Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Ledyard’s best subject grades are an A− for health, an A+ for history, and an A for civic life; its weakest is a C− for cost of living. Its National Register listings include Jethro Wood House and Aurora Steam Grist Mill. Ledyard has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
Where Ledyard beats most towns.
Jethro Wood HouseCensus counts: 2,427 in 1830, 1,654 in 2020. The archive holds 2 old photos and papers going back to 1904 and 3 maps from 1902 on.
7 places on the National Register of Historic Places.
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within New York), ordered by how far Ledyard is from typical.
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Who provides power, water and the rest in Ledyard, 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 Ledyard.
Ledyard has had 11 paid flood insurance claims since 1979. Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 84% of U.S. communities. One declared disaster, in 2004, has brought federal aid to Ledyard households. FEMA puts 70% of the town’s expected hazard losses down to inland flooding, and 6% to drought.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA disaster declarations and aid · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peachtown Elementary School PrivateLargest elementary schoolGrades PK–8 | Grades PK–8 | 27 | – |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within NY on state tests and graduation
Ledyard: nearly a third of adults have obesity, against 33% in New York’s towns and 35% across U.S. towns. Of 32 CDC measures, Ledyard beats the New York average on 6 and trails it on 1. The share of adults in Ledyard who smoke cigarettes: 11%.
| Ledyard | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 34% | 32% | 33% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 11% | 13% | 14% |
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 20% | 21% | 23% |
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 81% | 81% | 79% |
| What stands out | Ledyard | NY |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing housing insecurity | 9.6% | 14.5% |
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 11.4% | 17.2% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 9.7% | 7.7% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
43% of adults 25 and older hold at least a bachelor’s degree, against 40% across New York. Adults 18 to 34 are 36% of residents (23% statewide); adults 35 to 64 are 30% of residents (39% statewide). The Census Bureau’s 2025 estimate puts Ledyard at 1,350 residents, down 19% since 2020. Its age of the median resident comes in at 31 years.
| Ledyard | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median age | 31 years | 43 years | 40.5 years |
| Under 18 | 16% | 20% | 22% |
| Bachelor’s degree or more, 25+ | 43% | 32% | 29% |
49% women, 51% men
That’s an even split within the survey’s margin of ±2.2 points. Across New York, 51.2% of residents are women.
| Ledyard | NY | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 10.3% | 11% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 5.6% | 9.5% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 25.9% | 8.9% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 9.7% | 14.2% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 7.2% | 13% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 8.2% | 12.2% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 14.2% | 13.3% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 13.4% | 10.3% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 5.5% | 7.6% | 7% |
| No diploma | 4.7% | 12% | 10.4% |
| High school | 23.6% | 24.3% | 26% |
| Some college | 12.7% | 14.6% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 16.4% | 8.8% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 24.4% | 22.4% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 18.1% | 17.9% | 14.1% |
Census population estimates, 2025 · U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates · in a town of 1,400, single groups can be off by several points
The range runs from 17° on a January night to 82° on a July afternoon, with about 56 inches of snow a winter.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Employers in Ledyard added 212 jobs between 2013 and 2023, to 998. One in 5 of the town’s working residents works locally. The town’s typical journey to work stands at 20 minutes, where New York’s towns sit at 25 minutes and U.S. towns at 25 minutes. 6.4% of workers do their job from home locally.
| Ledyard | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Working residents who work in town | 20% | 10% | 8% |
| Average trip to work | 20 minutes | 25 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Below the poverty line | 15% | 9.5% | 9.6% |
| Work from home | 6.4% | 12% | 11% |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
For Ledyard, the concentration of trails is 0.2 miles per square mile. There are 7.4 miles of trail across 1 park or preserve. The biggest place to walk is Long Point State Park (Finger Lakes), 266 acres with 5.2 miles of trail.
| Ledyard | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.2 miles per square mile | 0.4 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 2.8% | 5.2% | 4.3% |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Long Point State Park (Finger Lakes) | 5.2 mi | 266 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
The rent at the middle of the market in Ledyard is $1,276 a month. 77% of Ledyard households own their home.
| Ledyard | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median rent | $1,276 a month | $1,101 a month | $1,185 a month |
| Households that own their home | 77% | 75% | 73% |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Ledyard. Close and well known come first.
in town LakeCayuga Lake
13 mi LakeSeneca Lake
34 mi Stadium & arenaJMA Wireless Dome
14 mi State parkTaughannock Falls State Park
27 mi State parkWatkins Glen State Park
33 mi LakeOnondaga LakeCayuga Lake: The original uploader was Cornellrockey at English Wikipedia. Later versions we, CC BY-SA 2.5 · Seneca Lake: RochesterNY, Public domain · JMA Wireless Dome: Jimhoward03, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Taughannock Falls State Park: Michael C. Rygel, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Watkins Glen State Park: Flickr user: Peter Rivera Stamford, Connecticut https://www.flickr.com/people/ri, CC BY 2.0 · Onondaga Lake: R. A. Nonenmacher, CC BY-SA 4.0
1 within 15 miles of the center of Ledyard
College town 25 of every 100 Ledyard residents are enrolled in college, against 7 across New York.
In a town this size, neighbors are the best guide. Ask them anything.
7 places in Ledyard on the National Register of Historic Places.
Town in New York, United States
Ledyard is a town in Cayuga County, New York, United States. The population was 1,654 at the 2020 census. The town was named in honor of Revolutionary War General Benjamin Ledyard, an early settler of the town. Ledyard is on the western edge of the county and is southwest of Auburn. Ledyard’s principal population center is the Village of Aurora. Wells College was founded as a college for women in 1868 in the Village of Aurora. It announced its permanent closure in 2024.
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Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Yes. The typical home is worth about $249,000, 53% 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−.
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