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Hyde Park grades B overall, ranked 290th of 745 in New York, with clear strengths and some subjects that lag. Crime is low: it reports less per resident than 90% of U.S. towns and CDC estimates put its residents' health ahead of 82% of the country. Its lowest everyday mark is in schools: its schools rank behind 74% of the state's. A typical home there costs about $331K, 3.4 years of the Kiryas Joel metro’s $98K median household income. Its National Register listings include Top Cottage and Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site. 12% of the land in Hyde Park is conserved, where New York’s towns sit at 5.2% and U.S. towns at 4.3%. Hyde Park is home to Culinary Institute of America.
Where Hyde Park beats most towns.
Top Cottage is a National Historic Landmark, the National Register’s top tier.
Census counts: 2,554 in 1830, 21,021 in 2020. The archive holds 29 old photos and papers going back to 1826 and 4 maps from 1898 on.
25 places on the National Register of Historic Places.
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within New York), ordered by how far Hyde Park is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Hyde Park. Close and well known come first.
Big draw29 mi MuseumUnited States Military Academy
in town National Historic SiteHome of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site102K visitors a year
in town National Historic SiteVanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site295K visitors a yearin town MuseumFranklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum
in town National Historic SiteEleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site14K visitors a year
31 mi LakeCandlewood LakeUnited States Military Academy: USMA Public Affairs Office, Public domain · Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site: Crunch, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site: Daderot, Public domain · Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site: Deror_avi, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Candlewood Lake: Carol M. Highsmith, Public domain
Who provides power, water and the rest in Hyde Park, 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 Hyde Park.
37 miles of trail in 13 parks and preserves. At 0.9 miles per square mile, Hyde Park’s trail density is against 0.4 in New York’s towns and 0.4 across U.S. towns. The biggest place to walk is Margaret Lewis Norrie State Park, 385 acres with 5.6 miles of trail.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site | 9.2 mi | 773 |
| 2. Margaret Lewis Norrie State Park | 5.6 mi | 385 |
| 3. Ogden Mills and Ruth Livingston Mills State Park | 4.9 mi | 558 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Its public schools are run by the Hyde Park Central School District. Two of its 7 schools are below, each with why it’s listed. The largest public high school is Franklin D Roosevelt Senior High School, with 1,121 students.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Haviland Middle SchoolLargest public middle schoolGrades 6–8 | Grades 6–8 | 757 | C |
| Franklin D Roosevelt Senior High SchoolLargest public high schoolGrades 9–12 | Grades 9–12 | 1,121 | A |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within NY on state tests and graduation
Violent crime is rare: 13 reported in 2025, 0.6 per 1,000 residents.
The property crime rate in Hyde Park is 2.2 per 1,000 residents.
| Hyde Park | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Property crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 2.2 per 1,000 residents | 7.6 | 9.9 |
| Violent crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 0.6 per 1,000 residents | 0.8 | 1.6 |
FBI crime data, 2025 · crimes reported to police
28% of adults have obesity in Hyde Park. Hyde Park beats the New York average on 7 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 1. 15% of adults binge drink in Hyde Park.
| Hyde Park | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 28% | 33% | 35% |
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 15% | 17% | 16% |
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 20% | 21% | 23% |
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 34% | 32% | 33% |
| What stands out | Hyde Park | NY |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 13.2% | 17.2% |
| Fewer adults facing housing insecurity | 11.5% | 14.5% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 9.1% | 7.7% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Hyde Park’s average trip to work is 29 minutes. Since 2013, Hyde Park has added 430 jobs, to 5,158 in 2023. The top destinations are Poughkeepsie (14%), New York (14%) and Poughkeepsie (8%).
| Hyde Park | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 29 minutes | 25 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Work from home | 13% | 12% | 11% |
| Median household income | $87,000 | $82,000 | $80,000 |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Hyde Park has chilly, snowy winters and warm summers. July afternoons reach 85°, January nights drop to 17° and about 58 inches of snow falls in a winter.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 62% of U.S. communities. Since 1979, 31 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Hyde Park.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
No broad age group is more than 4 points off the New York average. 18% of Hyde Park residents are under 18. Hyde Park has grown 2% since 2020, to 21,394 residents in the Census Bureau’s 2025 estimate.
| Hyde Park | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 18 | 18% | 20% | 22% |
| Bachelor’s degree or more, 25+ | 34% | 32% | 29% |
| Median age | 40.7 years | 43 years | 40.5 years |
51% women, 49% men
That’s an even split within the survey’s margin of ±2.1 points. Across New York, 51.2% of residents are women.
| Hyde Park | NY | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 6.8% | 11% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 11.5% | 9.5% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 15.6% | 8.9% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 10.2% | 14.2% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 10.9% | 13% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 10.8% | 12.2% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 14.3% | 13.3% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 11.1% | 10.3% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 8.9% | 7.6% | 7% |
| No diploma | 7.1% | 12% | 10.4% |
| High school | 32.8% | 24.3% | 26% |
| Some college | 14.8% | 14.6% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 11.3% | 8.8% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 19.3% | 22.4% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 14.8% | 17.9% | 14.1% |
Census population estimates, 2025 · U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates
Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
7 within 15 miles of the center of Hyde Park
About 13 of every 100 Hyde Park residents are enrolled in college, against 7 across New York.
25 places in Hyde Park on the National Register of Historic Places.
12 notable people were born in Hyde Park.
Town in New York, United States
Hyde Park is a town in Dutchess County, New York, United States, bordering the Hudson River north of Poughkeepsie. Within the town are the hamlets of Hyde Park, East Park, Staatsburg, and Haviland. Hyde Park is known as the hometown of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the United States. Hyde Park is home to the main campus of the Culinary Institute of America, a four-year college for culinary and baking and pastry arts, and the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, the first presidential library in the United States. Hyde Park's population was 21,021 at the 2020 United States census. U.S. Route 9 passes through the town near the Hudson River.
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7 towns share a border with Hyde Park.
Rhinebeck next door grades higher for schools (A− to Hyde Park’s C) and lower for cost of living (D to C).
| Town | NY rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hyde Park | #290 | B | C | A | C | A− |
| Clinton | #392 | B− | D | — | C+ | A |
| Esopus | #590 | C− | C− | — | C | B+ |
| Poughkeepsie | #406 | B− | D | C | B | A− |
| Lloyd | #294 | B | D | B+ | B | A |
| Rhinebeck | #243 | B+ | D | — | A− | A |
| Pleasant Valley | #449 | C+ | C− | — | C+ | A |
| Highland | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Clinton, Esopus, Rhinebeck and Pleasant Valley report no FBI crime data of their own. Highland isn’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Hyde Park with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
By most measures, yes. Hyde Park grades B overall, better than 63% of U.S. towns and #290 of 745 in New York. It grades A− for health, A for safety and C for schools.
The typical home is worth about $331,000, 37% 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 C.
12 notable people were born here, including James Roosevelt and Joan Slonczewski.
