Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Easy on the wallet, harder on other counts. With a C overall, Granville is better than a third of U.S. towns and ranks 527th of 745 in New York. The weak point is schools: its schools rank behind 78% of the state's. Its best grade is for cost of living: a typical home costs about $151K, 2 years of the Glens Falls metro’s $76K median household income. Its National Register listings include Lemuel Haynes House and US Post Office-Granville. The biggest park or preserve is Granville Little League, at 20 acres. 16% of adults 25 and older hold a bachelor’s degree or more locally, against 32% in New York’s towns and 29% across U.S. towns. This New York town has 6 places on the National Register.
Figures: home values, Zillow · incomes, Census ACS, 2020–24 · schools, state test and graduation results · National Register of Historic Places · OpenStreetMap.
Where Granville beats most towns.
Lemuel Haynes House is a National Historic Landmark, the National Register’s top tier.
Census counts: 3,727 in 1820, 6,215 in 2020. The archive holds 6 old photos and papers going back to 1860 and 3 maps from 1893 on.
6 places on the National Register of Historic Places.
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within New York), ordered by how far Granville is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Who provides power, water and the rest in Granville, 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 Granville.
The public schools here belong to the Granville Central School District. The largest public high school is Granville Junior-Senior High School, with 473 students. Two of its 4 schools are shown below, with the reason for each.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Granville Elementary SchoolLargest public elementary schoolGrades 3–6 | Grades 3–6 | 266 | C− |
| Granville Junior-Senior High SchoolLargest public high schoolGrades 7–12 | Grades 7–12 | 473 | C+ |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within NY on state tests and graduation
26% of working residents cross a state line to work, Rutland among the top destinations. The average commute for its 2,685 working residents takes 24.9 minutes, against 32.6 across New York.
The median commute is under 20 miles. In Granville, 19% of working residents work locally. Employers in Granville shed 127 jobs between 2013 and 2023, to 1,484. The town’s middle household income comes in at $69,000.
| Granville | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Working residents who work in town | 19% | 10% | 8% |
| Below the poverty line | 12% | 9.5% | 9.6% |
| Median household income | $69,000 | $82,000 | $80,000 |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
A winter brings about 75 inches of snow, with January nights at 11° and July afternoons at 82°.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Trails total 7.9 miles in 2 parks and preserves. Granville’s density of trails is 0.1 miles per square mile.
| Granville | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conserved land | 0.6% | 5.2% | 4.3% |
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.1 miles per square mile | 0.4 | 0.4 |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Granville Little League | 0.2 mi | 20 |
| 2. Veteran's Park | — | 1 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
The share of adults in Granville who sleep under 7 hours: 35%. CDC measures, 32 in all: Granville beats New York on 3 and trails on 13. 16% of adults in Granville smoke cigarettes; 29% get no exercise outside work.
| Granville | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 16% | 14% | 14% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 16% | 13% | 14% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 29% | 25% | 25% |
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 82% | 81% | 79% |
| What stands out | Granville | NY |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer uninsured adults | 6.2% | 7.9% |
| Fewer adults facing housing insecurity | 11.8% | 14.5% |
| More adults with COPD | 9.2% | 6% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Of the losses FEMA expects in Granville, 71% come from inland flooding and 10% from cold waves. Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 54% of U.S. communities. Paid flood insurance claims locally since 1981: 4.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Granville. Close and well known come first.
Big draw29 mi LandmarkFort Ticonderoga
18 mi LakeLake George
20 mi LandmarkFort William Henry
20 mi Theme parkGreat Escape
29 mi Ski areaKillington Resort184 runs · 3,031 ft vertical
27 mi State parkGrant Cottage State Historic SiteFort Ticonderoga: Mwanner, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Lake George: Sixlocal, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Fort William Henry: IrisKawling at en.wikipedia, Public domain · Great Escape: Jared and Corin, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Killington Resort: NHRHS2010, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Grant Cottage State Historic Site: Coingeek at English Wikipedia, Public domain
None within 15 miles of Granville; the nearest are
About 2 of every 100 Granville residents are enrolled in college, against 7 across New York.
6 places in Granville on the National Register of Historic Places.
Town in New York, United States
Granville is a town on the eastern border of Washington County, New York, United States, abutting Rutland County, Vermont. It is part of the Glens Falls Metropolitan Statistical Area. The town population was 6,215 at the 2020 census. The town of Granville contains a village that also bears the name Granville. Granville is named for John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville. Granville has been called the "Colored Slate Capital of the World." Quarries in the town mine slate that comes in colors such as green, gray, gray black, purple, mottled green and purple, and red. Walter Granville-Smith was born in Granville. Granville Avenue and the associated CTA station in Chicago are named after the town, as…
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8 towns share a border with Granville.
| Town | NY rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Granville | #527 | C | B+ | — | C− | C+ |
| Hartford | — | — | B− | — | C+ | B− |
| Whitehall | #723 | D− | B | — | D | C− |
| Fort Ann | #367 | B− | B | — | B | B− |
| Hebron | — | — | C | — | C | B |
| Hampton | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Hartford and Hebron have fewer than 2,500 residents, so they get subject grades but no overall grade. Granville, Hartford, Whitehall, Fort Ann and Hebron report no FBI crime data of their own. Hampton isn’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Granville with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Granville grades C overall, better than 33% of U.S. towns and #527 of 745 in New York. It grades C+ for health and C− for schools. Schools is its weak spot, with a C−.
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 B+.
