Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Fort Ann’s best grade is for incomes: the median household earns $86K. A typical home there costs about $281K, 3.7 years of the Glens Falls metro’s $76K median household income. Walkability is its weak spot. Most errands need a car: it is less walkable than 78% of U.S. towns. Put together, the subjects come to a B− overall, ranking 367th of 745 in New York. On that grade it does better than 53% of U.S. towns. 28% of the land locally is conserved, where New York’s towns sit at 5.2% and U.S. towns at 4.3%. Lake George Wild Forest, at 11,509 acres with 46.2 miles of trail, is the biggest park or preserve.
Figures: incomes, Census ACS, 2020–24 · home values, Zillow · USGS PAD-US · OpenStreetMap.
Where Fort Ann beats most towns.
Census counts: 2,911 in 1820, a low of 2,236 in 1910, 5,812 in 2020. The archive holds 12 old photos and papers going back to 1789 and 3 maps from 1893 on.
1 place on the National Register of Historic Places.
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within New York), ordered by how far Fort Ann is from typical.
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Who provides power, water and the rest in Fort Ann, 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 Fort Ann.
There are 69 miles of trail across 4 parks and preserves. Fort Ann’s density of trails is 0.6 miles per square mile.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Lake George Wild Forest | 46.2 mi | 11,509 |
| 2. Pilot Knob Ridge Preserve | 2.6 mi | 207 |
| 3. Lake George Islands Intensive Use Area | 0.2 mi | 31 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Its two schools are below. Public schools: the Fort Ann Central School District. Also worth knowing: 2 public schools serve Fort Ann, with 458 students in all.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fort Ann Elementary SchoolLargest public elementary schoolGrades PK–5 | Grades PK–5 | 225 | B |
| Fort Ann Middle/High SchoolLargest public high schoolGrades 6–12 | Grades 6–12 | 233 | B− |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within NY on state tests and graduation
In Fort Ann, the midpoint rent is $938 a month. Zillow values the typical Fort Ann home at about $281,000, up 4.6% in a year, 46% below the New York typical home. 85% of households own their home here.
| Fort Ann | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 85% | 75% | 73% |
| Median rent | $938 a month | $1,103 a month | $1,185 a month |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
The average commute for its 1,872 working residents takes 26.4 minutes, against 32.6 across New York.
Half of commuters travel less than 19 miles. In Fort Ann, 5.2% of residents live below the poverty line. Just nearly a tenth of the town’s working residents have a job in town. The top destinations are Queensbury (12%), Glens Falls (9%) and Kingsbury (6%).
| Fort Ann | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Below the poverty line | 5.2% | 9.5% | 9.6% |
| Average trip to work | 26 minutes | 25 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Median household income | $86,000 | $82,000 | $80,000 |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Summer afternoons peak near 81° in July, and January nights bottom out around 10°; snowfall runs to about 60 inches a winter.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
On expected storm and flood damage, Fort Ann sits below 61% of U.S. communities. Of the losses FEMA expects locally, 69% come from inland flooding and 12% from cold waves. Households here have drawn federal disaster aid once, in 2011.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
For adults in Fort Ann, the share who get no exercise outside work is 27%. Against the New York average, Fort Ann comes out ahead on 1 CDC measures out of 32, and behind on 10.
| Fort Ann | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 16% | 13% | 14% |
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 15% | 14% | 14% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 27% | 25% | 25% |
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 35% | 37% | 36% |
| What stands out | Fort Ann | NY |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing housing insecurity | 12.3% | 14.5% |
| More smokers | 16.2% | 11.3% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Fort Ann. Close and well known come first.
10 mi LakeLake George
Big draw26 mi LandmarkFort Ticonderoga
10 mi LandmarkFort William Henry
12 mi Theme parkGreat Escape
22 mi State parkGrant Cottage State Historic Site
38 mi Ski areaKillington Resort184 runs · 3,031 ft verticalLake George: Sixlocal, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Fort Ticonderoga: Mwanner, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Fort William Henry: IrisKawling at en.wikipedia, Public domain · Great Escape: Jared and Corin, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Grant Cottage State Historic Site: Coingeek at English Wikipedia, Public domain · Killington Resort: NHRHS2010, CC BY-SA 3.0
1 within 15 miles of the center of Fort Ann
About 1 of every 100 Fort Ann residents are enrolled in college, against 7 across New York.
Where Fort Ann’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
8 notable people were born in Fort Ann.
Town in New York, United States
Fort Ann is a town in Washington County, New York, United States. It is part of the Glens Falls Metropolitan Statistical Area. The town population was 5,812 at the 2020 census. The town contains a village, also called Fort Ann, located in its southeastern corner.
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8 towns share a border with Fort Ann.
| Town | NY rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fort Ann | #367 | B− | B | — | B | B− |
| Bolton | — | — | C+ | — | A− | A− |
| Hartford | — | — | B− | — | C+ | B− |
| Queensbury | #257 | B+ | C− | — | B+ | A− |
| Whitehall | #723 | D− | B | — | D | C− |
| Kingsbury | #573 | C | B− | — | D | B |
| Dresden | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Granville | #527 | C | B+ | — | C− | C+ |
Bolton and Hartford have fewer than 2,500 residents, so they get subject grades but no overall grade. Fort Ann, Bolton, Hartford, Queensbury, Whitehall, Kingsbury and Granville report no FBI crime data of their own. Dresden isn’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Fort Ann with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Fort Ann grades B− overall, better than 53% of U.S. towns and #367 of 745 in New York. It grades B− for health and B for schools. Walkability is its weak spot, with a C−.
Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades B.
8 notable people were born here, including John Henry Dolph and Mary Harris Thompson.
