Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
34% more nonprofits per person than the typical New York town.
Stockport is a solid, middle-of-the-road choice. It grades C overall, 583rd among New York's 745 graded towns, with no subject far below average. Its best mark is health: residents are healthier than 55% of U.S. towns on CDC estimates. A typical home there costs about $248K, 3 years of the Hudson area’s $82K median household income. 26% of the land in Stockport is conserved, above both the New York town median (5.2%) and the median of U.S. towns (4.3%). Stockport has 2 places on the National Register of Historic Places, among them Church of St. John the Evangelist and Smith Octagon House. Stockport's civic life (library use, community groups, volunteering) is stronger than in 86% of U.S. towns.
Where Stockport beats most towns.
Church of St. John the EvangelistWhere Stockport’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 Stockport is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Census counts: 1,815 in 1840, 2,670 in 2020. The archive holds 6 old photos and papers going back to 1873 and 3 maps from 1933 on.
2 places on the National Register of Historic Places.
Who provides power, water and the rest in Stockport, 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 Stockport.
Stockport sends most of its workers to Hudson and beyond and owes part of its health edge to its incomes, but it carries more natural-hazard risk than most of New York (mostly inland flooding).
1.7 miles of trail in 6 parks and preserves. The biggest park or preserve is Stockport Flats Estuarine Sanctuary, at 466 acres. Stockport’s trail density is 0.1 miles per square mile, below both New York’s towns (0.4) and U.S. towns (0.4).
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Stockport Wildlife Management Area | 1.1 mi | 286 |
| 2. Charles Flood Wildlife Management Area at The Empire Brickyard | 0.3 mi | 587 |
| 3. Stockport Flats Estuarine Sanctuary | — | 466 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Stockport has 244 jobs for its 1,174 working residents: even if every job went to a resident, most would still commute out.
Most working residents leave Stockport for work: only 4% work in town. Since 2013, Stockport has added 36 jobs, to 244 in 2023. The median household income in Stockport is $99,000.
| Stockport | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $99,000 | $82,000 | $80,000 |
| Average trip to work | 28 minutes | 25 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Working residents who work in town | 4.2% | 10% | 8% |
| Below the poverty line | 7.1% | 9.5% | 9.6% |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 89% of New York towns, with expected losses of about $366 per resident a year; that rating is what its C for hazard risk is built on.
Stockport’s FEMA risk score is 68 of 100. Since 1990, 22 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Stockport.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Stockport has chilly, snowy winters and warm summers. July afternoons reach 85°, January nights drop to 17° and about 31 inches of snow falls in a winter.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Against the 8,742 U.S. towns with household incomes like Stockport’s, it is less healthy than 66%: its national edge comes with its incomes.
Stockport beats the New York average on 0 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 7. 20% of Stockport adults have been diagnosed with depression.
| Stockport | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 20% | 21% | 23% |
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 15% | 17% | 16% |
| Diabetes (CDC PLACES) | 12% | 11% | 12% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 27% | 25% | 25% |
| What stands out | Stockport | NY |
|---|---|---|
| More adults with COPD | 8.4% | 6% |
| More smokers | 14.5% | 11.3% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 9.8% | 7.7% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Stockport. Close and well known come first.
8 mi MuseumOlana State Historic Site
39 mi National Historic SiteHome of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site102K visitors a year
37 mi MountainMount Greylock
23 mi TheatreTanglewood
4 mi National Historic SiteMartin Van Buren National Historic Site16K visitors a year
22 mi MuseumNorman Rockwell MuseumOlana State Historic Site: Netniks, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site: Crunch, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Mount Greylock: Jstergis, CC BY 3.0 · Tanglewood: Daderot., CC BY-SA 3.0 · Martin Van Buren National Historic Site: Rolf Müller, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Norman Rockwell Museum: User:Rmrfstar, CC BY 2.5
1 within 15 miles of the center of Stockport
About 2 of every 100 Stockport residents are enrolled in college, against 7 across New York.
Town in New York, United States
Stockport is a town in Columbia County, New York, United States. The population was 2,670 at the 2020 census, down from 2,815 at the 2010 census. Stockport is in the northwestern part of the county, along the Hudson River.
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7 towns share a border with Stockport.
| Town | NY rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stockport | #583 | C | C+ | — | C+ | B− |
| Stuyvesant | — | — | B | — | B+ | A− |
| Coxsackie | #586 | C | C+ | — | C | B |
| Ghent | #530 | C | C− | — | C+ | B+ |
| Greenport | #703 | D | D | — | C− | B− |
| Stottville | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Athens | #642 | C− | C− | — | C | B |
| Claverack | #602 | C− | C | — | C− | B |
Stuyvesant has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Stockport, Stuyvesant, Coxsackie, Ghent, Greenport, Athens and Claverack report no FBI crime data of their own. Stottville isn’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Stockport with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Stockport grades C overall, better than 26% of U.S. towns and #583 of 745 in New York. It grades B− for health and C+ for schools.
The typical home is worth about $248,000, 53% 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 C+.
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