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A town of 3,449.
Mooers gives you more for your money than most places: a typical home costs about $192K, 2.7 years of the Plattsburgh area’s $71K median household income. It grades C+ overall, 455th of 745 graded towns in New York. Mooers’ January low is 8°F, below both New York’s towns (16°F) and U.S. towns (22°F). Mooers Riverside Cemetery is on the National Register of Historic Places. Most errands need a car: it is less walkable than 71% of U.S. towns.
Where Mooers beats most towns.
Where Mooers’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 Mooers is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Census counts: 567 in 1820, 3,592 in 2010. The archive holds 12 old photos and papers going back to 1930 and 5 maps from 1895 on.
1 place on the National Register of Historic Places.
Explore the history →Who provides power, water and the rest in Mooers, 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 Mooers.
Mooers gets more snow than nearly all U.S. towns, but it carries more natural-hazard risk than most of New York (mostly inland flooding) and is a long drive from an emergency room.
The median property tax bill is $2,807, against $6,582 across New York, another input to its cost-of-living grade.
92% of Mooers households own their home. Typical home values rose 8.9% in the year to September 2026. The median rent in Mooers is $840 a month.
| Mooers | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 92% | 75% | 73% |
| Median rent | $840 a month | $1,103 a month | $1,185 a month |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Its public schools are run by the Northeastern Clinton Central School District. Its one school is below.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mooers Elementary SchoolLargest public elementary schoolGrades PK–5 | Grades PK–5 | 295 | B+ |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within NY on state tests and graduation
Mooers has 264 jobs for its 1,374 working residents: even if every job went to a resident, most would still commute out. The average commute takes 24.3 minutes, against 32.6 across New York.
Most working residents leave Mooers for work: only 5% work in town. Since 2013, Mooers has added 99 jobs, to 264 in 2023. Mooers’ median household income is $61,000.
| Mooers | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $61,000 | $82,000 | $80,000 |
| Working residents who work in town | 4.9% | 10% | 8% |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
The nearest emergency room, The University of Vermont Health Network - Champl, is 20 miles away in a straight line. Against the 9,277 U.S. towns with household incomes like Mooers’s, it is less healthy than 54%, so its C isn’t only a matter of income.
Mooers beats the New York average on 0 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 11. 18% of adults smoke cigarettes in Mooers.
| Mooers | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 18% | 13% | 14% |
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 16% | 14% | 14% |
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 16% | 17% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 30% | 25% | 25% |
| What stands out | Mooers | NY |
|---|---|---|
| More smokers | 18% | 11.3% |
| More adults with COPD | 9.2% | 6% |
| More adults with depression | 23.8% | 17.5% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
The Ellenburg Depot weather station, 9 miles away, records that 107 inches of snow fall in a normal winter, more than in 98% of U.S. towns. The Ellenburg Depot weather station, 9 miles away, records that about 2 days a year reach 90°, fewer than in 95% of U.S. towns.
Mooers has cold, snowy winters and pleasant summers. July afternoons reach 80° and January nights drop to 8°.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
14 miles of trail in 3 parks and preserves. Gulf Unique Area, at 591 acres with 1.2 miles of trail, is the biggest park or preserve.
| Mooers | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.2 miles per square mile | 0.4 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 3.6% | 5.2% | 4.3% |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Gulf Unique Area | 1.2 mi | 591 |
| 2. Clinton Mooers Forest Preserve Detached Parcel | 0.2 mi | 442 |
| 3. Clinton Forest Preserve Detached Parcel | — | 200 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 86% of New York towns, with expected losses of about $516 per resident a year; that rating is what its C for hazard risk is built on.
Since 1984, 4 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Mooers.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
None within 15 miles of Mooers; the nearest are
About 7 of every 100 Mooers residents are enrolled in college, about the same as New York.
4 notable people were born in Mooers.
Town in New York, United States
Mooers is a town in Clinton County, New York, United States. The population was 3,592 at the 2010 census. The town is named after Benjamin Mooers, an early settler. The town forms part of the northern border of Clinton County and is northwest of Plattsburgh.
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3 towns share a border with Mooers.
| Town | NY rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mooers | #455 | C+ | A− | — | B | C |
| Altona | #685 | D | A− | — | C | C |
| Champlain | #556 | C | B− | — | B+ | C+ |
| Clinton | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Mooers, Altona and Champlain report no FBI crime data of their own. Clinton isn’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Mooers with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Mooers grades C+ overall, better than 42% of U.S. towns and #455 of 745 in New York. It grades C for health and B for schools.
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−.
Mooers has 1 place on the National Register of Historic Places. 4 notable people were born here, including Ashbel P. Fitch and John C. Churchill.
