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Oneida, New York

Oneida is a city in Madison County, New York, part of the Syracuse, NY metro area. It has 10,171 residents. Oneida, New York has a quality-of-life score of 55 out of 100 (moderate), ranking #7,028 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within New York it ranks #650 of 859 cities and towns. It ranks best on hot days (low), homicide rate (low) and public EV charging ports (high). It ranks worst on comfortable days (low), new business applications (low) and broadband subscriptions (low).

55Moderate

Quality-of-life score: #7,028 of 15,651 cities and towns
New York: #650 of 859 in NY
Population: 10,171 (2020-2024)
Land area: 22 mi²
Density: 461.2 /mi²
FIPS code: 3654837

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.

Safety91#1,459/15,637
Economy29#11,118/15,631
Housing32#10,158/14,977
Health54#7,109/15,609
Healthcare46#8,506/15,650
Environment77#3,578/15,453
Education46#8,496/15,649
Infrastructure40#9,366/15,650
Community54#7,232/15,651
Leisure & amenities65#5,420/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Oneida, New York ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Madison 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 · low1 days
97/100New York 3 daysUnited States 42 days2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationMadison County value
Homicide rate · low0.0 /100k
94/100New York 2.7 /100kUnited States 4.8 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataMadison County value
Public EV charging ports · high17.6 /10k
93/100New York 10.8 /10kUnited States 7.6 /10kOct 2026U.S. Department of EnergyMadison 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 AgencyMadison County value
Students per teacher · low11.6×
89/100New York 12.0×United States 15.2×2024National Center for Education StatisticsMadison County value
Violent crime rate · low91 /100k
88/100New York 368 /100kUnited States 328 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationMadison County value

Weaknesses

Comfortable days · low21.2%
1/100New York 22.7%United States 26.8%2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationMadison County value
New business applications · low7.2 /1k
3/100New York 15.1 /1kUnited States 16.6 /1k2025U.S. Census BureauMadison County value
Broadband subscriptions · low81.3%
3/100New York 90.8%United States 91.0%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B28002
Effective property tax rate · high1.87%
10/100New York 1.30%United States 0.94%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25090
New homes permitted · low0.0 /1k
13/100New York 2.4 /1kUnited States 4.2 /1kSep 2025–Aug 2026U.S. Census BureauProvisional data
Dentists · low33 /100k
14/100New York 84 /100kUnited States 75 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteMadison County value

Trends

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

PopulationFalling
10,948 (2015-2019) → 10,171 (2020-2024)
−7.1%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Child poverty rateImproving
21.5% (2015-2019) → 15.3% (2020-2024)
−6.2 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Broadband subscriptionsWorsening
85.8% (2015-2019) → 81.3% (2020-2024)
−4.6 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Median household incomeImproving
$50,746 (2015-2019) → $61,597 (2020-2024)
+21%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604
Home price to income ratioWorsening
2.3× (2015-2019) → 2.6× (2020-2024)
+15%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
Average commute timeImproving
21.6 min (2015-2019) → 19.1 min (2020-2024)
−12%5 yearsCensus table B08013US 26.9 min → 26.4 min

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, Oneida, New York improved on 1 of 14 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 13 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

Household income+21%$50,746 → $61,597

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 14 measures

Change of every measure of Oneida, New York between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	21.6 min2015-2019	19.1 min2020-2024	−2.6 min	Within the margin of error	76%
Bachelor's degree or higher	24.2%2015-2019	25.3%2020-2024	+1.2 points	Within the margin of error	36%
Broadband subscriptions	85.8%2015-2019	81.3%2020-2024	−4.6 points	Within the margin of error	2%
Child poverty rate	21.5%2015-2019	15.3%2020-2024	−6.2 points	Within the margin of error	72%
Effective property tax rate	2.16%2015-2019	1.87%2020-2024	−0.3 points	Within the margin of error	72%
High school diploma or higher	91.5%2015-2019	89.6%2020-2024	−2 points	Within the margin of error	15%
Home price to income ratio	2.3×2015-2019	2.6×2020-2024	+0.3×	Within the margin of error	58%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4412015-2019	0.4652020-2024	+0.024	Within the margin of error	31%
Median household income	$50,7462015-2019	$61,5972020-2024	+21%	Improved	36%
Poverty rate	14.5%2015-2019	14.3%2020-2024	−0.3 points	Within the margin of error	46%
Rent as share of income	30.1%2015-2019	29.2%2020-2024	−0.9 points	Within the margin of error	62%
Rent-burdened households	50.3%2015-2019	48.2%2020-2024	−2.1 points	Within the margin of error	63%
Unemployment rate	5.0%2015-2019	3.5%2020-2024	−1.5 points	Within the margin of error	76%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	2.9%2015-2019	4.5%2020-2024	+1.7 points	Within the margin of error	28%

“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 Oneida, New York five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Oneida, 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, Oneida, New York itself moved −6.1 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

10,171 residents (±25)

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

4,619 households (±238)

Oneida, New York
New York share

Under $25k19%868
$25k–50k23%1,085
$50k–75k17%772

Homes

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

Owners and renters

4,619 households (±238)

Oneida, New York
New York share

Own62%2,861
Rent38%1,758

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

4,769 workers (±340)

Oneida, New York
New York share

Drive alone78%3,736
Carpool7.5%358
Public transit0.3%†12

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 Syracuse, 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 Madison County, the county holding most of Oneida's residents.

Madison County has 1,328 employer establishments, 197 for every 10,000 residents (0.80× the US rate of 248; 0.72× New York's), with 17,161 paid employees at an average annual pay of $47,310. The Census Bureau also counts 4,718 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 1,328; 4,718 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 197; US 248 · New York 274
Paid employees: 17,161
Average annual pay: $47,310; US $68,342

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

Restaurants and other eating places	113	16.8	0.92×About typical	1,377	$21,290	20
Ambulatory health care services	102	15.2	0.73×Fewer than typical	946	$71,581	222
Specialty trade contractors	80	11.9	0.77×Fewer than typical	301	$69,718	397
Construction of buildings	64	9.5	1.26×More than typical	166	$52,898	182
Services to buildings and dwellings	64	9.5	1.41×More than typical	261	$32,011	256
Full-service restaurants	48	7.1	0.93×About typical	609	$21,591	7
Limited-service restaurants	46	6.8	0.85×About typical	590	$21,469	11
Landscaping services	44	6.5	1.87×More than typical	106	$45,708	111
Religious organizations	40	5.9	1.07×About typical	190	$16,111	—
Offices of physicians	38	5.7	0.87×About typical	416	$83,212	30
Automotive repair and maintenance	36	5.4	1.06×About typical	119	$43,714	55
Lessors of real estate	31	4.6	0.37×Fewer than typical	105	$34,019	416

Rank places for an industry Open Madison County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 67,242 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 $6.5M of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Oneida, New York: $641 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $6.5M; +30% vs FY2025
Per resident: $641; US $1,994
Sole-source: 70%; 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

Office of Procurement Operations$3.7M56%
Department of the Air Force$1.5M23%
Department of the Army$903.2K14%
Federal Emergency Management Agency$449.5K6.9%
Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons$1,4810.0%

Top recipients

FPM REMEDIATIONS, INC.$5.4M83%
ONEIDA TECHNICAL SOLUTIONS, LLC$1.1M18%
TEKTON CONSTRUCTION LLC$15.2K0.2%
KOESTER ASSOCIATES INC$1,4810.0%
NATIONAL GRID USA SERVICE COMPANY, INC.-$33.6K0.0%

Spending by fiscal year

3.1MFY2017
1.7MFY2018
1.3MFY2019
2.1MFY2020
2.9MFY2021
5.2MFY2022
17.8MFY2023
8.8M

Top industries (NAICS)

Remediation and other waste management services · 5629$5.4M83%
Computer systems design and related services · 5415$1.1M18%
Services to buildings and dwellings · 5617$15.2K0.2%
Machinery, equipment, and supplies merchant wholesalers · 4238$1,4810.0%

Largest awards whose ZIP code lies mostly in Oneida, New York

CENTRAL SOUTH ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION AT MULTIPLE LOCATIONS.$17.6M
FPM REMEDIATIONS, INC.· Madison County, NY· Professional services· Sep 11, 2020 – Feb 24, 2026· FA890320F0007
ENTERPRISE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AS A SERVICE WAVE 1 FIELD SERVICES$10.2M
ONEIDA TECHNICAL SOLUTIONS, LLC· Madison County, NY· IT & telecom· Sep 22, 2023 – Apr 1, 2026· FA872623FB097
EITAAS WAVE 1 - SECRET INTERNET PROTOCOL ROUTER (SIPR) - ONEIDA$7.4M
ONEIDA TECHNICAL SOLUTIONS, LLC· Madison County, NY· IT & telecom· Sep 30, 2024 – Jun 5, 2026· FA872624FB123
THE PURPOSE OF THIS CONTRACT IS TO PURCHASE CYBER OPERATIONS AS A SERVICE IN SUPPORT OF THE UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY AT WEST POINT.

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

Oneida, New York's figures are part of those of Madison County, NY ($14.5M in FY2026), never added to them: 45% of that total.

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

See federal money in Madison 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.

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

House

John W. MannionD-NY-22 · 100% of residentsWith party 93%Missed 0.6%

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.

Madison County84100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Syracuse, NY85

Other cities and towns in Madison 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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