Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Home to 3 places on the National Register of Historic Places.
Hartford’s best subject grades are an A for history and an A− for civic life; its weakest is a D for walkability. Only 81 of New York’s 1,216 towns score lower on walkability. 18% of adults 25 and older hold a bachelor’s degree or more in Hartford, below both New York’s towns (32%) and U.S. towns (29%). Only 75 of New York’s 1,216 towns score lower on the outdoors. Its National Register listings include Brown's Tavern and Hartford Baptist Church and Cemetery. Hartford has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
Where Hartford beats most towns.
Where Hartford’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 Hartford is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
The archive holds 6 old photos and papers going back to 1891.
3 places on the National Register of Historic Places.
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Hartford. Close and well known come first.
Big draw34 mi LandmarkFort Ticonderoga
20 mi LakeLake George
16 mi LandmarkFort William Henry
14 mi Theme parkGreat Escape
20 mi State parkGrant Cottage State Historic Site
36 mi Ski areaKillington Resort184 runs · 3,031 ft verticalFort 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 · Grant Cottage State Historic Site: Coingeek at English Wikipedia, Public domain · Killington Resort: NHRHS2010, CC BY-SA 3.0
Who provides power, water and the rest in Hartford, 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 Hartford.
The typical Hartford home is worth about $235,000, up 0.5% in a year, 55% below the New York typical home. 81% of Hartford households own their home, above both the New York town median (75%) and the median of U.S. towns (73%).
| Hartford | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 81% | 75% | 73% |
| Median rent | $1,098 a month | $1,101 a month | $1,185 a month |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Its public schools are run by the Hartford Central School District. Its two schools are below.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Floyd Harwood Elementary SchoolLargest public elementary schoolGrades PK–5 | Grades PK–5 | 140 | B− |
| Hartford Middle/High SchoolLargest public high schoolGrades 6–12 | Grades 6–12 | 212 | B− |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within NY on state tests and graduation
Most working residents leave Hartford for work: only 5% work in town. Jobs based in Hartford grew to 289 in 2023, 83 more than in 2013. Hartford’s average trip to work is 29 minutes.
| Hartford | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 29 minutes | 25 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Median household income | $65,000 | $82,000 | $80,000 |
| Working residents who work in town | 5.4% | 10% | 8% |
| Below the poverty line | 8.4% | 9.5% | 9.6% |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 74% of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Hartford has cold, snowy winters and pleasant summers. July afternoons reach 82°, January nights drop to 11° and about 75 inches of snow falls in a winter.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Hartford beats the New York average on 3 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 10. 15% of adults report frequent physical distress in Hartford.
| Hartford | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 15% | 14% | 14% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 16% | 13% | 14% |
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 34% | 37% | 36% |
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 81% | 81% | 79% |
| What stands out | Hartford | NY |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer uninsured adults | 6.2% | 7.9% |
| Fewer adults facing housing insecurity | 11.4% | 14.5% |
| More adults with COPD | 8.6% | 6% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
1 within 15 miles of the center of Hartford
About 1 of every 100 Hartford residents are enrolled in college, against 7 across New York.
3 places in Hartford on the National Register of Historic Places.
4 notable people were born in Hartford.
Town in New York, United States
Hartford is a town centrally located in Washington County, New York, United States. It is part of the Glens Falls Metropolitan Statistical Area. The town population was 2,193 at the 2020 census.
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5 towns share a border with Hartford.
| Town | NY rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hartford | — | — | B− | — | C+ | B− |
| Fort Ann | #367 | B− | B | — | B | B− |
| Kingsbury | #573 | C | B− | — | D | B |
| Hebron | — | — | C | — | C | B |
| Granville | #527 | C | B+ | — | C− | C+ |
| Argyle | #434 | B− | B− | — | B− | B |
Hartford and Hebron have fewer than 2,500 residents, so they get subject grades but no overall grade. Hartford, Fort Ann, Kingsbury, Hebron, Granville and Argyle report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Hartford with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Home to 3 places on the National Register of Historic Places.
That is 3.1 years of the area's median household income ($75,836 across the Glens Falls, NY metro 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−.
4 notable people were born here, including Orson Pratt and Sarah Bates.
