Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Dansville’s weakest subject grade is a C− for walkability. Dansville’s July high is 79°F, where New York’s towns sit at 81°F and U.S. towns at 85°F. The biggest place to walk is Stony Brook State Park, 558 acres with 9.4 miles of trail. Dansville's civic life (library use, community groups, volunteering) trails 82% of U.S. towns. Dansville has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
Where Dansville beats most towns.
Where Dansville’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 Dansville is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Census counts: 1,565 in 1820, a low of 794 in 1940, 1,842 in 2010. The archive holds 15 old photos and papers going back to 1890 and 3 maps from 1915 on.
Who provides power, water and the rest in Dansville, 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 Dansville.
Most working residents leave Dansville for work: only 4% work in town. Since 2013, Dansville has added 26 jobs, to 194 in 2023. At $69,000, Dansville’s median household income is below both New York’s towns ($82,000) and U.S. towns ($80,000).
| Dansville | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Working residents who work in town | 4.3% | 10% | 8% |
| Median household income | $69,000 | $82,000 | $80,000 |
| Below the poverty line | 11% | 9.5% | 9.6% |
| Average trip to work | 26 minutes | 25 minutes | 25 minutes |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Dansville has cold, snowy winters and pleasant summers. Dansville’s January low is 14°F.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Expected storm and flood damage is higher than in 58% of U.S. communities. One flood insurance claim has been paid in Dansville since 2002.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Dansville beats the New York average on 5 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 9. 15% of adults report frequent physical distress in Dansville.
| Dansville | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 15% | 14% | 14% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 37% | 34% | 35% |
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 81% | 81% | 79% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 15% | 13% | 14% |
| What stands out | Dansville | NY |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer uninsured adults | 5.7% | 7.9% |
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 13% | 17.2% |
| More adults with COPD | 8.5% | 6% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
| Dansville | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conserved land | 2.2% | 5.2% | 4.3% |
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.3 miles per square mile | 0.4 | 0.4 |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Stony Brook State Park | 9.4 mi | 558 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
None within 15 miles of Dansville; the nearest are
About 4 of every 100 Dansville residents are enrolled in college, against 7 across New York.
Town in New York, United States
Dansville is a town in Steuben County, New York, United States, not to be confused with the nearby village of Dansville in Livingston County. The population was 1,842 at the 2010 census. The town was named after Daniel Faulkner. The Town of Dansville is in the northwest corner of the county, north of Hornell.
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6 towns share a border with Dansville.
| Town | NY rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dansville | — | — | B− | — | C+ | B− |
| Fremont | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Wayland | #540 | C | B | — | B− | C+ |
| Burns | — | — | B+ | — | B+ | B |
| North Dansville | #387 | B− | B | — | C | B− |
| Ossian | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Hornellsville | #399 | B− | A− | — | C | C+ |
Dansville and Burns have fewer than 2,500 residents, so they get subject grades but no overall grade. Dansville, Wayland, Burns, North Dansville and Hornellsville report no FBI crime data of their own. Fremont and Ossian aren’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Dansville with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades B−.