Census-designated place · Rockland County, New York

Stony Point, New York

Stony Point is a census-designated place in Rockland County, New York, part of the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ metro area. It has 12,728 residents. Stony Point, New York has a quality-of-life score of 85 out of 100 (very high), ranking #2,288 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within New York it ranks #339 of 859 cities and towns. It ranks best on life expectancy (high), suicide rate (low) and public EV charging ports (high). It ranks worst on average commute time (high), effective property tax rate (high) and job growth (low).

85Very high

Quality-of-life score: #2,288 of 15,651 cities and towns
New York: #339 of 859 in NY
Population: 12,728 (2020-2024)
Land area: 6 mi²
Density: 2,162.0 /mi²
FIPS code: 3671663

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 73 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#724/15,637
Economy75#3,860/15,631
Housing1#14,862/14,977
Health96#612/15,609
Healthcare89#1,703/15,650
Environment74#3,956/15,453
Education61#6,112/15,649
Infrastructure69#4,777/15,650
Community77#3,672/15,651
Leisure & amenities78#3,442/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Life expectancy · high82.8 yrs
97/100New York 80.4 yrsUnited States 77.6 yrs2021-2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteRockland County value
Suicide rate · low5.9 /100k
97/100New York 8.5 /100kUnited States 14.1 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataRockland County value
Public EV charging ports · high22.2 /10k
97/100New York 10.8 /10kUnited States 7.6 /10kOct 2026U.S. Department of EnergyRockland County value
Injury deaths · low49 /100k
95/100New York 64 /100kUnited States 87 /100k2019-2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteRockland County value
Traffic deaths · low5.2 /100k
94/100New York 5.6 /100kUnited States 12.3 /100k2020-2024National Highway Traffic Safety AdministrationProvisional dataRockland County value
Premature death · low4,766 /100k
94/100New York 6,219 /100kUnited States 8,123 /100k2021-2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteRockland County value

Weaknesses

Average commute time · high35.2 min
1/100New York 32.6 minUnited States 26.4 min2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B08013
Effective property tax rate · high2.31%
3/100New York 1.30%United States 0.94%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25090
Job growth · low-4.1%
4/100New York -0.3%United States 0.1%2026 Q1U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsProvisional dataRockland County value
Rent-burdened households · high78.0%
5/100New York 52.1%United States 51.1%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25070
Time spent in the emergency room · high229 min
9/100New York 202 minUnited States 170 minOct 2024–Sep 2025Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesRockland County value
Rent as share of income · high48.0%
15/100New York 31.2%United States 30.6%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25071

Trends

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

Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
55.3% (2015-2019) → 78.0% (2020-2024)
+23 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Rent as share of incomeWorsening
32.2% (2015-2019) → 48.0% (2020-2024)
+16 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%
High school diploma or higherWorsening
93.5% (2015-2019) → 89.3% (2020-2024)
−4.2 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 88.0% → 89.6%
Median household incomeImproving
$107,012 (2015-2019) → $125,667 (2020-2024)
+17%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604
Home price to income ratioWorsening
3.5× (2015-2019) → 4.0× (2020-2024)
+17%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
Bachelor's degree or higherImproving
34.7% (2015-2019) → 37.1% (2020-2024)
+2.4 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 32.1% → 35.7%

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, Stony Point, New York improved on 1 of 14 measures with a comparison and declined on 2. 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

Household income+17%$107,012 → $125,667

Declined2

Rent / income+16 points32.2% → 48.0%
Rent burden+23 points55.3% → 78.0%

All 14 measures

Change of every measure of Stony Point, New York between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	33.3 min2015-2019	35.2 min2020-2024	+1.8 min	Within the margin of error	28%
Bachelor's degree or higher	34.7%2015-2019	37.1%2020-2024	+2.4 points	Within the margin of error	46%
Broadband subscriptions	91.3%2015-2019	92.7%2020-2024	+1.4 points	Within the margin of error	13%
Child poverty rate	7.4%2015-2019	6.0%2020-2024	−1.4 points	Within the margin of error	53%
Effective property tax rate	2.62%2015-2019	2.31%2020-2024	−0.3 points	Within the margin of error	76%
High school diploma or higher	93.5%2015-2019	89.3%2020-2024	−4.2 points	Within the margin of error	7%
Home price to income ratio	3.5×2015-2019	4.0×2020-2024	+0.6×	Within the margin of error	43%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.3852015-2019	0.3932020-2024	+0.008	Within the margin of error	43%
Median household income	$107,0122015-2019	$125,6672020-2024	+17%	Improved	28%
Poverty rate	5.7%2015-2019	4.9%2020-2024	−0.8 points	Within the margin of error	51%
Rent as share of income	32.2%2015-2019	48.0%2020-2024	+16 points	Declined	4%
Rent-burdened households	55.3%2015-2019	78.0%2020-2024	+23 points	Declined	6%
Unemployment rate	6.5%2015-2019	6.5%2020-2024	−0 points	Within the margin of error	50%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	3.5%2015-2019	2.3%2020-2024	−1.2 points	Within the margin of error	62%

“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 Stony Point, New York five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Stony Point, 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, Stony Point, New York itself moved −11.7 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

12,728 residents (±484)

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

4,136 households (±291)

Stony Point, New York
New York share

Under $25k9.6%†399
$25k–50k9.0%†373
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

4,136 households (±291)

Stony Point, New York
New York share

Own87%3,580
Rent13%556

No change since 2015–2019 is larger than the margin of error.

Table view

Getting to work

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

How people get to work

5,966 workers (±398)

Stony Point, New York
New York share

Drive alone79%4,701
Carpool7.3%†437
Public transit3.8%†

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 New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ

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 Rockland County, the county holding most of Stony Point's residents.

Rockland County has 11,094 employer establishments, 320 for every 10,000 residents (1.29× the US rate of 248; 1.17× New York's), with 128,380 paid employees at an average annual pay of $54,935. The Census Bureau also counts 35,055 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 11,094; 35,055 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 320; US 248 · New York 274
Paid employees: 128,380
Average annual pay: $54,935; US $68,342

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

Specialty trade contractors	864	24.9	1.61×More than typical	5,654	$74,220	1,442
Ambulatory health care services	857	24.7	1.19×About typical	14,046	$53,242	2,165
Restaurants and other eating places	710	20.5	1.12×About typical	7,563	$26,929	183
Lessors of real estate	637	18.4	1.49×More than typical	3,071	$57,041	5,397
Construction of buildings	480	13.9	1.83×More than typical	1,891	$66,650	889
Services to buildings and dwellings	442	12.8	1.89×More than typical	2,455	$50,598	1,518
Management, scientific and technical consulting	402	11.6	1.73×More than typical	1,517	$67,556	1,502
Building equipment contractors	349	10.1	1.67×More than typical	2,823	$73,866	308
Full-service restaurants	319	9.2	1.20×About typical	3,876	$29,659	101
Landscaping services	315	9.1	2.60×More than typical	1,288	$65,138	264
Offices of other health practitioners	313	9	1.49×More than typical	1,675	$57,687	1,276
Accounting, tax preparation and payroll services	293	8.5	2.08×More than typical	1,084	$50,127	652

Rank places for an industry Open Rockland County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 346,437 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 Stony Point, 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

3.8KFY2019
8.6KFY2021
3.2KFY2022
8KFY2023
10KFY2024

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

Stony Point, New York's figures are part of those of Rockland County, NY ($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: Stony Point is mostly in Rockland County.

See federal money in Rockland 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.

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

House

Michael LawlerR-NY-17 · 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.

Rockland County82100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ68

Other cities and towns in Rockland 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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