Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Granby gives you more for your money than most places: homes are within reach, about $130K for a typical one, or 1.7 years of the Syracuse metro’s $75K median household income. It grades C overall, ranked 559th of 745 in New York. The low prices come with trade-offs. Its schools rank behind 76% of the state's. Only 109 of New York’s 1,213 towns score lower on health. Granby’s average trip to work is 31 minutes, where New York’s towns sit at 25 minutes and U.S. towns at 25 minutes. The biggest park or preserve is Battle Island State Park, at 181 acres.
Where Granby beats most towns.
Where Granby’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 Granby is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Census counts: 555 in 1820, a low of 555 in 1820, 6,520 in 2020. The archive holds 2 old photos and papers going back to 1867 and 4 maps from 1900 on.
Who provides power, water and the rest in Granby, 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 Granby.
Granby gets more snow than nearly all U.S. towns, has homes that are cheap against local pay and sends most of its workers to Fulton and beyond.
Its public schools are run by the Fulton City School District. Its one school is below.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Granby Elementary SchoolLargest public elementary schoolGrades PK–6 | Grades PK–6 | 463 | D |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within NY on state tests and graduation
Granby has 645 jobs for its 2,739 working residents: even if every job went to a resident, most would still commute out.
Most working residents leave Granby for work: only 3% work in town. 14% of residents live below the poverty line in Granby. Jobs based in Granby grew to 645 in 2023, 53 more than in 2013.
| Granby | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Below the poverty line | 14% | 9.5% | 9.6% |
| Working residents who work in town | 3.4% | 10% | 8% |
| Work from home | 10% | 12% | 11% |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Granby beats the New York average on 0 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 15. 41% of Granby adults sleep under 7 hours.
| Granby | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 41% | 37% | 36% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 18% | 13% | 14% |
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 16% | 17% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 30% | 25% | 25% |
| What stands out | Granby | NY |
|---|---|---|
| More smokers | 17.6% | 11.3% |
| More adults with COPD | 9.1% | 6% |
| More adults with obesity | 37.9% | 28.8% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 71% of U.S. communities. One flood insurance claim has been paid in Granby since 1993.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
The Fulton weather station records that 159 inches of snow fall in a normal winter, more than in 99% of U.S. towns.
Granby has chilly, snowy winters and pleasant summers. Granby’s July high is 81°F.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
3.4 miles of trail in 1 park or preserve. The trail density in Granby is 0.1 miles per square mile.
| Granby | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.1 miles per square mile | 0.4 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 1.9% | 5.2% | 4.3% |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Battle Island State Park | — | 181 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
At 1.7 years of the Syracuse metro’s $75K median household income, the typical home costs less against local pay than in 96% of New York towns; that ratio is one input to its B for cost of living.
Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Granby. Close and well known come first.
23 mi Stadium & arenaJMA Wireless Dome
18 mi LakeOnondaga Lake
13 mi LandmarkFort Ontario
23 mi Stadium & arenaOncenter War Memorial Arena
20 mi Stadium & arenaAlliance Bank Stadium
29 mi State parkGreen Lakes State ParkJMA Wireless Dome: Jimhoward03, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Onondaga Lake: R. A. Nonenmacher, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Fort Ontario: Ad Meskens, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Oncenter War Memorial Arena: Crazyale, Public domain · Alliance Bank Stadium: Quintin Soloviev, CC BY 4.0 · Green Lakes State Park: Ebedgert at English Wikipedia, Public domain
2 within 15 miles of the center of Granby
About 4 of every 100 Granby residents are enrolled in college, against 7 across New York.
Town in New York, United States
Granby is a town in Oswego County, New York, United States. The population was 6,821 at the 2010 census. The Town of Granby is in the southwest corner of the county.
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6 towns share a border with Granby.
Lysander next door grades higher for schools (B+ to Granby’s C−) and lower for cost of living (C to B).
| Town | NY rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Granby | #559 | C | B | — | C− | C |
| Volney | #679 | D | B | — | C− | C |
| Fulton | #636 | C− | B | C+ | C− | D |
| Schroeppel | #572 | C | C+ | — | C | B− |
| Hannibal | #690 | D | B | — | C− | C |
| Lysander | #304 | B | C | — | B+ | B+ |
| Ira | — | — | B+ | — | B− | C+ |
Ira has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Granby, Volney, Schroeppel, Hannibal, Lysander and Ira report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Granby with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Granby grades C overall, better than 29% of U.S. towns and #559 of 745 in New York. It grades C for health and C− for schools. Schools is its weak spot, with a C−.
The typical home is worth about $130,000, 75% below the New York typical home. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades B.
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