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Scriba gives you more for your money than most places: a typical home costs about $159K, 2.1 years of the Syracuse metro’s $75K median household income. It grades B overall, ranked 351st of 745 in New York. On the plus side, natural-hazard risk is low. Riverside Cemetery is on the National Register of Historic Places. Scriba’s typical July afternoon high is 80°F, where New York’s towns sit at 81°F and U.S. towns at 85°F. The biggest park or preserve is Scriba Town Park, at 64 acres.
Where Scriba beats most towns.
Where Scriba’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 Scriba is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Census counts: 899 in 1820, a low of 899 in 1820, 6,840 in 2010. The archive holds 4 old photos and papers going back to 1867 and 3 maps from 1900 on.
1 place on the National Register of Historic Places.
Who provides power, water and the rest in Scriba, 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 Scriba.
Scriba gets more snow than nearly all U.S. towns and has homes that are cheap against local pay, but it has lost a quarter or more of its jobs in ten years.
Of the losses FEMA expects in Scriba, 75% come from inland flooding. FEMA expects less storm and flood damage here than in 91% of U.S. communities. This New York town has had 12 paid flood insurance claims since 1979.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Jobs based here fell from 2,449 in 2013 to 1,775. The average commute for its 2,847 working residents takes 21.4 minutes, against 32.6 across New York.
Most working residents leave Scriba for work: only 10% work in town. Between 2013 and 2023, jobs in Scriba dropped by 674, to 1,775. 6.6% of Scriba workers work from home. The top destinations are Oswego (26%), Oswego (8%) and Syracuse (8%).
| Scriba | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 6.6% | 12% | 11% |
| Average trip to work | 21 minutes | 25 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Median household income | $92,000 | $82,000 | $80,000 |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
In 1 park or preserve, walkers have 9.0 miles of trail. The density of trails in Scriba is 0.2 miles per square mile.
| Scriba | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.2 miles per square mile | 0.4 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 3.4% | 5.2% | 4.3% |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Scriba Town Park | — | 64 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
The Oswego weather station, 6 miles away, records that 140 inches of snow fall in a normal winter, more than in 99% of U.S. towns.
Scriba’s January low stands at 16°F.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
The share of adults in Scriba who get no exercise outside work: 27%. The town does better than the New York average on 4 of 32 CDC measures and worse on 5. In Scriba, two in five adults sleep under 7 hours, and 18% binge drink.
| Scriba | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 16% | 17% |
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 40% | 37% | 36% |
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 18% | 17% | 16% |
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 34% | 32% | 33% |
| What stands out | Scriba | NY |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer uninsured adults | 6.2% | 7.9% |
| Fewer adults facing housing insecurity | 12.2% | 14.5% |
| More adults with depression | 22.1% | 17.5% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
At 2.1 years of the Syracuse metro’s $75K median household income, the typical home costs less against local pay than in 86% of New York towns; that ratio is one input to its B+ for cost of living.
In Scriba, the median rent is $980 a month. Just over four in five households live in a home they own here.
| Scriba | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 82% | 75% | 73% |
| Median rent | $980 a month | $1,103 a month | $1,185 a month |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Scriba. Close and well known come first.
32 mi Stadium & arenaJMA Wireless Dome
28 mi LakeOnondaga Lake
5 mi LandmarkFort Ontario
36 mi State parkGreen Lakes State Park
32 mi Stadium & arenaOncenter War Memorial Arena
29 mi Stadium & arenaAlliance Bank StadiumJMA Wireless Dome: Jimhoward03, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Onondaga Lake: R. A. Nonenmacher, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Fort Ontario: Ad Meskens, CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
1 within 15 miles of the center of Scriba
About 1 of every 100 Scriba residents are enrolled in college, against 7 across New York.
Town in New York, United States
Scriba is a town in Oswego County, New York, United States. The population was 6,840 at the 2010 census. The town is named after landowner George Scriba. The Town of Scriba is east of the City of Oswego. The town was created in 1811 from the Town of Volney, then known as the Town of Fredericksburg. The town of Scriba includes an Oswego County fire department, a municipal building, highway department, justice center, buildings and grounds department and a water department, as well as a child care center, town park and sunset bay park with lake access. The Nine Mile Point Nuclear Generating Station and the James A. FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant are both also located within the towns territo…
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4 towns share a border with Scriba.
It grades higher overall than all 3 graded towns on its borders; New Haven (C+) comes closest.
| Town | NY rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scriba | #351 | B | B+ | — | C | B |
| New Haven | #499 | C+ | A− | — | C | B− |
| Oswego | #668 | D | C+ | D | C− | C+ |
| Minetto | — | — | B+ | — | C− | B |
| Volney | #679 | D | B | — | C− | C |
Minetto has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Scriba, New Haven, Minetto and Volney report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Scriba with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
By most measures, yes. Scriba grades B overall, better than 55% of U.S. towns and #351 of 745 in New York. It grades B for health and C for schools.
Not for the area. The typical home is worth about $159,000, 70% 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+.
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