Census-designated place · Rockland County, New York

Viola, New York

Viola is a census-designated place in Rockland County, New York, part of the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ metro area. It has 8,461 residents. Viola, New York has a quality-of-life score of 64 out of 100 (high), ranking #5,566 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within New York it ranks #561 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 income inequality (Gini index) (high), rent as share of income (high) and home price to income ratio (high).

64High

Quality-of-life score: #5,566 of 15,651 cities and towns
New York: #561 of 859 in NY
Population: 8,461 (2020-2024)
Land area: 3 mi²
Density: 3,060.9 /mi²
FIPS code: 3677574

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
Economy24#11,817/15,631
Housing0#14,968/14,977
Health79#3,271/15,609
Healthcare88#1,927/15,650
Environment74#3,956/15,453
Education58#6,563/15,649
Infrastructure15#13,247/15,650
Community76#3,696/15,651
Leisure & amenities78#3,442/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Viola, 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

Income inequality (Gini index) · high0.532
2/100New York 0.517United States 0.4832020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B19083
Rent as share of income · high51.0%
2/100New York 31.2%United States 30.6%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25071At least this value: the publisher's top bracket is open-ended
Home price to income ratio · high12.4×
2/100New York 4.9×United States 4.1×2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25077
Average commute time · high28.7 min
3/100New York 32.6 minUnited States 26.4 min2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B08013
Job growth · low-4.1%
4/100New York -0.3%United States 0.1%2026 Q1U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsProvisional dataRockland County value
Unemployment rate · high10.7%
8/100New York 4.3%United States 4.3%2020-2024U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Census table B23025High uncertainty

Trends

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

PopulationRising
6,898 (2015-2019) → 8,461 (2020-2024)
+23%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Uninsured residents (under 65)Improving
17.2% (2015-2019) → 3.1% (2020-2024)
−14 pts5 yearsCensus table B27010US 10.8% → 9.8%
Rent as share of incomeWorsening
37.0% (2015-2019) → 51.0% (2020-2024)
+14 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%
Bachelor's degree or higherWorsening
45.7% (2015-2019) → 37.2% (2020-2024)
−8.4 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 32.1% → 35.7%
Child poverty rateImproving
32.0% (2015-2019) → 24.9% (2020-2024)
−7.1 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Home price to income ratioWorsening
9.6× (2015-2019) → 12.4× (2020-2024)
+29%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×

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, Viola, New York improved on 1 of 13 measures with a comparison and declined on 1. 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

Uninsured−14 points17.2% → 3.1%

Declined1

Rent / income+14 points37.0% → 51.0%

All 13 measures

Change of every measure of Viola, New York between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	33.8 min2015-2019	28.7 min2020-2024	−5.1 min	Within the margin of error	91%
Bachelor's degree or higher	45.7%2015-2019	37.2%2020-2024	−8.4 points	Within the margin of error	3%
Broadband subscriptions	71.5%2015-2019	73.5%2020-2024	+2 points	Within the margin of error	15%
Child poverty rate	32.0%2015-2019	24.9%2020-2024	−7.1 points	Within the margin of error	75%
Effective property tax rate	1.78%2015-2019	1.66%2020-2024	−0.1 points	Within the margin of error	40%
High school diploma or higher	89.3%2015-2019	85.0%2020-2024	−4.2 points	Within the margin of error	7%
Home price to income ratio	9.6×2015-2019	12.4×2020-2024	+2.8×	Within the margin of error	1%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.5082015-2019	0.5322020-2024	+0.024	Within the margin of error	31%
Median household income	$70,6252015-2019	$83,9132020-2024	+19%	Within the margin of error	31%
Poverty rate	17.8%2015-2019	20.7%2020-2024	+2.8 points	Within the margin of error	21%
Rent as share of income	37.0%2015-2019	51.0%2020-2024	+14 points	Declined	5%
Rent-burdened households	69.3%2015-2019	67.4%2020-2024	−1.9 points	Within the margin of error	63%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	17.2%2015-2019	3.1%2020-2024	−14 points	Improved	99%

“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 Viola, New York five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Viola, 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, Viola, New York itself moved −6 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

8,461 residents (±1,615)

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

2,406 households (±366)

Viola, New York
New York share

Under $25k21%†512
$25k–50k15%†372
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

2,406 households (±366)

Viola, New York
New York share

Own60%1,432
Rent40%974

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: Own (+14.0 points).

Table view

Getting to work

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

How people get to work

2,817 workers (±667)

Viola, New York
New York share

Drive alone62%†1,750
Carpool4.0%†112
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 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 Viola'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 $41.9K of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Viola, New York: $4.95 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $41.9K; −76% vs FY2025
Per resident: $4.95; US $1,994
Sole-source: 6.2%; US 30%
Single offer: 26%; 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

Federal Acquisition Service$17.4K42%
Department of Veterans Affairs$10.9K26%
Department of the Army$3,9469.4%
Department of the Air Force$3,2277.7%
Department of the Navy$2,6136.2%
Defense Logistics Agency$1,7874.3%
Bureau of Land Management$1,1732.8%
Defense Information Systems Agency$8562.0%

Top recipients

CULINARY DEPOT INC.$13.6K32%
NADLER MOBILE, LLC$11K26%
BLUE CHIP MEDICAL PRODUCTS, INC.$10.6K25%
901 D LLC$4,54711%
TRI STATE FORWARDING INC$1,1732.8%

Spending by fiscal year

397.1KFY2017
533.7KFY2018
1.1MFY2019
906.1KFY2020
495.5KFY2021
365.9KFY2022
331.2KFY2023
307.5K

Top industries (NAICS)

Beverage manufacturing · 3121$13.6K32%
Architectural and structural metals manufacturing · 3323$11K26%
Medical equipment and supplies manufacturing · 3391$10.6K25%
Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturing · 3345$2,9387.0%
Hardware manufacturing · 3325$1,6093.8%
Boiler, tank, and shipping container manufacturing · 3324$1,173

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

Viola, New York's figures are part of those of Rockland County, NY ($2M in FY2026), never added to them: 2.1% of that total.

Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: Viola 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.

Viola, 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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Scores by category

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