Is Airmont a good place to live?
Airmont's standout: natural-hazard risk is low. Overall it grades C+, 497th of 745 graded towns in New York. It is more walkable than 88% of U.S. towns. Its weakest subject is schools: its public schools trail 88% of New York towns on state tests and graduation. 39% of residents are under 18 in Airmont, above both the New York town median (20%) and the median of U.S. towns (22%). On history, just 60 of New York’s 1,216 towns do worse.
What makes Airmont stand out
Where Airmont beats most towns.
Jobs vs. working residents
Airmont has grown 24% since 2010
8,628 counted in 2010 and 10,166 in 2020; an estimated 10,634 in 2025.
U.S. Census 2010 & 2020 counts · Census Bureau estimate, July 1, 2025
How Airmont grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within New York), ordered by how far Airmont is from typical.
Its grades run from A+ for hazard risk (better than 96% of comparable towns) to D for schools (better than 12%), so the C+ overall blends very different results.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Central Park and 526 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Airmont. Close and well known come first.
Big draw23 mi GardenCentral Park40.0M visitors a year
Big draw25 mi Stadium & arenaMadison Square Garden
Big draw22 mi MuseumUnited States Military Academy
Big draw20 mi Stadium & arenaMetLife Stadium
Big draw24 mi TheatreStudio 54
Big draw23 mi MuseumMetropolitan Museum of Art2.0M visitors a yearPhoto credits
Central Park: Ed Yourdon from New York City, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Madison Square Garden: Ajay Suresh from New York, NY, USA, CC BY 2.0 · United States Military Academy: USMA Public Affairs Office, Public domain · MetLife Stadium: babyknight, CC BY 2.0 · Studio 54: Americasroof (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0 · Metropolitan Museum of Art: Hugo Schneider, CC BY-SA 2.0
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Moving to Airmont: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Airmont, and how to reach them.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Aug 3, 2026.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Airmont.
Airmont draws workers from Ramapo and beyond, but it has homes that cost more against local pay than most of New York and scores below Montebello and its other neighbors on health.
Airmont’s typical home value is about $993K
At 10 years of the New York metro’s $99K median household income, the typical home (about $993K) costs more against local pay than in 93% of New York towns; that ratio is one input to its C− for cost of living. Home values rose 56% in five years, to about $993K, against 30% across New York.
The typical Airmont home is worth about $993,000, up 5% in a year, 89% above the New York typical home.
Typical home value
Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
About one in three of Airmont’s working residents commute to Ramapo
5,914 jobs are based in Airmont, 1.8 for every working resident, so most of the people who work here commute in. Jobs based here grew from 2,997 in 2013 to 5,914.
Most working residents leave Airmont for work: only 6% work in town. Jobs based in Airmont grew to 5,914 in 2023, 2,917 more than in 2013. The average trip to work in Airmont is 27 minutes.
| Airmont | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 27 minutes | 25 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Median household income | $95,000 | $82,000 | $80,000 |
| Below the poverty line | 13% | 9.5% | 9.6% |
| Working residents who work in town | 6% | 10% | 8% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Airmont faces a very low natural-hazard risk, led by inland flooding
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 94% of U.S. communities. One flood insurance claim has been paid in Airmont since 2011.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
The median age in Airmont is lower than in most of New York or the rest of the country
Airmont’s median age is 24.3 years. Airmont has grown 4.9% since 2020, to 10,634 residents in the Census Bureau’s 2025 estimate. 13% of Airmont residents are 65 or older.
| Airmont | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median age | 24.3 years | 43 years | 40.5 years |
| Aged 65 or older | 13% | 20% | 18% |
Ages · share of residents
Education · adults 25 and older
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
That’s an even split within the survey’s margin of ±3.1 points. Across New York, 51.2% of residents are women.
| Airmont | NY | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 19.6% | 11% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 19% | 9.5% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 12.8% | 8.9% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 8.7% | 14.2% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 9.4% | 13% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 10.9% | 12.2% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 6.2% | 13.3% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 6.8% | 10.3% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 6.6% | 7.6% | 7% |
| No diploma | 16% | 12% | 10.4% |
| High school | 26.1% | 24.3% | 26% |
| Some college | 19.8% | 14.6% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 5.8% | 8.8% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 17.1% | 22.4% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 15% | 17.9% | 14.1% |
Census population estimates, 2025 · U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates
Airmont is healthier than 70% of U.S. towns
All 3 graded neighbors score healthier than its B+, from Montebello (A−) to Suffern (A).
Airmont beats the New York average on 0 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 1. 41% of adults sleep under 7 hours in Airmont.
| Airmont | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 41% | 37% | 36% |
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 35% | 32% | 33% |
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 29% | 33% | 35% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 32% | 34% | 35% |
| What stands out | Airmont | NY |
|---|---|---|
| More adults who have had cancer | 8.7% | 7.7% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Airmont has four seasons and pleasant summers
Airmont has chilly, snowy winters and warm summers, with plenty of rain. July afternoons reach 84°, January nights drop to 21° and about 36 inches of snow falls in a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Airmont has set aside 5.3% of its land for conservation
0.9 miles of trail in 1 park or preserve.
| Airmont | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.2 miles per square mile | 0.4 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 5.3% | 5.2% | 4.3% |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Clark Recreation Center | 0.1 mi | 12 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Everything we know about Airmont
Colleges nearby
26 within 15 miles of the center of Airmont
About 6 of every 100 Airmont residents are enrolled in college, about the same as New York.
Every workday, about 5,712 people come to Airmont for work
Where Airmont’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
About Airmont
Village in New York, United States
Airmont ( ) is a village in the town of Ramapo, Rockland County, New York, United States, located north of the state of New Jersey, east of Suffern, south of Montebello, and west of Chestnut Ridge. The population was 10,166 at the 2020 census. The village of Airmont, incorporated in 1991, is a consolidation of the hamlets of Tallman, Airmont and South Monsey. Joseph Berger of The New York Times wrote in a 1997 article that Airmont was one of several Ramapo villages formed "to preserve the sparse Better Homes and Garden [sic] ambiance that attracted them to Rockland County." In 2005, Peter Applebome of The New York Times said that Airmont was "slapped around enough by the courts to be someth…
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- Area
- 4.6 sq mi
- Elevation
- 584 ft
Airmont’s neighbors
5 towns share a border with Airmont.
Montebello next door grades higher for schools (B+ to Airmont’s D) and lower for cost of living (D− to C−).
| Town | NY rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Airmont | #497 | C+ | C− | — | D | B+ |
| Chestnut Ridge | #526 | C | D− | — | D− | A− |
| Monsey | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Montebello | #298 | B | D− | — | B+ | A− |
| Viola | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Suffern | #247 | B+ | D | B | B+ | A |
Airmont, Chestnut Ridge and Montebello report no FBI crime data of their own. Monsey and Viola aren’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Airmont with a neighbor →
Questions about Airmont
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Airmont, NY a good place to live?
Airmont grades C+ overall, better than 36% of U.S. towns and #497 of 745 in New York. It grades B+ for health and D for schools. Schools is its weak spot, with a D.
Is Airmont, NY expensive?
Yes. That is 10 years of the area's median household income ($99,155 across the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ metro area). Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades C−.