DarienNY
A town of 2,985, settled in 1832.
Is Darien a good place to live?
Most errands need a car: it is less walkable than 97% of U.S. towns. Overall it grades B−, 385th of 745 graded towns in New York. Natural-hazard risk is low. Darien Lakes State Park, at 1,830 acres with 20.6 miles of trail, is the biggest park or preserve. Darien’s median age is 50.5 years, above both New York’s towns (42.9 years) and U.S. towns (40.5 years). Darien's schools outperform 72% of the state's.
What makes Darien stand out
Where Darien beats most towns.
94% of working residents leave Darien for work
Where Darien’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Darien grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within New York), ordered by how far Darien is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Niagara Falls and 44 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Darien. Close and well known come first.
Big draw37 mi WaterfallNiagara Falls
Big draw23 mi Stadium & arenaHighmark Stadiumin town Theme parkSix Flags Darien Lake1.5M visitors a year
Big draw23 mi Stadium & arenaRalph Wilson Stadium
37 mi WaterfallHorseshoe Falls
25 mi Stadium & arenaKeyBank CenterPhoto credits
Niagara Falls: Robert F. Tobler, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Highmark Stadium: James161723, CC0 · Ralph Wilson Stadium: User Evilarry on en.wikipedia, Public domain · Horseshoe Falls: Ujjwal Kumar, Public domain · KeyBank Center: Andre Carrotflower, CC BY-SA 4.0
Moving to Darien: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Darien, 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 Darien.
Darien has less no health insurance than most of New York and has commutes shorter than most of New York.
| Darien | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.6 miles per square mile | 0.4 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 6.5% | 5.2% | 4.3% |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Darien Lakes State Park | 20.6 mi | 1,830 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Darien faces a low natural-hazard risk, led by inland flooding
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 80% of U.S. communities. Since 1978, 47 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Darien.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Most of Darien’s workers commute out: the town has 0.4 jobs for each of them
The average commute for its 1,312 working residents takes 24.3 minutes, against 32.6 across New York.
Most working residents leave Darien for work: only 6% work in town. Since 2013, Darien has added 94 jobs, to 546 in 2023. The top destinations are Batavia (12%), Amherst (7%) and Batavia (6%).
| Darien | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Working residents who work in town | 6.2% | 10% | 8% |
| Median household income | $88,000 | $82,000 | $80,000 |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Darien ranks healthier than 70% of the country’s towns
Its widest gap with New York is no health insurance: 5.1% of those 18–64 have no health insurance, against 7.9% statewide.
Darien beats the New York average on 5 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 6. 31% of adults have obesity in Darien.
| Darien | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 31% | 33% | 35% |
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 81% | 81% | 79% |
| No health insurance, 18–64 (CDC PLACES) | 5.1% | 5.9% | 8.1% |
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 31% | 32% | 33% |
| What stands out | Darien | NY |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer uninsured adults | 5.1% | 7.9% |
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 11.3% | 17.2% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 10.1% | 7.7% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Darien has snowy winters and pleasant summers
Darien has chilly, snowy winters and pleasant summers. Darien’s July high is 80°F.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Everything we know about Darien
Colleges nearby
1 within 15 miles of the center of Darien
About 3 of every 100 Darien residents are enrolled in college, against 7 across New York.
About Darien
Town in Genesee County, New York
Darien (pronounced "Dare-E-Ann", Seneca: O’sóötgeh) is a town in Genesee County, New York, United States. The population was 3,010 at the 2020 census. Darien lies in the southwestern part of Genesee County, southwest of Batavia.
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- Area
- 48 sq mi
- Elevation
- 951 ft
Darien’s neighbors
4 towns share a border with Darien.
All 3 graded towns on its borders grade higher than its B−; Bennington (B) is closest.
| Town | NY rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Darien | #385 | B− | C+ | — | B+ | B+ |
| Pembroke | #172 | A− | B | — | A− | B+ |
| Bennington | #330 | B | B− | — | B | B+ |
| Alexander | — | — | C | — | B+ | B+ |
| Alden | #186 | A− | C+ | — | B+ | A− |
Alexander has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Darien, Pembroke, Bennington, Alexander and Alden report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Darien with a neighbor →
Questions about Darien
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Darien, NY a good place to live?
Darien grades B− overall, better than 50% of U.S. towns and #385 of 745 in New York. It grades B+ for health and B+ for schools. Walkability is its weak spot, with a D−.
Is Darien, NY expensive?
Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades C+.