Village · Steuben County, New York

Wayland, New York

Wayland is a village in Steuben County, New York, part of the Corning, NY metro area. It has 2,007 residents. Wayland, New York has a quality-of-life score of 38 out of 100 (low), ranking #9,763 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within New York it ranks #800 of 859 cities and towns. It ranks best on home price to income ratio (low), students per teacher (low) and hot days (low). It ranks worst on effective property tax rate (high), average commute time (high) and new business applications (low).

38Low

Quality-of-life score: #9,763 of 15,651 cities and towns
New York: #800 of 859 in NY
Population: 2,007 (2020-2024)
Land area: 1 mi²
Density: 1,776.7 /mi²
FIPS code: 3678850

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 74 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.

Safety86#2,194/15,637
Economy44#8,716/15,631
Housing26#11,050/14,977
Health31#10,754/15,609
Healthcare30#10,918/15,650
Environment75#3,922/15,453
Education27#11,359/15,649
Infrastructure22#12,264/15,650
Community46#8,529/15,651
Leisure & amenities47#8,305/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Home price to income ratio · low1.3×
99/100New York 4.9×United States 4.1×2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25077
Students per teacher · low10.9×
94/100New York 12.0×United States 15.2×2024National Center for Education StatisticsSteuben County value
Hot days · low2 days
93/100New York 3 daysUnited States 42 days2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationSteuben County value
Public EV charging ports · high16.7 /10k
92/100New York 10.8 /10kUnited States 7.6 /10kOct 2026U.S. Department of EnergySteuben County value
Fine particulate matter (PM2.5) · low5.9 µg/m³
91/100New York 7.2 µg/m³United States 8.0 µg/m³2022Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Environmental Protection AgencySteuben County value
Unemployment rate · low1.3%
89/100New York 4.3%United States 4.3%2020-2024U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Census table B23025High uncertainty

Weaknesses

Effective property tax rate · high2.45%
2/100New York 1.30%United States 0.94%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25090
Average commute time · high29.5 min
3/100New York 32.6 minUnited States 26.4 min2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B08013
New business applications · low7.3 /1k
3/100New York 15.1 /1kUnited States 16.6 /1k2025U.S. Census BureauSteuben County value
Comfortable days · low22.7%
6/100New York 22.7%United States 26.8%2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationSteuben County value
Dental care shortage · high18.0
6/100New York 3.7United States 5.7Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationSteuben County value
Access to exercise opportunities · low52.0%
12/100New York 93.1%United States 84.5%2022 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteSteuben County value

Trends

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

PopulationRising
1,694 (2015-2019) → 2,007 (2020-2024)
+18%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Child poverty rateWorsening
15.1% (2015-2019) → 27.8% (2020-2024)
+13 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
81.7% (2015-2019) → 92.8% (2020-2024)
+11 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
49.2% (2015-2019) → 57.4% (2020-2024)
+8.1 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Median household incomeImproving
$54,875 (2015-2019) → $74,688 (2020-2024)
+36%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604
Uninsured residents (under 65)Worsening
2.4% (2015-2019) → 9.4% (2020-2024)
+7 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, Wayland, New York improved on 1 of 14 measures with a comparison and declined on 1. 12 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

Broadband+11 points81.7% → 92.8%

Declined1

Uninsured+7 points2.4% → 9.4%

All 14 measures

Change of every measure of Wayland, New York between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	28.4 min2015-2019	29.5 min2020-2024	+1.2 min	Within the margin of error	35%
Bachelor's degree or higher	16.7%2015-2019	15.3%2020-2024	−1.4 points	Within the margin of error	19%
Broadband subscriptions	81.7%2015-2019	92.8%2020-2024	+11 points	Improved	64%
Child poverty rate	15.1%2015-2019	27.8%2020-2024	+13 points	Within the margin of error	9%
Effective property tax rate	2.80%2015-2019	2.45%2020-2024	−0.4 points	Within the margin of error	80%
High school diploma or higher	87.8%2015-2019	90.5%2020-2024	+2.7 points	Within the margin of error	66%
Home price to income ratio	1.6×2015-2019	1.3×2020-2024	−0.3×	Within the margin of error	88%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.3702015-2019	0.3702020-2024	−0.000	Within the margin of error	51%
Median household income	$54,8752015-2019	$74,6882020-2024	+36%	Within the margin of error	67%
Poverty rate	12.3%2015-2019	17.0%2020-2024	+4.8 points	Within the margin of error	13%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent as share of income	29.7%2015-2019	32.2%2020-2024	+2.5 points	Within the margin of error	36%
Rent-burdened households	49.2%2015-2019	57.4%2020-2024	+8.1 points	Within the margin of error	28%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	2.4%2015-2019	9.4%2020-2024	+7 points	Declined	6%

“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 Wayland, New York five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Wayland, 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, Wayland, New York itself moved −2.5 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

2,007 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

718 households (±81)

Wayland, New York
New York share

Under $25k14%†101
$25k–50k22%†155
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

718 households (±81)

Wayland, New York
New York share

Own77%554
Rent23%164

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

814 workers (±148)

Wayland, New York
New York share

Drive alone73%597
Carpool12%†100
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 Corning, 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 Steuben County, the county holding most of Wayland's residents.

Steuben County has 1,749 employer establishments, 190 for every 10,000 residents (0.77× the US rate of 248; 0.69× New York's), with 26,364 paid employees at an average annual pay of $70,493. The Census Bureau also counts 5,653 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 1,749; 5,653 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 190; US 248 · New York 274
Paid employees: 26,364
Average annual pay: $70,493; US $68,342

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

Restaurants and other eating places	152	16.5	0.90×About typical	1,869	$23,576	18
Ambulatory health care services	102	11.1	0.53×Fewer than typical	1,484	$63,436	209
Specialty trade contractors	85	9.2	0.60×Fewer than typical	371	$68,518	495
Full-service restaurants	69	7.5	0.98×About typical	725	$26,254	5
Construction of buildings	68	7.4	0.98×About typical	217	$50,419	278
Automotive repair and maintenance	67	7.3	1.45×More than typical	351	$44,365	90
Limited-service restaurants	58	6.3	0.79×Fewer than typical	1,039	$21,501	7
Religious organizations	58	6.3	1.14×About typical	298	$25,094	—
Gasoline stations	50	5.4	1.67×More than typical	488	$29,760	3
Services to buildings and dwellings	44	4.8	0.71×Fewer than typical	171	$31,246	262
Truck transportation	40	4.3	0.86×About typical	311	$63,553	123
Banks and credit unions	39	4.2	1.31×More than typical	714	$60,744	—

Rank places for an industry Open Steuben County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 92,078 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 Wayland, New York: $0 per resident (US $1,995).

Obligations: $0
Per resident: $0; US $1,995
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

89.8KFY2017
35.9KFY2018
44.8KFY2019
5.4KFY2020
11KFY2021
-1KFY2022
7.2KFY2023
-0.8FY2024
-835FY2025

What was bought

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 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 Wayland, New York, so they do not add up across cities.

Wayland, New York's figures are part of those of Steuben County, NY ($65.7M 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: Wayland is mostly in Steuben County.

See federal money in Steuben 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.

Wayland, 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.

Steuben County74100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Corning, NY73

Other cities and towns in Steuben 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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