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Lisle gives you more for your money than most places: a typical home costs about $199K, 3.1 years of the Binghamton metro’s $65K median household income. It grades C+ overall, 482nd of 745 graded towns in New York. The low prices come with trade-offs. The median household income is $69K, and 20% of residents live below the poverty line, and FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 74% of U.S. communities, with inland flooding at the top. 20% of residents live below the poverty line in Lisle, where New York’s towns sit at 9.5% and U.S. towns at 9.6%. The biggest park or preserve is Nanticoke Lake Multiple Use Area, at 335 acres.
Where Lisle beats most towns.
Where Lisle’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 Lisle is from typical.
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Census counts: 3,083 in 1820, a low of 1,219 in 1920, 2,751 in 2010. The archive holds 12 old photos and papers going back to 1855 and 3 maps from 1903 on.
Who provides power, water and the rest in Lisle, 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 Lisle.
Lisle gets more snow than nearly all U.S. towns and sends most of its workers to Triangle and beyond, but it carries more natural-hazard risk than most of New York (mostly inland flooding).
The median property tax bill is $2,455, against $6,582 across New York, another input to its cost-of-living grade.
Values rose 6.8% in the 12 months to September 2026. Lisle’s typical rent stands at $732 a month. In Lisle, just over four in five households live in a home they own.
| Lisle | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median rent | $732 a month | $1,103 a month | $1,185 a month |
| Households that own their home | 82% | 75% | 73% |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Lisle has 114 jobs for its 1,052 working residents: even if every job went to a resident, most would still commute out.
The top destinations are Triangle (11%), Binghamton (8%) and Union (7%). Commuting out is the norm in Lisle: 4% of working residents work locally. For Lisle, the mean commuting time is 28 minutes.
| Lisle | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 28 minutes | 25 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Working residents who work in town | 3.8% | 10% | 8% |
| Median household income | $69,000 | $82,000 | $80,000 |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 93% of New York towns, with expected losses of about $367 per resident a year; that rating is what its C− for hazard risk is built on.
Federal aid has come to Lisle households in 7 declared disasters; the latest was in 2017. FEMA puts 86% of the town’s expected hazard losses down to inland flooding, and 5% to tornadoes. The national flood insurance program has paid 6 claims in the town since 1983.
FEMA disaster declarations and aid · FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
The Binghamton weather station, 13 miles away, records that 87 inches of snow fall in a normal winter, more than in 96% of U.S. towns.
July afternoons reach 80° and January nights drop to 15°.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Nanticoke Lake Multiple Use Area | 0.2 mi | 335 |
| 2. Beaver Dam State Forest | — | 145 |
| 3. Whitney Point Multiple Use Area | — | 38 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
For adults in Lisle, the share who feel lonely is 33%. This New York town does better than the New York average on 2 of 32 CDC measures and worse on 14. Two figures for adults in the town: 15% report frequent physical distress, 37% have high blood pressure.
| Lisle | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 16% | 13% | 14% |
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 15% | 14% | 14% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 37% | 34% | 35% |
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 81% | 81% | 79% |
| What stands out | Lisle | NY |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer uninsured adults | 6.1% | 7.9% |
| Fewer adults facing housing insecurity | 12.1% | 14.5% |
| More adults with COPD | 8.6% | 6% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
1 within 15 miles of the center of Lisle
About 2 of every 100 Lisle residents are enrolled in college, against 7 across New York.
4 notable people were born in Lisle.
Town in New York, United States
Lisle is a town in Broome County, New York, United States. The population was 2,751 at the 2010 census. The town is in the northwestern part of the county and is north of Binghamton. The town includes a village also named Lisle.
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5 towns share a border with Lisle.
| Town | NY rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lisle | #482 | C+ | A | — | C+ | B− |
| Richford | — | — | A− | — | C | B |
| Triangle | #500 | C+ | B+ | — | C+ | B |
| Marathon | — | — | A− | — | C+ | B |
| Berkshire | — | — | B− | — | C | B |
| Nanticoke | — | — | B− | — | C+ | B− |
Richford, Marathon, Berkshire and Nanticoke have fewer than 2,500 residents, so they get subject grades but no overall grade. Lisle, Richford, Triangle, Marathon, Berkshire and Nanticoke report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Lisle with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Lisle grades C+ overall, better than 39% of U.S. towns and #482 of 745 in New York. It grades B− for health and C+ for schools. Jobs & income is its weak spot, with a D.
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 A.
4 notable people were born here, including Thomas J. Paterson and William Edwards.