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Schroon’s best subject grades are an A for civic life, the outdoors, and history; its weakest is a C− for schools. 31% of residents are 65 or older in Schroon, where New York’s towns sit at 20% and U.S. towns at 18%. Among 751 New York towns, just one has a lower typical rent than Schroon. Schroon is easier to get around on foot or by transit than 69% of U.S. towns. 70% of the land in Schroon is conserved, above both New York’s towns (5.2%) and U.S. towns (4.3%). The biggest place to walk is Pharaoh Lake Wilderness, 21,538 acres with 35.3 miles of trail. On civic life, just 59 of New York’s 1,187 towns do better. Schroon has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
Where Schroon beats most towns.
1,654 counted in 2010 and 1,880 in 2020; an estimated 1,818 in 2025.
U.S. Census 2010 & 2020 counts · Census Bureau estimate, July 1, 2025
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within New York), ordered by how far Schroon is from typical.
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Census counts: 888 in 1820, a low of 852 in 1920, 1,880 in 2020. The archive holds 8 old photos and papers going back to 1839 and 4 maps from 1897 on.
2 places on the National Register of Historic Places.
Who provides power, water and the rest in Schroon, 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 Schroon.
There are 79 miles of trail across 7 parks and preserves. Schroon’s density of trails stands at 0.6 miles per square mile.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Pharaoh Lake Wilderness | 35.3 mi | 21,538 |
| 2. Hoffman Notch Wilderness | 22.7 mi | 21,354 |
| 3. Hammond Pond Wild Forest | 3.2 mi | 8,500 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Its one school is below. The Schroon Lake Central School District runs its public schools. The town’s only public school teaches 227 students.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Schroon Lake Central SchoolLargest public high schoolGrades PK–12 | Grades PK–12 | 227 | B |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within NY on state tests and graduation
Schroon’s average trip to work comes in at 17 minutes. About one in four of the town’s working residents works in town. Jobs based in Schroon grew to 396 in 2023, 164 more than in 2013. The top destinations are Chester (11%), Ticonderoga (6%) and Elizabethtown (4%).
| Schroon | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Working residents who work in town | 27% | 10% | 8% |
| Average trip to work | 17 minutes | 25 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Median household income | $70,000 | $82,000 | $80,000 |
| Below the poverty line | 7.7% | 9.5% | 9.6% |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
37% of Schroon adults 25 and older hold a bachelor’s degree or more. Since 2020, Schroon has lost 3.2% of its people, to 1,818 in the Census Bureau’s 2025 estimate.
| Schroon | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median age | 54 years | 43 years | 40.5 years |
| Under 18 | 15% | 20% | 22% |
| Bachelor’s degree or more, 25+ | 37% | 32% | 29% |
51% women, 49% men
That’s an even split within the survey’s margin of ±5.1 points. Across New York, 51.2% of residents are women.
| Schroon | NY | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 8.1% | 11% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 7.3% | 9.5% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 3.7% | 8.9% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 11.2% | 14.2% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 14.3% | 13% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 6.5% | 12.2% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 18.2% | 13.3% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 18.6% | 10.3% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 12% | 7.6% | 7% |
| No diploma | 4.2% | 12% | 10.4% |
| High school | 28.1% | 24.3% | 26% |
| Some college | 20.5% | 14.6% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 10% | 8.8% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 17.7% | 22.4% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 19.5% | 17.9% | 14.1% |
Census population estimates, 2025 · U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates · in a town of 1,800, single groups can be off by several points
A winter brings about 105 inches of snow, with January nights at 8° and July afternoons at 80°.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Of 32 CDC measures, Schroon beats the New York average on 10 and trails it on 6. The share of adults in Schroon who have high blood pressure: 40%.
| Schroon | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 29% | 32% | 33% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 40% | 34% | 35% |
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 14% | 16% | 17% |
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 83% | 81% | 79% |
| What stands out | Schroon | NY |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer uninsured adults | 4.7% | 7.9% |
| Fewer adults facing housing insecurity | 8.7% | 14.5% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 12.2% | 7.7% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Households in Schroon have drawn federal disaster aid in 5 declared disasters, most recently in 2023. Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 63% of U.S. communities. Paid flood insurance claims in the town since 1998: 22.
FEMA disaster declarations and aid · FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Schroon. Close and well known come first.
Big draw19 mi LandmarkFort Ticonderoga
20 mi MountainMount Marcy
19 mi LakeLake George
30 mi State parkAdirondack Park
30 mi LandmarkFort William Henry
19 mi LakeLake Tear of the CloudsFort Ticonderoga: Mwanner, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Mount Marcy: Daniel Tripp, Public domain · Lake George: Sixlocal, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Adirondack Park: Original uploader was Mwanner at en.wikipedia Later version(s) were uploaded by, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Fort William Henry: IrisKawling at en.wikipedia, Public domain · Lake Tear of the Clouds: TheKilimanjaro, CC BY-SA 4.0
1 within 15 miles of the center of Schroon
About 2 of every 100 Schroon residents are enrolled in college, against 7 across New York.
70.2% of the town is conserved land, across 7 parks and preserves.
Town in New York, United States
Schroon ( SKROON) is a town in the Adirondack Park, in Essex County, New York, United States. The population was 1,880 at the 2020 census. The largest community in the town is the hamlet of Schroon Lake, located at the northern end of the lake of the same name. The Town of Schroon is in the southern part of Essex County. The town contains two lakes: the northern two-thirds of 9-mile-long (14 km) Schroon Lake, and 5-mile-long (8 km) Paradox Lake. The two lakes are connected by the Schroon River, a southward-flowing tributary of the Hudson River.
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5 towns share a border with Schroon.
| Town | NY rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Schroon | — | — | B− | — | C− | B+ |
| North Hudson | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Ticonderoga | #517 | C | B | — | C+ | B− |
| Crown Point | — | — | B− | — | C− | B |
| Minerva | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Horicon | — | — | B | — | C | B+ |
Schroon, Crown Point and Horicon have fewer than 2,500 residents, so they get subject grades but no overall grade. Schroon, Ticonderoga, Crown Point and Horicon report no FBI crime data of their own. North Hudson and Minerva aren’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Schroon with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
3.7 times the library visits per person than the typical New York town.
Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades B−.
