MinoaNY
A town of 3,624, settled in 1895.
Is Minoa a good place to live?
Minoa is a solid, middle-of-the-road choice. It grades B− overall, ranked 356th of 745 in New York, with no subject far below average. Its best mark is health: it is healthier than 70% of U.S. towns. It also does better than most on incomes: the median household earns $96K. A typical home there costs about $271K, 3.6 years of the Syracuse metro’s $75K median household income. On history, just 49 of New York’s 1,216 towns do worse. Minoa’s average trip to work is 21 minutes, against 25 minutes in New York’s towns and 25 minutes across U.S. towns. Only 10 of the 758 New York towns we compare have a lower share of working residents who work in town than Minoa.
98% of working residents leave Minoa for work
Where Minoa’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Minoa grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within New York), ordered by how far Minoa is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
JMA Wireless Dome and 27 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Minoa. Close and well known come first.
7 mi Stadium & arenaJMA Wireless Dome
10 mi LakeOnondaga Lake
3 mi State parkGreen Lakes State Park
7 mi Stadium & arenaOncenter War Memorial Arena
8 mi Stadium & arenaAlliance Bank Stadium
29 mi National MonumentFort Stanwix National Monument78K visitors a yearPhoto credits
JMA Wireless Dome: Jimhoward03, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Onondaga Lake: R. A. Nonenmacher, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Green Lakes State Park: Ebedgert at English Wikipedia, Public domain · Oncenter War Memorial Arena: Crazyale, Public domain · Alliance Bank Stadium: Quintin Soloviev, CC BY 4.0 · Fort Stanwix National Monument: NPS photo, Public domain
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Moving to Minoa: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Minoa, 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.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Minoa.
Minoa gets more snow than nearly all U.S. towns and has home values climbing faster than New York’s, but it carries more natural-hazard risk than most of New York (mostly inland flooding).
Minoa earns a C+ for cost of living
Home values rose 54% in five years, to about $271K, against 30% across New York.
Typical home values rose 6.3% in the year to September 2026. 84% of Minoa households own their home.
| Minoa | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 84% | 75% | 73% |
| Median rent | $1,027 a month | $1,103 a month | $1,185 a month |
Typical home value
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
With 0.3 jobs for every working resident, most of Minoa’s workers commute out
The average commute for its 1,678 working residents takes 20.6 minutes, against 32.6 across New York.
Most working residents leave Minoa for work: only 2% work in town. 4.4% of residents live below the poverty line in Minoa. Jobs based in Minoa grew to 574 in 2023, 29 more than in 2013.
| Minoa | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Below the poverty line | 4.4% | 9.5% | 9.6% |
| Median household income | $96,000 | $82,000 | $80,000 |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Minoa earns a B+ for health
Minoa beats the New York average on 8 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 5.
| Minoa | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 82% | 81% | 79% |
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 35% | 37% | 36% |
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 36% | 33% | 35% |
| No health insurance, 18–64 (CDC PLACES) | 5.1% | 5.9% | 8.1% |
| What stands out | Minoa | NY |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 11.1% | 17.2% |
| Fewer uninsured adults | 5.1% | 7.9% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 10.5% | 7.7% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Minoa has snowy winters and pleasant summers
The Syracuse Hancock Intl Ap weather station, 5 miles away, records that 128 inches of snow fall in a normal winter, more than in 99% of U.S. towns. The Syracuse Hancock Intl Ap weather station, 5 miles away, records that about 10 days a year reach 90°: fewer than most of the country, but more than 78% of New York places with climate records.
Minoa has chilly, snowy winters and pleasant summers. July afternoons reach 82° and January nights drop to 15°.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
High risk in Minoa, with inland flooding at the top
FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 84% of New York towns, with expected losses of about $513 per resident a year; that rating is what its C for hazard risk is built on.
The FEMA risk score in Minoa is 62 of 100. Since 1996, 8 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Minoa.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Older than New York overall
People 65 and older are 23% of residents (18% statewide); adults 35 to 64 are 33% of residents (39% statewide). Minoa’s median age is 37.1 years. 37% of adults 25 and older have a bachelor’s degree or more, vs 40% across New York.
| Minoa | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median age | 37.1 years | 43 years | 40.5 years |
| Aged 65 or older | 24% | 20% | 18% |
| Bachelor’s degree or more, 25+ | 37% | 32% | 29% |
| Under 18 | 19% | 20% | 22% |
Ages · share of residents
Education · adults 25 and older
Women and men · all residents
45% women, 55% men
That’s an even split within the survey’s margin of ±9.6 points. Across New York, 51.2% of residents are women. Among residents 35 to 44, 81% are men (NY 50%).
| Minoa | NY | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 11.1% | 11% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 8.2% | 9.5% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 5.9% | 8.9% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 17.9% | 14.2% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 13% | 13% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 9% | 12.2% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 11.4% | 13.3% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 12.5% | 10.3% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 10.9% | 7.6% | 7% |
| No diploma | 9.8% | 12% | 10.4% |
| High school | 22% | 24.3% | 26% |
| Some college | 20.1% | 14.6% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 11.4% | 8.8% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 19.3% | 22.4% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 17.4% | 17.9% | 14.1% |
U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates · in a town of 3,600, single groups can be off by several points
| Minoa | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conserved land | 3% | 5.2% | 4.3% |
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.3 miles per square mile | 0.4 | 0.4 |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Minoa Farms Park | 0.4 mi | 16 |
| 2. Lewis Park | — | 4 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Everything we know about Minoa
Colleges nearby
8 within 15 miles of the center of Minoa
About 4 of every 100 Minoa residents are enrolled in college, against 7 across New York.
About Minoa
Village in New York, United States
Minoa is a village in Onondaga County, New York, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 3,657. Minoa is in the northern part of the town of Manlius and is east of Syracuse.
From Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 · facts via Wikidata (CC0)
- Area
- 1.4 sq mi
- Elevation
- 413 ft
- ZIP code
- 13116
Questions about Minoa
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Minoa, NY a good place to live?
Minoa grades B− overall, better than 55% of U.S. towns and #356 of 745 in New York. It grades B+ for health and B− for schools.
Is Minoa, NY expensive?
Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades C+.