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Sullivan gives you more for your money than most places: a typical home costs about $194K, 2.6 years of the Syracuse metro’s $75K median household income. It grades B+ overall, 219th of 745 graded towns in New York. Its National Register listings include Rutger-Steuben Park Historic District and Chittenango Landing Dry Dock Complex. Sullivan’s median rent is $863 a month, below both New York’s towns ($1,103 a month) and U.S. towns ($1,185 a month). The biggest park or preserve is Old Erie Canal State Historic Park, at 137 acres.
Where Sullivan beats most towns.
St. Paul's Church| School | Grades | Students |
|---|---|---|
| Bolivar Road Elementary School | PK–4 | 473 |
| Bridgeport Elementary School | PK–4 | 270 |
| Chittenango Middle School | 5–8 | 558 |
Census counts: 2,932 in 1820, a low of 2,932 in 1820, 14,794 in 2020. The archive holds 26 old photos and papers going back to 2012 and 5 maps from 1895 on.
5 places on the National Register of Historic Places.
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within New York), ordered by how far Sullivan is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Sullivan. Close and well known come first.
13 mi Stadium & arenaJMA Wireless Dome
16 mi LakeOnondaga Lake
5 mi State parkGreen Lakes State Park
23 mi National MonumentFort Stanwix National Monument78K visitors a year
14 mi Stadium & arenaOncenter War Memorial Arena
14 mi Stadium & arenaAlliance Bank StadiumJMA Wireless Dome: Jimhoward03, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Onondaga Lake: R. A. Nonenmacher, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Green Lakes State Park: Ebedgert at English Wikipedia, Public domain · Fort Stanwix National Monument: NPS photo, Public domain · Oncenter War Memorial Arena: Crazyale, Public domain · Alliance Bank Stadium: Quintin Soloviev, CC BY 4.0
Who provides power, water and the rest in Sullivan, 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 Sullivan.
Sullivan gets more snow than nearly all U.S. towns and has less no health insurance than most of New York, but it carries more natural-hazard risk than most of New York (mostly inland flooding).
The average commute for its 6,702 working residents takes 25.8 minutes, against 32.6 across New York.
Most working residents leave Sullivan for work: only 10% work in town. Since 2013, Sullivan has lost 152 jobs, to 2,292 in 2023. The top destinations are Syracuse (18%), DeWitt (14%) and Manlius (6%).
| Sullivan | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Below the poverty line | 8.2% | 9.5% | 9.6% |
| Average trip to work | 26 minutes | 25 minutes | 25 minutes |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Its public schools are run by the Chittenango Central School District. Two of its 4 schools are below, each with why it’s listed. The largest public high school is Chittenango High School, with 592 students.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chittenango Middle SchoolLargest public middle schoolGrades 5–8 | Grades 5–8 | 558 | B− |
| Chittenango High SchoolLargest public high schoolGrades 9–12 | Grades 9–12 | 592 | A |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within NY on state tests and graduation
Its widest gap with New York is no health insurance: 4.9% of those 18–64 have no health insurance, against 7.9% statewide.
Sullivan beats the New York average on 9 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 5. 37% of adults have obesity in Sullivan.
| Sullivan | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 37% | 33% | 35% |
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 82% | 81% | 79% |
| Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES) | 16% | 17% | 19% |
| No health insurance, 18–64 (CDC PLACES) | 4.9% | 5.9% | 8.1% |
| What stands out | Sullivan | NY |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer uninsured adults | 4.9% | 7.9% |
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 10.8% | 17.2% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 10.1% | 7.7% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
| Sullivan | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.2 miles per square mile | 0.4 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 6.8% | 5.2% | 4.3% |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Sullvan Town Park | 2.7 mi | 60 |
| 2. Lions Botanical Park | 0.5 mi | 7 |
| 3. Old Erie Canal State Historic Park | 0.1 mi | 137 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
The Syracuse Hancock Intl Ap weather station, 11 miles away, records that 128 inches of snow fall in a normal winter, more than in 99% of U.S. towns. The Syracuse Hancock Intl Ap weather station, 11 miles away, records that about 10 days a year reach 90°: fewer than most of the country, but more than 78% of New York places with climate records.
Sullivan has cold, snowy winters and pleasant summers. July afternoons reach 82° and January nights drop to 15°.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 87% of New York towns, with expected losses of about $334 per resident a year; that rating is what its C for hazard risk is built on.
Sullivan’s FEMA risk score is 65 of 100. Since 1981, 46 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Sullivan.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
84% of Sullivan households own their home.
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
6 within 15 miles of the center of Sullivan
About 5 of every 100 Sullivan residents are enrolled in college, against 7 across New York.
Where Sullivan’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
Town in Madison County, New York, US
Sullivan is a town in Madison County, New York, United States. The population was 14,794 at the 2020 census. The town is named after Revolutionary War general John Sullivan.
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8 towns share a border with Sullivan.
| Town | NY rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sullivan | #219 | B+ | B | — | B+ | B+ |
| Manlius | #136 | A− | C | B | A− | A |
| Cicero | #289 | B | C+ | B+ | C+ | A− |
| Constantia | #665 | D | B | — | C+ | C+ |
| Vienna | #371 | B− | A− | — | B− | B− |
| Bridgeport | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Lenox | #462 | C+ | B | — | C | B |
| Fenner | — | — | A− | — | A− | A− |
Fenner has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Sullivan, Constantia, Vienna, Lenox and Fenner report no FBI crime data of their own. Bridgeport isn’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Sullivan with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
By most measures, yes. Sullivan grades B+ overall, better than 72% of U.S. towns and #219 of 745 in New York. It grades B+ for health and B+ for schools.
The typical home is worth about $194,000, 63% 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.
2 notable people were born here, including John Kirby Allen and Charles B. Stuart.
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