Census-designated place · Ulster County, New York

Wallkill, New York

Wallkill is a census-designated place in Ulster County, New York, part of the Kingston, NY metro area. It has 1,355 residents. Wallkill, New York has a quality-of-life score of 74 out of 100 (high), ranking #4,054 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within New York it ranks #449 of 859 cities and towns. It ranks best on public EV charging ports (high), job growth (high) and arts, entertainment and recreation (high). It ranks worst on hospital quality rating (low), average commute time (high) and effective property tax rate (high).

74High

Quality-of-life score: #4,054 of 15,651 cities and towns
New York: #449 of 859 in NY
Population: 1,355 (2020-2024)
Land area: 3 mi²
Density: 441.8 /mi²
FIPS code: 3678003

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 71 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#1,347/15,637
Economy56#6,900/15,631
Housing7#13,917/14,977
Health78#3,484/15,609
Healthcare56#6,934/15,650
Environment89#1,673/15,453
Education61#6,123/15,649
Infrastructure62#6,018/15,650
Community53#7,288/15,651
Leisure & amenities93#1,016/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Public EV charging ports · high26.5 /10k
98/100New York 10.8 /10kUnited States 7.6 /10kOct 2026U.S. Department of EnergyUlster County value
Job growth · high3.5%
95/100New York -0.3%United States 0.1%2026 Q1U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsProvisional dataUlster County value
Arts, entertainment and recreation · high10.3 /10k
95/100New York 7.5 /10kUnited States 5.5 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsUlster County value
Students per teacher · low10.9×
94/100New York 12.0×United States 15.2×2024National Center for Education StatisticsUlster County value
Broadband subscriptions · high98.8%
94/100New York 90.8%United States 91.0%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B28002
Restaurants and bars · high13.7 /10k
93/100New York 11.3 /10kUnited States 9.0 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsUlster County value

Weaknesses

Hospital quality rating · low1.0
1/100New York 2.8United States 3.2Jul 2026Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesUlster County value
Average commute time · high26.8 min
3/100New York 32.6 minUnited States 26.4 min2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B08013
Effective property tax rate · high1.84%
11/100New York 1.30%United States 0.94%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25090
Rent as share of income · high37.2%
18/100New York 31.2%United States 30.6%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25071
High school diploma or higher · low91.3%
19/100New York 88.0%United States 89.6%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B15003
Rent-burdened households · high75.1%
20/100New York 52.1%United States 51.1%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25070

Trends

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

PopulationFalling
2,017 (2015-2019) → 1,355 (2020-2024)
−33%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
41.7% (2015-2019) → 75.1% (2020-2024)
+33 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Bachelor's degree or higherImproving
18.7% (2015-2019) → 32.3% (2020-2024)
+14 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 32.1% → 35.7%
Rent as share of incomeWorsening
23.7% (2015-2019) → 37.2% (2020-2024)
+14 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%
Median household incomeImproving
$63,738 (2015-2019) → $103,571 (2020-2024)
+62%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
91.2% (2015-2019) → 98.8% (2020-2024)
+7.6 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%

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, Wallkill, New York improved on 2 of 12 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 10 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.

Improved2

Bachelor's++14 points18.7% → 32.3%
Broadband+7.6 points91.2% → 98.8%

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 12 measures

Change of every measure of Wallkill, New York between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	34.3 min2015-2019	26.8 min2020-2024	−7.4 min	Within the margin of error	96%
Bachelor's degree or higher	18.7%2015-2019	32.3%2020-2024	+14 points	Improved	96%
Broadband subscriptions	91.2%2015-2019	98.8%2020-2024	+7.6 points	Improved	47%
Child poverty rate	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	42%
Effective property tax rate	2.26%2015-2019	1.84%2020-2024	−0.4 points	Within the margin of error	85%
High school diploma or higher	86.0%2015-2019	91.3%2020-2024	+5.4 points	Within the margin of error	83%
Home price to income ratio	3.6×2015-2019	3.3×2020-2024	−0.3×	Within the margin of error	88%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.3672015-2019	0.4112020-2024	+0.044	Within the margin of error	19%
Median household income	$63,7382015-2019	$103,5712020-2024	+62%	Within the margin of error	92%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent as share of income	23.7%2015-2019	37.2%2020-2024	+14 points	Within the margin of error	6%
Rent-burdened households	41.7%2015-2019	75.1%2020-2024	+33 points	Within the margin of error	2%

“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 Wallkill, New York five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Wallkill, 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, Wallkill, New York itself moved −4.1 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

1,355 residents (±281)

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

662 households (±128)

Wallkill, New York
New York share

Under $25k16%†107
$25k–50k13%†87
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

662 households (±128)

Wallkill, New York
New York share

Own66%436
Rent34%†226

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

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

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Getting to work

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

How people get to work

800 workers (±204)

Wallkill, New York
New York share

Drive alone95%757
Carpool0.3%†2
Public transit0.0%0

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 Kingston, 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 Ulster County, the county holding most of Wallkill's residents.

Ulster County has 5,065 employer establishments, 277 for every 10,000 residents (1.11× the US rate of 248; 1.01× New York's), with 44,452 paid employees at an average annual pay of $47,892. The Census Bureau also counts 19,960 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 5,065; 19,960 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 277; US 248 · New York 274
Paid employees: 44,452
Average annual pay: $47,892; US $68,342

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

Restaurants and other eating places	474	25.9	1.41×More than typical	5,049	$26,990	78
Specialty trade contractors	392	21.4	1.38×More than typical	1,696	$66,443	1,393
Ambulatory health care services	314	17.2	0.82×About typical	2,728	$67,559	1,131
Full-service restaurants	256	14	1.82×More than typical	3,093	$29,993	37
Construction of buildings	237	13	1.71×More than typical	790	$54,222	668
Services to buildings and dwellings	203	11.1	1.65×More than typical	673	$42,921	996
Lessors of real estate	169	9.2	0.75×Fewer than typical	422	$50,294	2,210
Limited-service restaurants	156	8.5	1.06×About typical	1,538	$21,846	27
Building equipment contractors	154	8.4	1.40×More than typical	948	$70,828	285
Landscaping services	143	7.8	2.23×More than typical	415	$44,639	408
Offices of other health practitioners	141	7.7	1.27×More than typical	511	$42,904	800
Automotive repair and maintenance	125	6.8	1.36×More than typical	567	$41,034	142

Rank places for an industry Open Ulster County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 182,956 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 $7,147 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Wallkill, New York: $5.27 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $7,147; +23,402% vs FY2025
Per resident: $5.27; 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

Environmental Protection Agency$7,299100%

Top recipients

ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION LLC$7,299100%
IRON SWORD ENTERPRISES, LLC-$1520.0%

Spending by fiscal year

57.6KFY2017
502.6FY2018
21.2KFY2019
27.4KFY2020
105.6KFY2021
4KFY2022
58.7KFY2023
1.3KFY2024

Top industries (NAICS)

Remediation and other waste management services · 5629$7,299100%

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

Wallkill, New York's figures are part of those of Ulster County, NY ($7.3M in FY2026), never added to them: 0.1% of that total.

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

See federal money in Ulster 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.

Wallkill, New York is split between congressional districts: each representative is shown with the share of its residents in their district (current boundaries).

House

Senate

County

A city can lie in several counties. Some indicators are published for counties only: the page marks them.

Ulster County90100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Kingston, NY90

Other cities and towns in Ulster 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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