Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Painted Post’s best subject grades are an A− for walkability and health and an A for history; its weakest is a C− for hazard risk. Only 82 of New York’s 1,216 towns score lower on hazard risk. Painted Post’s average trip to work is 17 minutes, below both the New York town median (25 minutes) and the median of U.S. towns (25 minutes). Painted Post has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
Where Painted Post beats most towns.
Where Painted Post’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 Painted Post is from typical.
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Census counts: 701 in 1880, a peak of 2,570 in 1960, 1,768 in 2020. The archive holds 12 old photos and papers going back to 1873 and 4 maps from 1914 on.
Who provides power, water and the rest in Painted Post, 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 Painted Post.
The typical Painted Post home is worth about $211,000, up 4.1% in a year, 60% below the New York typical home. At $839 a month, Painted Post’s median rent is against $1,101 a month in New York’s towns and $1,185 a month across U.S. towns. 64% of households own their home in Painted Post.
| Painted Post | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 64% | 75% | 73% |
| Median rent | $839 a month | $1,101 a month | $1,185 a month |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Most working residents leave Painted Post for work: only 8% work in town. Since 2013, Painted Post has lost 242 jobs, to 1,252 in 2023. The median household income in Painted Post is $63,000.
| Painted Post | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $63,000 | $82,000 | $80,000 |
| Below the poverty line | 12% | 9.5% | 9.6% |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Painted Post beats the New York average on 7 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 3. 19% of Painted Post adults binge drink.
| Painted Post | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 17% | 16% |
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 30% | 32% | 33% |
| Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES) | 15% | 17% | 19% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 32% | 34% | 35% |
| What stands out | Painted Post | NY |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer older adults who have lost all their teeth | 8.1% | 12.8% |
| Fewer uninsured adults | 5% | 7.9% |
| More adults with depression | 21.7% | 17.5% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Expected storm and flood damage is higher than in 75% of U.S. communities. Since 1982, 9 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Painted Post.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Painted Post has chilly, snowy winters and pleasant summers. July afternoons reach 83°, January nights drop to 16° and about 47 inches of snow falls in a winter.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Children under 18 are 16% of residents (21% statewide). Painted Post’s median age is 45.7 years. Painted Post has lost 3.9% of its people since 2020, down to 1,704 in the Census Bureau’s 2025 estimate.
| Painted Post | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 18 | 16% | 20% | 22% |
| Median age | 45.7 years | 43 years | 40.5 years |
| Bachelor’s degree or more, 25+ | 37% | 32% | 29% |
| Aged 65 or older | 21% | 20% | 18% |
62.0% women, 38.0% men
About 61 men for every 100 women. Across New York, 51.2% of residents are women.
| Painted Post | NY | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 7.7% | 11% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 8.6% | 9.5% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 10.1% | 8.9% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 12.4% | 14.2% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 10.5% | 13% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 14.3% | 12.2% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 15.1% | 13.3% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 13.4% | 10.3% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 7.9% | 7.6% | 7% |
| No diploma | 8.3% | 12% | 10.4% |
| High school | 21.8% | 24.3% | 26% |
| Some college | 17.1% | 14.6% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 16.2% | 8.8% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 21.1% | 22.4% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 15.4% | 17.9% | 14.1% |
Census population estimates, 2025 · U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates · in a town of 1,700, single groups can be off by several points
0.5 miles of trail in 4 parks and preserves.
| Painted Post | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conserved land | 4% | 5.2% | 4.3% |
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.4 miles per square mile | 0.4 | 0.4 |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Hodgeman Park | 0.3 mi | 14 |
| 2. Craig Park | — | 8 |
| 3. Erwin Hollow State Forest | 0.1 mi | 1 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Painted Post. Close and well known come first.
2 mi MuseumCorning Museum of Glass400K visitors a year
35 mi LakeSeneca Lake
19 mi State parkWatkins Glen State Park
37 mi State parkTaughannock Falls State Park
3 mi MuseumRockwell Museum
37 mi Stadium & arenaSchoellkopf FieldCorning Museum of Glass: User:Stilfehler, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Seneca Lake: RochesterNY, Public domain · Watkins Glen State Park: Flickr user: Peter Rivera Stamford, Connecticut https://www.flickr.com/people/ri, CC BY 2.0 · Taughannock Falls State Park: Michael C. Rygel, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Rockwell Museum: W.rose.v, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Schoellkopf Field: Alex Sergeev, (www.asergeev.com) Originally uploaded by en:User:Cornell010, CC BY-SA 3.0
3 within 15 miles of the center of Painted Post
About 3 of every 100 Painted Post residents are enrolled in college, against 7 across New York.
5 notable people were born in Painted Post.
Village in New York, United States
Painted Post is a village in Steuben County, New York. The village is in the town of Erwin, west of the city of Corning. As of the 2020 census, Painted Post had a population of 1,768. The name comes from a Seneca carved post found by explorers at the junction of three local rivers. Corning-Painted Post Airport (7N1) is west of the village. The former town of Painted Post was in 1836 renamed the town of Corning.
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3 towns share a border with Painted Post.
| Town | NY rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Painted Post | — | — | C | — | C+ | A− |
| Gang Mills | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Corning | #459 | C+ | C+ | — | C+ | A− |
| Erwin | #487 | C+ | D | — | C+ | A− |
Painted Post has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Painted Post, Corning and Erwin report no FBI crime data of their own. Gang Mills isn’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Painted Post with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
That is 3.2 years of the area's median household income ($65,887 across the Corning, NY area). Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades C.
5 notable people were born here, including Charles B. Farwell and Willard Nelson Clute.
