What should you know before moving to Sherrill?
Sherrill's standout: crime is low: it reports less per resident than 98% of U.S. towns. Overall it grades A, ranked 102nd of 745 in New York. CDC estimates put its residents' health ahead of 86% of the country and the median household earns $89K. Only 87 of New York’s 1,216 towns score lower on history. 27% of residents are 65 or older in Sherrill, against 20% in New York’s towns and 18% across U.S. towns.
What makes Sherrill stand out
Where Sherrill beats most towns.
Violent crime per 1,000 residents
| Widest gap | Sherrill | NY |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 8.1% | 17.2% |
How Sherrill grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within New York), ordered by how far Sherrill is from typical.
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Moving to Sherrill: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Sherrill, 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.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Sherrill.
Sherrill pairs an A overall with homes cheaper than the New York norm and gets more snow than nearly all U.S. towns, but it carries more natural-hazard risk than most of New York (mostly inland flooding).
For safety, Sherrill earns an A+
Violent crime is rare: 0 reported in 2025, 0 per 1,000 residents.
The property crime rate in Sherrill is 0.7 per 1,000 residents.
| Sherrill | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Property crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 0.7 per 1,000 residents | 7.6 | 9.9 |
| Violent crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 0 per 1,000 residents | 0.8 | 1.6 |
Violent crime per 1,000 residents
Property crime per 1,000 residents
FBI crime data, 2025 · crimes reported to police
Sherrill’s typical home value is about $260K
Sherrill grades A overall with a typical home of about $260K, below the New York typical value; only 33 of the 89 New York towns graded A− or better can say that.
The typical Sherrill home is worth about $260,000, up 5.7% in a year, 51% below the New York typical home.
| Sherrill | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 73% | 75% | 73% |
| Median rent | $1,122 a month | $1,098 a month | $1,185 a month |
Typical home value
Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
For health, Sherrill earns an A
Its widest gap with New York is food insecurity: 8.1% of its 2,470 adults worry about having enough food, against 17.2% statewide.
14% of adults report frequent mental distress in Sherrill. Sherrill beats the New York average on 11 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 2. 30% of adults feel lonely in Sherrill.
| Sherrill | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 14% | 16% | 17% |
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 30% | 32% | 33% |
| Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES) | 14% | 17% | 19% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 10% | 13% | 14% |
| What stands out | Sherrill | NY |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 8.1% | 17.2% |
| Fewer uninsured adults | 4% | 7.9% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 11.2% | 7.7% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Older than New York overall
41% of Sherrill adults 25 and older hold a bachelor’s degree or more. Sherrill has lost 3.5% of its people since 2020, down to 2,973 in the Census Bureau’s 2025 estimate. Sherrill’s median age is 46.9 years.
| Sherrill | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median age | 46.9 years | 42.9 years | 40.5 years |
| Bachelor’s degree or more, 25+ | 41% | 32% | 29% |
| Under 18 | 21% | 20% | 22% |
Ages · share of residents
Education · adults 25 and older
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
That’s an even split within the survey’s margin of ±3.3 points. Across New York, 51.2% of residents are women.
| Sherrill | NY | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 10.3% | 11% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 10.7% | 9.5% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 8.1% | 8.9% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 9% | 14.2% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 9.7% | 13% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 12.5% | 12.2% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 12.5% | 13.3% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 16.9% | 10.3% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 10.1% | 7.6% | 7% |
| No diploma | 4.6% | 12% | 10.4% |
| High school | 20.4% | 24.3% | 26% |
| Some college | 19.9% | 14.6% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 14% | 8.8% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 21.2% | 22.4% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 20% | 17.9% | 14.1% |
Census population estimates, 2025 · U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates · in a town of 3,000, single groups can be off by several points
Snowy winters and pleasant summers in Sherrill
The Camden weather station, 22 miles away, records that 151 inches of snow fall in a normal winter, more than in 99% of U.S. towns.
Sherrill has cold, snowy winters and pleasant summers. July afternoons reach 82° and January nights drop to 14°.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
High risk in Sherrill, with inland flooding at the top
FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 87% of New York towns, with expected losses of about $564 per resident a year; that rating is what its C for hazard risk is built on.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Sherrill has 0.8 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
The average commute for its 1,501 working residents takes 20.7 minutes, against 32.6 across New York. Jobs based here grew from 353 in 2013 to 1,257.
Most working residents leave Sherrill for work: only 7% work in town. Jobs based in Sherrill grew to 1,257 in 2023, 904 more than in 2013. The top destinations are Verona (16%), Oneida (11%) and Vernon (9%).
| Sherrill | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 21 minutes | 25 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Below the poverty line | 5.7% | 9.5% | 9.6% |
| Median household income | $89,000 | $82,000 | $80,000 |
| Working residents who work in town | 6.9% | 10% | 8% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
JMA Wireless Dome and 22 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Sherrill. Close and well known come first.
27 mi Stadium & arenaJMA Wireless Dome
12 mi National MonumentFort Stanwix National Monument78K visitors a year
31 mi LakeOnondaga Lake
in town MuseumOneida Community Mansion House31 mi LandmarkFort Dayton
19 mi State parkGreen Lakes State ParkPhoto credits
JMA Wireless Dome: Jimhoward03, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Fort Stanwix National Monument: NPS photo, Public domain · Onondaga Lake: R. A. Nonenmacher, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Oneida Community Mansion House: scanned by Dave Parker, Public domain · Green Lakes State Park: Ebedgert at English Wikipedia, Public domain
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Everything we know about Sherrill
Colleges nearby
2 within 15 miles of the center of Sherrill
About 5 of every 100 Sherrill residents are enrolled in college, against 7 across New York.
About Sherrill
City in New York, United States
Sherrill is a city in Oneida County, New York, United States. With a population of 3,077 (2020 census), it is the state's least populous city. Sherrill is at the western end of the Town of Vernon on Route 5. Sherrill is referred to as The Silver City.
From Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 · facts via Wikidata (CC0)
- Area
- 2.3 sq mi
- Elevation
- 499 ft
- ZIP code
- 13461
- Area code
- 315
Sherrill’s neighbors
2 towns share a border with Sherrill.
Vernon reports no FBI crime data of its own. Compare Sherrill with a neighbor →
Questions about Sherrill
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Sherrill, NY a good place to live?
By most measures, yes. Sherrill grades A overall, better than 88% of U.S. towns and #102 of 745 in New York. It grades A for health, A+ for safety and B for schools.
Is Sherrill, NY expensive?
That is 3.7 years of the area's median household income ($69,779 across the Utica-Rome, NY metro 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+.
What is Sherrill, NY known for?
2 notable people were born here, including Matt Patricia and Philip Markoff.