GainesvilleNY
The town, settled in 1823, counts 1,972 residents.
Is Gainesville a good place to live?
The best of Gainesville’s subject grades are an A− for cost of living and a B+ for history; the weakest is a C− for incomes. Gainesville’s typical July afternoon high is 78°F, against 81°F in New York’s towns and 85°F across U.S. towns. On civic life, just 97 of New York’s 1,187 towns do worse. Gainesville has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
89% of working residents leave Gainesville for work
Where Gainesville’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Gainesville grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within New York), ordered by how far Gainesville is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Moving to Gainesville: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Gainesville, 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 Gainesville.
With only 0.7 jobs per working resident, most people in Gainesville work out of town
The top destinations are Warsaw (18%), Perry (7%) and Rochester (4%). Just just over a tenth of Gainesville’s working residents have a job in town. Between 2013 and 2023, jobs in the town rose by 67, to 646. The middle household income here is $56,000.
| Gainesville | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $56,000 | $82,000 | $80,000 |
| Average trip to work | 21 minutes | 25 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Below the poverty line | 11% | 9.5% | 9.6% |
| Working residents who work in town | 11% | 10% | 8% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
On state tests, Gainesville’s schools trail 55% of New York districts
Two of the 3 schools are below, and why each made the list. Public schools: the Letchworth Central School District.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Letchworth Elementary SchoolLargest public elementary schoolGrades PK–4 | Grades PK–4 | 311 | B |
| Letchworth Senior High SchoolLargest public high schoolGrades 9–12 | Grades 9–12 | 268 | A |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within NY on state tests and graduation
In Gainesville, expect snowy winters and pleasant summers
The January low for Gainesville comes to 14°F.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Natural hazards: moderate risk in Gainesville, mostly inland flooding
Of the losses FEMA expects in Gainesville, 80% come from inland flooding. Compared with nearly three fifths of U.S. communities, expected storm and flood damage in the town is lower. Since 1979, one flood insurance claim has been paid in the town.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Gainesville is less healthy than 54% of U.S. towns
For adults in Gainesville, the share who have high blood pressure is 38%. This New York town does better than the New York average on 3 of 32 CDC measures and worse on 9.
| Gainesville | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 15% | 14% | 14% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 16% | 13% | 14% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 38% | 34% | 35% |
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 38% | 37% | 36% |
| What stands out | Gainesville | NY |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer uninsured adults | 6% | 7.9% |
| Fewer adults facing housing insecurity | 11.7% | 14.5% |
| More adults with COPD | 8.8% | 6% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Conservation land takes up 1.7% of Gainesville
Across 1 park or preserve: 11 miles of trail. Gainesville has one park or preserve, 14 acres in all. For Gainesville, the concentration of trails is 0.3 miles per square mile.
| Gainesville | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conserved land | 1.7% | 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. Village Park | — | 14 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Everything we know about Gainesville
Colleges nearby
None within 15 miles of Gainesville; the nearest are
About 3 of every 100 Gainesville residents are enrolled in college, against 7 across New York.
About Gainesville
Town in New York, United States
Gainesville is an incorporated town in Wyoming County, New York. The population was 2,333 at the 2000 census. The town is named after General Edmund P. Gaines. The Town of Gainesville is on the eastern border of the county. Gainesville is also the name of a village in the town.
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- Area
- 36 sq mi
- Elevation
- 1,660 ft
- Area code
- 585
Gainesville’s neighbors
4 towns share a border with Gainesville.
| Town | NY rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gainesville | — | — | A− | — | B− | B− |
| Castile | #511 | C | B+ | — | C+ | B− |
| Warsaw | #551 | C | B− | — | C+ | B− |
| Pike | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Wethersfield | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Gainesville has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Gainesville, Castile and Warsaw report no FBI crime data of their own. Pike and Wethersfield aren’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Gainesville with a neighbor →
Questions about Gainesville
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Gainesville, NY expensive?
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−.