Village · Oneida County, New York

Whitesboro, New York

Whitesboro is a village in Oneida County, New York, part of the Utica-Rome, NY metro area. It has 3,633 residents. Whitesboro, New York has a quality-of-life score of 35 out of 100 (low), ranking #10,192 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within New York it ranks #813 of 859 cities and towns. It ranks best on median Air Quality Index (low), hot days (low) and distance to an Amtrak station (low). It ranks worst on comfortable days (low), new business applications (low) and effective property tax rate (high).

35Low

Quality-of-life score: #10,192 of 15,651 cities and towns
New York: #813 of 859 in NY
Population: 3,633 (2020-2024)
Land area: 1 mi²
Density: 3,461.4 /mi²
FIPS code: 3681710

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.

Safety65#5,525/15,637
Economy10#14,064/15,631
Housing11#13,322/14,977
Health43#8,847/15,609
Healthcare39#9,491/15,650
Environment98#331/15,453
Education31#10,824/15,649
Infrastructure17#12,916/15,650
Community46#8,432/15,651
Leisure & amenities61#6,153/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Median Air Quality Index · low27
96/100New York 402025U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyOneida County value
Hot days · low1 days
95/100New York 3 daysUnited States 42 days2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationOneida County value
Distance to an Amtrak station · low6 mi
93/100New York 13 miUnited States 43 mi2026Federal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census BureauOneida County value
Public EV charging ports · high16.6 /10k
92/100New York 10.8 /10kUnited States 7.6 /10kOct 2026U.S. Department of EnergyOneida County value
Fine particulate matter (PM2.5) · low6.0 µg/m³
89/100New York 7.2 µg/m³United States 8.0 µg/m³2022Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyOneida County value
Mammography screening · high54.0%
88/100New York 46.0%United States 46.0%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteOneida County value

Weaknesses

Comfortable days · low21.7%
2/100New York 22.7%United States 26.8%2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationOneida County value
New business applications · low7.6 /1k
5/100New York 15.1 /1kUnited States 16.6 /1k2025U.S. Census BureauOneida County value
Effective property tax rate · high2.08%
6/100New York 1.30%United States 0.94%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25090
Primary care shortage · high17.0
9/100New York 5.7United States 6.2Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationOneida County value
Hospital quality rating · low2.0
9/100New York 2.8United States 3.2Jul 2026Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesOneida County value
Child care cost burden · high39.8%
9/100New York 37.7%United States 27.9%2023 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteOneida County value

Trends

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

Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
35.0% (2015-2019) → 58.4% (2020-2024)
+23 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Home price to income ratioWorsening
2.0× (2015-2019) → 3.5× (2020-2024)
+72%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
Bachelor's degree or higherWorsening
31.0% (2015-2019) → 20.8% (2020-2024)
−10 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 32.1% → 35.7%
Rent as share of incomeWorsening
25.0% (2015-2019) → 31.8% (2020-2024)
+6.8 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%
Poverty rateWorsening
16.6% (2015-2019) → 22.8% (2020-2024)
+6.2 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 12.3% → 12.1%
Child poverty rateWorsening
26.4% (2015-2019) → 32.2% (2020-2024)
+5.8 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%

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, Whitesboro, New York improved on 0 of 12 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.

Improved0

No measure improved by more than its margin of error.

Declined1

Price / income+1.5×2.0× → 3.5×

All 12 measures

Change of every measure of Whitesboro, New York between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	14.8 min2015-2019	16.3 min2020-2024	+1.5 min	Within the margin of error	31%
Bachelor's degree or higher	31.0%2015-2019	20.8%2020-2024	−10 points	Within the margin of error	2%
Broadband subscriptions	78.7%2015-2019	84.1%2020-2024	+5.4 points	Within the margin of error	34%
Child poverty rate	26.4%2015-2019	32.2%2020-2024	+5.8 points	Within the margin of error	18%
Effective property tax rate	2.13%2015-2019	2.08%2020-2024	−0.1 points	Within the margin of error	26%
High school diploma or higher	93.2%2015-2019	88.8%2020-2024	−4.5 points	Within the margin of error	7%
Home price to income ratio	2.0×2015-2019	3.5×2020-2024	+1.5×	Declined	10%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4372015-2019	0.4312020-2024	−0.006	Within the margin of error	56%
Median household income	$45,7642015-2019	$45,9342020-2024	+0.4%	Within the margin of error	8%
Poverty rate	16.6%2015-2019	22.8%2020-2024	+6.2 points	Within the margin of error	10%
Rent as share of income	25.0%2015-2019	31.8%2020-2024	+6.8 points	Within the margin of error	16%
Rent-burdened households	35.0%2015-2019	58.4%2020-2024	+23 points	Within the margin of error	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 Whitesboro, New York five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Whitesboro, 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, Whitesboro, New York itself moved −25.1 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

3,633 residents (±21)

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

1,808 households (±159)

Whitesboro, New York
New York share

Under $25k18%†331
$25k–50k41%†745
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

1,808 households (±159)

Whitesboro, New York
New York share

Own46%839
Rent54%969

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

1,899 workers (±215)

Whitesboro, New York
New York share

Drive alone92%1,749
Carpool0.0%0
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 Utica-Rome, 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 Oneida County, the county holding most of Whitesboro's residents.

Oneida County has 4,713 employer establishments, 207 for every 10,000 residents (0.83× the US rate of 248; 0.76× New York's), with 85,570 paid employees at an average annual pay of $53,368. The Census Bureau also counts 14,272 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 4,713; 14,272 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 207; US 248 · New York 274
Paid employees: 85,570
Average annual pay: $53,368; US $68,342

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

Restaurants and other eating places	425	18.7	1.02×About typical	6,288	$21,110	74
Ambulatory health care services	393	17.3	0.83×About typical	4,729	$67,390	567
Specialty trade contractors	275	12.1	0.78×Fewer than typical	1,643	$70,091	882
Full-service restaurants	198	8.7	1.13×About typical	3,015	$22,977	25
Limited-service restaurants	166	7.3	0.91×About typical	2,504	$19,608	38
Construction of buildings	147	6.5	0.85×About typical	494	$54,379	458
Offices of physicians	146	6.4	0.99×About typical	1,923	$88,443	138
Automotive repair and maintenance	145	6.4	1.27×More than typical	719	$48,259	236
Religious organizations	130	5.7	1.03×About typical	669	$18,656	—
Services to buildings and dwellings	125	5.5	0.81×About typical	476	$34,691	613
Lessors of real estate	116	5.1	0.41×Fewer than typical	304	$39,609	1,279
Insurance agencies and brokerages	110	4.8	1.10×About typical	492	$71,823	216

Rank places for an industry Open Oneida County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 227,555 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 $3,361 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Whitesboro, New York: $0.93 per resident (US $1,995).

Obligations: $3,361
Per resident: $0.93; US $1,995
Sole-source: 100%; 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

Department of the Navy$3,361100%

Top recipients

ONEIDA RESEARCH SERVICES, INC.$3,361100%

Spending by fiscal year

17.9KFY2017
5.8KFY2018
-247.5FY2019
2.1KFY2020
57.1KFY2021
-623.4FY2022
3.4KFY2023
3KFY2024

Top industries (NAICS)

Electronic and precision equipment repair and maintenance · 8112$3,361100%

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 7, 2026, loaded Oct 7, 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 Whitesboro, New York, so they do not add up across cities.

Whitesboro, New York's figures are part of those of Oneida County, NY ($500.6M 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: Whitesboro is mostly in Oneida County.

See federal money in Oneida 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.

Whitesboro, 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.

Oneida County76100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Utica-Rome, NY82

Other cities and towns in Oneida 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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