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A town of 3,389, established in 1825.
Carroll gives you more for your money than most places: a typical home costs about $144K, 2.5 years of the Jamestown area’s $58K median household income. It grades A− overall, 143rd among New York's 745 graded towns. On the plus side, crime is low: it reports less per resident than 97% of U.S. towns. 16% of adults 25 and older hold a bachelor’s degree or more in Carroll, where New York’s towns sit at 32% and U.S. towns at 29%.
Where Carroll beats most towns.
Where Carroll’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within New York), ordered by how far Carroll is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Census counts: 1,015 in 1830, 3,524 in 2010. The archive holds 1 old photo or paper going back to 1867 and 3 maps from 1905 on.
Who provides power, water and the rest in Carroll, 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.
Ordered by what stands out in Carroll.
Carroll gets more snow than nearly all U.S. towns and sees little violent crime, but it carries more natural-hazard risk than most of New York (mostly inland flooding).
Violent crime is rare: 1 reported in 2025, 0.3 per 1,000 residents.
The rate of thefts and burglaries for Carroll comes to 2.7 per 1,000 residents. The violent crime rate for Carroll comes to 0.3 per 1,000 residents.
| Carroll | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Property crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 2.7 per 1,000 residents | 7.6 | 9.9 |
| Violent crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 0.3 per 1,000 residents | 0.8 | 1.6 |
FBI crime data, 2025 · crimes reported to police
Its two schools are below. The largest public high school is Frewsburg Junior-Senior High School, with 335 students. Public schools: the Frewsburg Central School District.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Robert H Jackson Elementary SchoolLargest public elementary schoolGrades PK–6 | Grades PK–6 | 395 | B− |
| Frewsburg Junior-Senior High SchoolLargest public high schoolGrades 7–12 | Grades 7–12 | 335 | B |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within NY on state tests and graduation
The average commute for its 1,399 working residents takes 20.2 minutes, against 32.6 across New York.
The top destinations are Jamestown (25%), Ellicott (16%) and Busti (7%). Only 10% of working residents stay in Carroll for work; the rest commute out. Its typical journey to work stands at 20 minutes. Between 2013 and 2023, jobs in Carroll dropped by 40, to 568.
| Carroll | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 20 minutes | 25 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Below the poverty line | 6.5% | 9.5% | 9.6% |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
The Jamestown 4 Ene weather station, 6 miles away, records that 98 inches of snow fall in a normal winter, more than in 97% of U.S. towns.
July afternoons reach 79° and January nights drop to 15°.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 84% of New York towns, with expected losses of about $481 per resident a year; that rating is what its C for hazard risk is built on.
In Carroll, the FEMA hazard score is 62 of 100. Of the losses FEMA expects locally, 82% come from inland flooding and 6% from tornadoes. Paid flood insurance claims here since 1981: 3.
FEMA disaster declarations and aid · FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Carroll: 13% of adults have diabetes. Of 32 CDC measures, Carroll beats the New York average on 5 and trails it on 10. Two figures for adults here: 82% had a checkup this year, 30% feel lonely.
| Carroll | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 39% | 34% | 35% |
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 82% | 81% | 79% |
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 30% | 32% | 33% |
| Diabetes (CDC PLACES) | 13% | 11% | 12% |
| What stands out | Carroll | NY |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer uninsured adults | 5.6% | 7.9% |
| Fewer adults facing housing insecurity | 11.5% | 14.5% |
| More adults with COPD | 9% | 6% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Trails total 0.4 miles in 2 parks and preserves.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Frewsburg Park | 0.1 mi | 15 |
| 2. Erlandson Overview Park | — | 4 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Carroll. Close and well known come first.
15 mi DamKinzua Dam
17 mi LakeChautauqua Lake
27 mi National forestAllegheny National Forest
33 mi State parkKinzua Bridge State Park
20 mi State parkAllegany State Park
8 mi MuseumLucille Ball-Desi Arnaz CenterKinzua Dam: Niagara, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Chautauqua Lake: Banderas, Public domain · Allegheny National Forest: IvoShandor, CC BY 2.5 · Kinzua Bridge State Park: Nicholas from Pennsylvania, USA, CC BY 2.0 · Allegany State Park: Andre Carrotflower, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Center: G. Edward Johnson, CC BY 4.0
3 within 15 miles of the center of Carroll
About 2 of every 100 Carroll residents are enrolled in college, against 7 across New York.
4 towns share a border with Carroll.
| Town | NY rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carroll | #143 | A− | A− | A+ | B | C+ |
| Kiantone | — | — | B− | — | C− | C− |
| Frewsburg | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Poland | — | — | A− | — | C | C+ |
| South Valley | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Kiantone and Poland have fewer than 2,500 residents, so they get subject grades but no overall grade. Kiantone and Poland report no FBI crime data of their own. Frewsburg and South Valley aren’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Carroll with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
By most measures, yes. Carroll grades A− overall, better than 83% of U.S. towns and #143 of 745 in New York. It grades C+ for health, A+ for safety and B for schools.
Not for the area. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades A−.
