	62%
Median household income	$31,7232015-2019	$50,5832020-2024	+59%	Improved	90%
Poverty rate	27.8%2015-2019	29.7%2020-2024	+1.9 points	Within the margin of error	27%
Rent as share of income	41.8%2015-2019	31.4%2020-2024	−10 points	Improved	94%
Rent-burdened households	71.7%2015-2019	52.5%2020-2024	−19 points	Improved	93%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	14.6%2015-2019	6.9%2020-2024	−7.8 points	Improved	93%

“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 Monticello, New York five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Monticello, 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, Monticello, New York itself moved +6.4 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

7,279 residents (±36)

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

3,040 households (±318)

Monticello, New York
New York share

Under $25k32%†987
$25k–50k17%†502
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

3,040 households (±318)

Monticello, New York
New York share

Own20%610
Rent80%2,430

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: Own (−10.4 points).

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Getting to work

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

How people get to work

3,171 workers (±432)

Monticello, New York
New York share

Drive alone74%2,337
Carpool6.6%†208
Public transit0.7%†

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 Monticello, 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 Sullivan County, the county holding most of Monticello's residents.

Sullivan County has 2,061 employer establishments, 256 for every 10,000 residents (1.03× the US rate of 248; 0.94× New York's), with 22,087 paid employees at an average annual pay of $46,336. The Census Bureau also counts 6,804 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 2,061; 6,804 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 256; US 248 · New York 274
Paid employees: 22,087
Average annual pay: $46,336; US $68,342

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

Restaurants and other eating places	164	20.4	1.11×About typical	1,116	$28,642	48
Specialty trade contractors	160	19.9	1.29×More than typical	549	$53,097	559
Construction of buildings	112	13.9	1.84×More than typical	357	$51,591	317
Lessors of real estate	112	13.9	1.13×About typical	298	$76,611	826
Ambulatory health care services	90	11.2	0.54×Fewer than typical	596	$58,173	274
Full-service restaurants	75	9.3	1.21×About typical	555	$30,277	23
Limited-service restaurants	66	8.2	1.02×About typical	446	$27,184	16
Services to buildings and dwellings	59	7.3	1.09×About typical	192	$41,109	453
Building equipment contractors	58	7.2	1.20×About typical	241	$57,469	119
Religious organizations	54	6.7	1.21×About typical	899	$28,110	—
Grocery and convenience stores	53	6.6	2.22×More than typical	689	$33,261	25
Landscaping services	48	6	1.70×More than typical	103	$50,505	170

Rank places for an industry Open Sullivan County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 80,413 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 Monticello, 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

4.1KFY2017
-495.5FY2018
641.9FY2019
1.8KFY2020
7.5KFY2021
-240.7FY2022
1.2KFY2023
-2KFY2024
340.3FY2025

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

Monticello, New York's figures are part of those of Sullivan County, NY ($12.2M 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: Monticello is mostly in Sullivan County.

See federal money in Sullivan 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.

Monticello, 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.

Sullivan County65100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Monticello, NY64

Other cities and towns in Sullivan 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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