Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Lake Luzerne earns a D, 707th of 745 graded towns in New York. What it does well: it has 50 miles of trail and 31% conserved land. 33% of residents live below the poverty line in Lake Luzerne, against 9.5% in New York’s towns and 9.6% across U.S. towns. Most errands need a car: it is less walkable than 95% of U.S. towns. Moreau Lake State Park, at 1,198 acres with 4.5 miles of trail, is the biggest park or preserve.
Where Lake Luzerne beats most towns.
31% of the town is conserved land, across 11 parks and preserves.
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within New York), ordered by how far Lake Luzerne is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Census counts: 1,430 in 1820, a low of 1,018 in 1920, 3,079 in 2020. The archive holds 4 old photos and papers going back to 1879 and 3 maps from 1903 on.
1 place on the National Register of Historic Places.
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Lake Luzerne. Close and well known come first.
9 mi LandmarkFort William Henry
6 mi Theme parkGreat Escape
25 mi LakeLake George
8 mi State parkGrant Cottage State Historic Site
16 mi MuseumNational Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame
18 mi TheatreSaratoga Performing Arts CenterFort William Henry: IrisKawling at en.wikipedia, Public domain · Great Escape: Jared and Corin, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Lake George: Sixlocal, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Grant Cottage State Historic Site: Coingeek at English Wikipedia, Public domain · National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame: Peter Flass, CC BY 3.0 · Saratoga Performing Arts Center: UpstateNYer., CC BY-SA 3.0
Who provides power, water and the rest in Lake Luzerne, 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 Lake Luzerne.
Lake Luzerne is a second-home town and keeps more of its land conserved than most of New York, but it carries more natural-hazard risk than most of New York (mostly inland flooding).
Its 10,755 conserved acres are a larger share of the town than in 97% of New York towns.
Walkers can cover 50 miles of trail in 11 parks and preserves. Lake Luzerne’s trail network density stands at 0.9 miles per square mile.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Luzerne Campground & Day Use Area | 5.4 mi | 846 |
| 2. Moreau Lake State Park | 4.5 mi | 1,198 |
| 3. Hudson River Special Management Area | 3.4 mi | 1,091 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Public schools: the Hadley-Luzerne Central School District. Its two schools are below. The 2 public schools in Lake Luzerne teach 625 students between them.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stuart M Townsend Elementary SchoolLargest public elementary schoolGrades PK–6 | Grades PK–6 | 337 | C− |
| Hadley-Luzerne Junior-Senior High SchoolLargest public high schoolGrades 7–12 | Grades 7–12 | 288 | B |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within NY on state tests and graduation
The median property tax bill is $2,677, against $6,582 across New York, another input to its cost-of-living grade.
Home values are up 3.6% over the year to September 2026. In Lake Luzerne, 82% of households live in a home they own. The town’s rent at the middle of the market comes in at $951 a month.
| Lake Luzerne | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 82% | 75% | 73% |
| Median rent | $951 a month | $1,103 a month | $1,185 a month |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
The average commute for its 1,253 working residents takes 25.9 minutes, against 32.6 across New York.
Since 2013, Lake Luzerne has added 61 jobs, to 534 in 2023. Commuting out is the norm here: 11% of working residents work locally. The top destinations are Queensbury (14%), Saratoga Springs (9%) and Glens Falls (8%). For half of commuters, work is under 13 miles away.
| Lake Luzerne | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $47,000 | $82,000 | $80,000 |
| Average trip to work | 26 minutes | 25 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Working residents who work in town | 11% | 10% | 8% |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
In Lake Luzerne, the July high is 81°F.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Against the 4,529 U.S. towns with household incomes like Lake Luzerne’s, it is healthier than 77%, so its C isn’t only a matter of income.
Lake Luzerne: 28% of adults get no exercise outside work. CDC measures, 32 in all: Lake Luzerne beats New York on 5 and trails on 11.
| Lake Luzerne | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 17% | 14% | 14% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 40% | 34% | 35% |
| Diabetes (CDC PLACES) | 14% | 11% | 12% |
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 14% | 17% | 16% |
| What stands out | Lake Luzerne | NY |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer uninsured adults | 6% | 7.9% |
| Fewer adults facing housing insecurity | 11.8% | 14.5% |
| More adults with COPD | 10.1% | 6% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 82% of New York towns, with expected losses of about $463 per resident a year; that rating is what its C for hazard risk is built on.
The FEMA risk score in Lake Luzerne is 61 of 100. Households here have drawn federal disaster aid in 4 declared disasters, most recently in 2019. Expected losses in Lake Luzerne break down as 71% from inland flooding and 14% from cold waves.
FEMA disaster declarations and aid · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
2 within 15 miles of the center of Lake Luzerne
About 7 of every 100 Lake Luzerne residents are enrolled in college, about the same as New York.
Where Lake Luzerne’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
Town in New York, United States
Lake Luzerne, formerly the Town of Fairfield and then Luzerne, is a town in southern Warren County, New York, United States. The town is located within the Adirondack Park. The town is part of the Glens Falls Metropolitan Statistical Area. Lake Luzerne is west of the city of Glens Falls. The town population was 3,079 at the 2020 census.
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7 towns share a border with Lake Luzerne.
All 6 graded towns on its borders grade higher than its D; Warrensburg (C−) is closest.
| Town | NY rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lake Luzerne | #707 | D | C+ | — | C+ | C |
| Hadley | — | — | A | — | C+ | B− |
| Corinth | #368 | B− | A− | — | C+ | B− |
| Corinth | #370 | B− | A− | — | C+ | C+ |
| Moreau | #340 | B | B− | — | B− | A− |
| Queensbury | #257 | B+ | C− | — | B+ | A− |
| Lake George | #180 | A− | C | — | B | A− |
| Warrensburg | #640 | C− | B | — | C− | B− |
Hadley has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Lake Luzerne, Hadley, Corinth, Corinth, Moreau, Queensbury, Lake George and Warrensburg report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Lake Luzerne with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Lake Luzerne grades D overall, better than 8% of U.S. towns and #707 of 745 in New York. It grades C for health and C+ for schools. Walkability is its weak spot, with a D−.
That is 4.2 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 C+.
