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Monroe County / Rochester, NY

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Monroe County is Rochester and the towns around it, about 755,000 people on the south shore of Lake Ontario. The Strong, downtown, keeps the world's largest collection of historical materials about play.

Live Music: 34: Thirty-four live music venues, a count only 59 counties in the country beat. George Eastman founded the Eastman School of Music downtown in 1921. >98% of 3,143 counties
Park Score: 89%⁹: Nine residents in ten live within a ten-minute walk of a park. Highland Park, which Frederick Law Olmsted designed to read as natural woodland, is a planted arboretum. >93% of 1,479 counties
Snow: 64": Sixty-four inches of snow falls in an average year. The county's winter program pays for snow fence installation along county highways, as well as for salting and snow removal. >93% of 3,143 counties
Minor League Baseball: 0h 02m: Only one county in the country sits closer to a minor-league ballpark. The Rochester Red Wings play at a downtown ground opened in 1997. <99% of 3,035 counties
The trade-off — Property Tax: 3.16%: The median home costs $245K and the average property tax rate is 3.16%, a rate only five counties in the country beat. Typical household income here is $68K. >99% of 3,143 counties

Monroe County is a county in the Finger Lakes region of New York State. The county is along Lake Ontario's southern shore. As of 2020, Monroe County's population was 759,443, an increase since the 2010 census. Its county seat and largest city is the city of Rochester.

Demographics and county data

Each comparison is against the US counties that publish the same measurement. Measurements where too many counties share a single value to be ranked show no comparison at all.

Abortion Regulation: Legal (Restricted)
ACT/SAT Scores: #30
Air Quality: 6.3¹
Alcohol Regulation: #31
All Occupations: $61K¹
American Indians/Alaskan Natives: ↓-1.7%
Amish, Mennonites, etc: ↓-2.2%⁷
Any Airport: 0h 08m
Any Natural Disaster: Low³
Architecture & Engineering: $94K¹⁰
Art Museums: 2
Arts, Design, Sports, Media & Entertainment: $96K¹⁰
Asian Americans: ↑2.2%
Asian Language Speakers: ↑1.4%
Avalanche: none³
Average School Rating: 42.0⁶
Beergardens & Brewpubs: 11
Bike Score: 60
Blacks/African Americans: ↑5.3%
Boating: 127
Broadband Internet: 84%
Buddhists: ↑0.2%⁷
Building & Grounds Cleaning & Maintenance: $43K¹⁰
Business & Financial Operations: $107K¹⁰
Cannabis Regulation: Legal
Cat Friendly Rentals: 37%
Catholics: ↑12.0%⁷
City Population: 211K
Climate Change Risk: 2.7
Coastal Flooding: none³
Cold Wave: Medium³
Community & Social Service: $63K¹⁰
Commute Time: 21
Computer & Mathematical: $117K¹⁰
Construction & Extraction: $72K¹⁰
County Population: 755K
Cuisine Diversity: 38
Cycling: 13
Dentists: 8.6
Dog Friendly Rentals: 36%
Drought: Low³
Earthquakes: Low³
Education, Training, & Library: $79K¹⁰
Educational Attainment: 33%
Elevation: 400'⁸
English Speakers: ↓-2.2%
Farmers Markets: 17
Farming, Fishing, & Forestry: $41K¹⁰
Fatal Dog Attacks: 0
Fatal Wildlife Attacks: 0
Financial Relocation Incentives: $19,000
Fire Ants: none
Fishing: 44
Food Preparation & Serving Related: $41K¹⁰
Forests: 26%
Freshwater Access: 171
Gluten-Free Options: 10
Golf: 54
Gun Open Carry Regulation: Illegal
Hail: Low³
Healthcare Practitioners & Technical: $111K¹⁰
Healthcare Support: $38K¹⁰
Heat Wave: Medium³
High School Graduation Rate: 83%¹
Hiking: 150
Hindus: ↑0.0%⁷
Hispanics/Latinos: ↓-0.5%
History Museums: 4
Home Ownership Rate: 64%
Homelessness: 69
Homicide Rate: 6¹
Hospitals: 4
Hurricanes: Low³
Ice Storms: High³
Indo-European Language Speakers: ↑2.9%
Installation, Maintenance, & Repair: $61K¹⁰
Investment Potential: 97 / 100
Jehovah's Witnesses: ↓-0.5%⁷
Jews: ↑0.9%⁷
Landslide: Low³
LDS / Mormons: ↓-1.7%⁷
Legal: $155K¹⁰
Life Expectancy: 80¹
Life, Physical, & Social Science: $88K¹⁰
Lightning: Medium³
Live Music: 34
Major Airport: 1h 13m
Major City Proximity: Major City
Major League Baseball: 2h 58m
Major League Soccer: 2h 56m
Management: $170K¹⁰
Median Age: 39 years¹¹
Median Home Price: $245K⁴
Median Rental - 1 BR Apartment: $1,156
Median Rental - 2 BR Apartment: $1,422
Median Rental - 3 BR Apartment: $1,740
Median Rental - 4 BR Apartment: $1,961
Median Rental - Room: $668
Median Rental - Single Family Home: $1,708⁴
Median Rental - Studio Apartment: $1,037
Mental Health Providers: 29.4
Meth Labs: 0
Michelin Rated Restaurants: none
Minor League Baseball: 0h 02m
Mountains: 896'⁸
Multiracials: ↑0.4%
Muslims: ↑1.0%⁷
National Parks: 4h 45m
Native Hawaiians/Pacific Islanders: ↓-0.1%
NBA Basketball: 2h 59m
NFL Football: 1h 31m
NHL Hockey: 1h 24m
Not Religious / Atheists / Agnostics: ↑8.0%
Nuclear Strike: No Fallout
Obesity Rate: 31%¹
Office & Administrative Support: $53K¹⁰
Orthodox Christians: ↓-0.2%⁷
Other Language Speakers: ↑0.6%
Other Relocation Incentives: none
Park Score: 89%
People 0-9 Years Old: ↓-0.7%
People 10-19 Years Old: ↓-0.0%
People 20-29 Years Old: ↑2.2%
People 30-39 Years Old: ↑1.0%
People 40-49 Years Old: ↓-0.2%
People 50-59 Years Old: ↑0.1%
People 60-69 Years Old: ↓-1.0%
People 70-79 Years Old: ↓-1.2%
People 80+ Years Old: ↓-0.1%
Performing Arts: 1
Personal Care & Service: $44K¹⁰
Political Orientation: 73% Dems
Population Density: 1,156
Population Growth: ↓-0.5%
Poverty Rate: 13.9%
Primary Care Physicians: 10.6¹
Private/Home School Regulation: #15
Production: $48K¹⁰
Property Crime Rate: 3,471
Property Tax: 3.16%
Protective Service: $61K¹⁰
Protestants / Non-Denominationals: ↓-16.6%⁷
Rain: 32"
Regional Theatre: 2
River Flooding: Medium³
Sales & Related: $67K¹⁰
Sales Tax: 8.0%
Same Sex Households: ↑0.2%
Scenic Beauty: #17
Seacoast Proximity: 6h 08m
Seasons: 50 °F
Shark Attacks: 0
Single Parent Households: ↑8.2%
Skiing: 0h 50m
Small or Major Airport: 0h 08m
Smokers: 18%¹
Snow: 64"
Spanish Speakers: ↓-0.5%
State Income Tax: 8.8%
Strong Wind: Medium³
Summer Heat: 81 °F
Summer Mugginess: Sticky
Sunny Days: 165
Termite Infestation: Light
Tobacco Regulation: #2
Top School Rating: 87.3⁶
Tornadoes: Medium³
Traffic: 1.06M
Transit Score: 41
Transportation & Material Moving: $51K¹⁰
Tsunami: none³
Typical Expenses: $84K⁵
Typical Expenses: $94K⁵
Typical Expenses: $143K⁵
Typical Expenses: $84K⁵
Typical Expenses: $74K⁵
Typical Expenses: $112K⁵
Typical Expenses: $147K⁵
Typical Expenses: $62K⁵
Typical Expenses: $62K⁵
Typical Expenses: $87K⁵
Typical Expenses: $45K⁵
Typical Expenses: $122K⁵
Unemployment Rate: 8.6%¹
Vegetarian Friendliness: 13
Violent Crime Rate: 326²
Volcanic Activity: none³
Walk Score: 61
Water Quality: 1/4
Whites: ↓-5.8%
Wildfires: Very Low³
Windiness: 17 mph
Wineries: 5
Winter Cold: 31 °F
Winter Weather: Medium³

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