Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Moreau is a solid, middle-of-the-road choice. It grades B overall, 340th of 745 graded towns in New York, with no subject far below average. Its best mark is health: residents are healthier than 78% of U.S. towns on CDC estimates. A typical home there costs about $250K, 2.8 years of the Albany metro’s $88K median household income. 20% of the land in Moreau is conserved, above both the New York town median (5.2%) and the median of U.S. towns (4.3%). Moreau Lake State Park, at 4,126 acres with 36.1 miles of trail, is the biggest park or preserve.
Where Moreau beats most towns.
Grant Cottage is a National Historic Landmark, the National Register’s top tier.
Census counts: 1,549 in 1820, 16,202 in 2020. The archive holds 3 old photos and papers going back to 1820 and 5 maps from 1895 on.
4 places on the National Register of Historic Places.
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within New York), ordered by how far Moreau is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Moreau. Close and well known come first.
in town State parkGrant Cottage State Historic Site
7 mi Theme parkGreat Escape
12 mi LandmarkFort William Henry
27 mi LakeLake George
13 mi MuseumNational Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame
15 mi TheatreSaratoga Performing Arts CenterGrant Cottage State Historic Site: Coingeek at English Wikipedia, Public domain · Great Escape: Jared and Corin, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Fort William Henry: IrisKawling at en.wikipedia, Public domain · Lake George: Sixlocal, CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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 Moreau, 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 Moreau.
Moreau has less food insecurity than most of New York and has commutes shorter than most of New York.
At 1.1 miles per square mile, Moreau’s trail density is above both New York’s towns (0.4) and U.S. towns (0.4). 48 miles of trail in 10 parks and preserves.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Moreau Lake State Park | 36.1 mi | 4,126 |
| 2. Town of Moreau | 1.1 mi | 124 |
| 3. Saratoga Sand Plains County Forest | — | 266 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Its public schools are run by the South Glens Falls Central School District. Two of its 4 schools are below, each with why it’s listed. The largest public high school is South Glens Falls Senior High School, with 939 students.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oliver W Winch Middle SchoolLargest public middle schoolGrades 6–8 | Grades 6–8 | 631 | C |
| South Glens Falls Senior High SchoolLargest public high schoolGrades 9–12 | Grades 9–12 | 939 | A |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within NY on state tests and graduation
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 91% of U.S. communities. Since 1998, 6 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Moreau.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Its widest gap with New York is food insecurity: 10.5% of its 11,072 adults worry about having enough food, against 17.2% statewide.
32% of Moreau adults sleep under 7 hours. Moreau beats the New York average on 12 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 4. 15% of Moreau adults say their health is fair or poor.
| Moreau | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 32% | 37% | 36% |
| Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES) | 15% | 17% | 19% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 22% | 25% | 25% |
| Diabetes (CDC PLACES) | 9.9% | 11% | 12% |
| What stands out | Moreau | NY |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 10.5% | 17.2% |
| Fewer uninsured adults | 5% | 7.9% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 9.6% | 7.7% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
The average commute for its 8,115 working residents takes 22.4 minutes, against 32.6 across New York.
Most working residents leave Moreau for work: only 11% work in town. Since 2013, Moreau has added 558 jobs, to 3,621 in 2023. 13% of residents live below the poverty line in Moreau.
| Moreau | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Below the poverty line | 13% | 9.5% | 9.6% |
| Average trip to work | 22 minutes | 25 minutes | 25 minutes |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Moreau has cold, snowy winters and pleasant summers. July afternoons reach 83°, January nights drop to 12° and about 64 inches of snow falls in a winter.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
3 within 15 miles of the center of Moreau
About 4 of every 100 Moreau residents are enrolled in college, against 7 across New York.
14,728 counted in 2010 and 16,202 in 2020; an estimated 16,818 in 2025.
U.S. Census 2010 & 2020 counts · Census Bureau estimate, July 1, 2025
4 places in Moreau on the National Register of Historic Places.
Town in New York, United States
Moreau is a town in Saratoga County, New York, United States. The population was 16,202 at the 2020 census. The town is located in the northeast part of the county, north of Saratoga Springs. Moreau is named after Jean Victor Moreau, a French general, who visited the area just before the town was formed. The town contains a village called South Glens Falls.
From Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 · facts via Wikidata (CC0)
10 towns share a border with Moreau.
| Town | NY rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moreau | #340 | B | B− | — | B− | A− |
| Queensbury | #257 | B+ | C− | — | B+ | A− |
| Fort Edward | #641 | C− | B− | — | C− | B+ |
| Lake Luzerne | #707 | D | C+ | — | C+ | C |
| West Glens Falls | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Glens Falls | #393 | B− | C | B+ | C | B |
| Fort Edward | #607 | C− | C+ | — | C | B |
| South Glens Falls | #402 | B− | C+ | B | B− | B− |
Moreau, Queensbury, Fort Edward, Lake Luzerne and Fort Edward report no FBI crime data of their own. West Glens Falls isn’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Moreau with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
By most measures, yes. Moreau grades B overall, better than 57% of U.S. towns and #340 of 745 in New York. It grades A− for health and B− for schools.
The typical home is worth about $250,000, 52% 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 B−.
2 notable people were born here, including John Hazard Reynolds and Henry Franklin Bronson.
