Census-designated place · Orange County, New York

West Point, New York

West Point is a census-designated place in Orange County, New York, part of the Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh, NY metro area. It has 6,349 residents. West Point, New York has a quality-of-life score of 93 out of 100 (very high), ranking #1,051 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within New York it ranks #198 of 859 cities and towns. It ranks best on bachelor's degree or higher (high), average commute time (low) and uninsured residents (under 65) (low). It ranks worst on rent-burdened households (high), preventable hospital stays (high) and high school diploma or higher (low).

93Very high

Quality-of-life score: #1,051 of 15,651 cities and towns
New York: #198 of 859 in NY
Population: 6,349 (2020-2024)
Land area: 18 mi²
Density: 344.4 /mi²
FIPS code: 3680747

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.

Safety85#2,326/15,637
Economy88#1,824/15,631
Housing—
Health91#1,416/15,609
Healthcare58#6,570/15,650
Environment90#1,500/15,453
Education84#2,547/15,649
Infrastructure99#226/15,650
Community42#9,065/15,651
Leisure & amenities65#5,520/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Bachelor's degree or higher · high78.8%
99/100New York 40.2%United States 35.7%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B15003
Average commute time · low10.1 min
98/100New York 32.6 minUnited States 26.4 min2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B08013
Uninsured residents (under 65) · low1.0%
97/100New York 5.9%United States 9.8%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B27010High uncertainty
Median Air Quality Index · low27
96/100New York 402025U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyOrange County value
Income inequality (Gini index) · low0.306
96/100New York 0.517United States 0.4832020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B19083
Suicide rate · low7.6 /100k
93/100New York 8.5 /100kUnited States 14.1 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataOrange County value

Weaknesses

Rent-burdened households · high59.5%
16/100New York 52.1%United States 51.1%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25070
Preventable hospital stays · high3,605 /100k
17/100New York 2,733 /100kUnited States 2,769 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteOrange County value
High school diploma or higher · low97.9%
18/100New York 88.0%United States 89.6%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B15003
Rent as share of income · high32.7%
19/100New York 31.2%United States 30.6%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25071
Social associations · low7.1 /10k
24/100New York 7.9 /10kUnited States 9.1 /10k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteOrange County value
Mental health care shortage · high17.0
24/100New York 4.8United States 9.9Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationOrange County value

Trends

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

Income inequality (Gini index)Worsening
0.258 (2015-2019) → 0.307 (2020-2024)
+19%5 yearsCensus table B19083US 0.482 → 0.483
Median household incomeImproving
$115,242 (2015-2019) → $135,333 (2020-2024)
+17%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604
Poverty rateWorsening
0.0% (2015-2019) → 3.2% (2020-2024)
+3.2 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 12.3% → 12.1%
Unemployment rateWorsening
1.1% (2015-2019) → 3.7% (2020-2024)
+2.6 pts5 yearsCensus table B23025US 3.7% → 4.0%
Bachelor's degree or higherImproving
76.8% (2015-2019) → 78.8% (2020-2024)
+2 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 32.1% → 35.7%
Broadband subscriptionsWorsening
98.9% (2015-2019) → 97.1% (2020-2024)
−1.7 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, West Point, New York improved on 1 of 8 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 7 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%$115,242 → $135,333

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 8 measures

Change of every measure of West Point, New York between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	9.6 min2015-2019	10.1 min2020-2024	+0.4 min	Within the margin of error	42%
Bachelor's degree or higher	76.8%2015-2019	78.8%2020-2024	+2 points	Within the margin of error	43%
Broadband subscriptions	98.9%2015-2019	97.1%2020-2024	−1.7 points	Within the margin of error	5%
High school diploma or higher	99.3%2015-2019	97.9%2020-2024	−1.4 points	Within the margin of error	19%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.2582015-2019	0.3072020-2024	+0.048	Within the margin of error	17%
Median household income	$115,2422015-2019	$135,3332020-2024	+17%	Improved	28%
Rent as share of income	32.0%2015-2019	32.7%2020-2024	+0.7 points	Within the margin of error	49%
Rent-burdened households	58.8%2015-2019	59.5%2020-2024	+0.6 points	Within the margin of error	53%

“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 West Point, New York five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of West 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, West Point, New York itself moved −2.1 points in standing on average over the same 8 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

6,349 residents (±508)

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

1,154 households (±157)

West Point, New York
New York share

Under $25k1.8%†21
$25k–50k6.9%†80
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

1,154 households (±157)

West Point, New York
New York share

Own0.7%†8
Rent99%1,146

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

3,499 workers (±454)

West Point, New York
New York share

Drive alone36%1,271
Carpool4.3%†152
Public transit0.3%†

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 Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh, 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 Orange County, the county holding most of West Point's residents.

Orange County has 10,467 employer establishments, 255 for every 10,000 residents (1.03× the US rate of 248; 0.93× New York's), with 129,093 paid employees at an average annual pay of $51,747. The Census Bureau also counts 34,392 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 10,467; 34,392 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 255; US 248 · New York 274
Paid employees: 129,093
Average annual pay: $51,747; US $68,342

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

Specialty trade contractors	907	22.1	1.43×More than typical	5,494	$71,315	1,958
Restaurants and other eating places	858	20.9	1.14×About typical	9,983	$24,735	231
Ambulatory health care services	668	16.3	0.78×Fewer than typical	11,026	$71,115	1,686
Construction of buildings	469	11.4	1.51×More than typical	1,975	$46,403	1,041
Lessors of real estate	411	10	0.81×About typical	1,158	$55,811	4,464
Full-service restaurants	397	9.7	1.26×More than typical	5,160	$26,891	107
Services to buildings and dwellings	360	8.8	1.30×More than typical	2,065	$42,314	1,414
Building equipment contractors	339	8.3	1.37×More than typical	2,726	$70,332	451
Limited-service restaurants	322	7.9	0.98×About typical	3,654	$21,884	89
Clothing and accessories stores	291	7.1	1.96×More than typical	4,672	$33,453	341
Personal care services	274	6.7	1.40×More than typical	1,103	$23,573	1,039
Automotive repair and maintenance	265	6.5	1.28×More than typical	1,514	$49,087	263

Rank places for an industry Open Orange County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 410,179 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 $126.2M of federal contract obligations were for work performed in West Point, New York: $19,883 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $126.2M; −50% vs FY2025
Per resident: $19,883; US $1,994
Sole-source: 12%; US 30%
Single offer: 4.6%; 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

Department of the Army$113.2M90%
Defense Logistics Agency$4.4M3.5%
Department of Defense Education Activity$4.4M3.5%
United States Mint$2.5M2.0%
Defense Commissary Agency$1.3M1.0%
Defense Information Systems Agency$315.7K0.3%
Federal Prison Industries / Unicor$15.6K0.0%

Top recipients

STV HDR USMA JOINT VENTURE$28.5M23%
AKIMA FACILITIES OPERATIONS LLC$6.4M5.1%
RICE SERVICES, INC.$6.2M4.9%
ACCESS: SUPPORTS FOR LIVING INC.$5.3M4.2%
AMERICAN WATER MILITARY SERVICES, LLC$4.9M3.9%

Spending by fiscal year

852.4MFY2017
234.5MFY2018
281.9MFY2019
240.2MFY2020
382.7MFY2021
299.2MFY2022
379.3MFY2023
368M

Top industries (NAICS)

Architectural, engineering, and related services · 5413$29.5M23%
Nonresidential building construction · 2362$27.5M22%
Facilities support services · 5612$10.1M8.0%
Special food services · 7223$8.1M6.4%
Water, sewage and other systems · 2213$4.9M3.9%
Management, scientific, and technical consulting services · 5416

Largest awards whose ZIP code lies mostly in West Point, New York

PARKING STRUCTURE FUNDED$211.7M
DOBCO INC· Orange County, NY· Construction & real property· Dec 4, 2020 – May 18, 2026· W912DS21C0002
THIS CONTRACT IS AWARDED FOR THE OWNERSHIP, OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE OF THE WATER AND WASTEWATER UTILITY SYSTEMS AT U.S. ARMY GARRISON WEST POINT, NEW YORK.$163M
AMERICAN WATER MILITARY SERVICES, LLC· Orange County, NY· Facilities & utilities· Sep 30, 2019 – Dec 2, 2025· SP060019C8327
THIS CONTRACT IS AWARDED FOR THE OWNERSHIP, OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE OF THE ELECTRIC DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM AT U.S. ARMY GARRISON WEST POINT, NY.$95.3M
CITY LIGHT & POWER AWP, LLC· Orange County, NY· Facilities & utilities· Sep 29, 2017 – Jun 8, 2026· SP060017C8326

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

West Point, New York's figures are part of those of Orange County, NY ($142.2M in FY2026), never added to them: 89% of that total.

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

See federal money in Orange 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.

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

House

Patrick RyanD-NY-18 · 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.

Orange County76100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh, NY81

Other cities and towns in Orange 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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