Metro area · New York

Glens Falls, NY metro area

Glens Falls, NY is a metropolitan area of 2 counties in New York, home to 124,373 residents. Glens Falls, NY metro area has a quality-of-life score of 88 out of 100 (very high), ranking #110 of 925 US metro and micro areas. Among metro and micro areas based in New York it ranks #4 of 27. It ranks best on public EV charging ports (high), pharmacies (high) and arts, entertainment and recreation (high). It ranks worst on comfortable days (low), effective property tax rate (high) and child care cost burden (high).

88Very high
Quality-of-life score
#110 of 925 metro and micro areas
New York
#4 of 27 in NY
Population
124,373 (2025)
Land area
1,698 mi²
Density
73.2 /mi²
CBSA code
24020

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 67 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Location of Glens Falls, NY metro area

Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US metro and micro areas.

  • Safety96#35/924
  • Economy73#250/925
  • Housing31#642/925
  • Health89#106/925
  • Healthcare79#191/923
  • Environment81#178/917
  • Education61#357/925
  • Infrastructure65#320/925
  • Community85#138/925
  • Leisure & amenities90#92/925

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Glens Falls, NY metro area ranks highest and lowest among US metro and micro areas (score = percentile, 100 = best).

Strengths

Weaknesses

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.

Metro and micro areas like Glens Falls, NY metro area five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Glens Falls, NY metro area 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.

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).

Income

How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.

Homes

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

Getting to work

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

Jobs and pay

What the largest occupations here pay, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

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.

Federal contract spending

Federal grants & assistance

Grants, loans (counted at their subsidy cost), direct payments and insurance, by fiscal year of the action (USAspending.gov, FABS). Reported apart from contracts and never added to them.

Counties in Glens Falls, NY

Whole counties, as the U.S. Office of Management and Budget delineates the area. Federal spending below is the exact sum of these counties.

  1. Warren CountyCentral county9565,020
  2. Washington CountyCentral county6459,353

Principal cities

The cities the area is named for.

  1. Glens FallsPrincipal city14,609

Largest cities and towns

By population, for places with most of their residents in the area.

  1. Glens Falls14,609
  2. West Glens Falls10,050
  3. Glens Falls North9,154
  4. Hudson Falls7,395
  5. Warrensburg3,194
  6. Fort Edward3,152
  7. Whitehall2,690
  8. Granville2,310
  9. Cambridge2,262
  10. Greenwich1,689
  11. Lake George1,038
  12. Lake Luzerne907
  13. Salem770
  14. North Granville531
  15. Chestertown499
  16. Fort Ann436
  17. North Creek414
  18. Argyle355
  19. Bolton Landing216
  20. Pottersville140

Other metro and micro areas in New York

Areas based in New York, best score first.

Neighboring metro and micro areas

Places that share a border, best score first.

Similar metro and micro areas

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.

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