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Tioga gives you more for your money than most places: a typical home costs about $125K, 1.9 years of the Binghamton metro’s $65K median household income. It grades B− overall, ranked 403rd of 745 in New York. The low prices come with trade-offs. The median household income is $69K, and 11% of residents live below the poverty line. Only 14 of New York’s 1,216 towns score lower on the outdoors. 13% of residents are under 18 in Tioga, against 20% in New York’s towns and 22% across U.S. towns. Its National Register listings include Vesper Cliff and Tioga Centre General Store.
Where Tioga beats most towns.
Where Tioga’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 Tioga is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Census counts: 1,816 in 1820, a low of 1,411 in 1830, 4,455 in 2020. The archive holds 5 old photos and papers going back to 2018 and 3 maps from 1903 on.
4 places on the National Register of Historic Places.
Who provides power, water and the rest in Tioga, 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 Tioga.
Tioga is healthier than towns with similar incomes and has homes that are cheap against local pay, but it carries more natural-hazard risk than most of New York (mostly inland flooding).
Its B+ is the best School Grade on its borders; Nichols (B) is next.
Its public schools are run by the Tioga Central School District. Two of its 3 schools are below, each with why it’s listed.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tioga Elementary SchoolLargest public elementary schoolGrades PK–4 | Grades PK–4 | 323 | B− |
| Tioga Senior High SchoolLargest public high schoolGrades 9–12 | Grades 9–12 | 273 | A+ |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within NY on state tests and graduation
Tioga has 469 jobs for its 1,727 working residents: even if every job went to a resident, most would still commute out. The average commute takes 20.8 minutes, against 32.6 across New York.
Most working residents leave Tioga for work: only 6% work in town. Since 2013, Tioga has added 117 jobs, to 469 in 2023. Tioga’s average trip to work is 21 minutes.
| Tioga | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 21 minutes | 25 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Median household income | $69,000 | $82,000 | $80,000 |
| Working residents who work in town | 5.7% | 10% | 8% |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Tioga has chilly, snowy winters and pleasant summers. July afternoons reach 81°, January nights drop to 16° and about 49 inches of snow falls in a winter.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 82% of New York towns, with expected losses of about $638 per resident a year; that rating is what its C for hazard risk is built on. 110 flood insurance claims have been filed here, and 20 properties have flooded more than once.
The FEMA risk score in Tioga is 61 of 100. Since 1979, 110 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Tioga.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Against the 10,396 U.S. towns with household incomes like Tioga’s, it is healthier than 77%, so its B isn’t only a matter of income.
Tioga beats the New York average on 5 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 6. 39% of adults sleep under 7 hours in Tioga.
| Tioga | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 39% | 37% | 36% |
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 31% | 33% | 35% |
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 31% | 32% | 33% |
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 15% | 14% | 14% |
| What stands out | Tioga | NY |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer uninsured adults | 5.9% | 7.9% |
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 13.4% | 17.2% |
| More adults with COPD | 8.2% | 6% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Ransom Park | 0.4 mi | 10 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
At 1.9 years of the Binghamton metro’s $65K median household income, the typical home costs less against local pay than in 92% of New York towns; that ratio is one input to its A− for cost of living. The median property tax bill is $2,614, against $6,582 across New York, another input to its cost-of-living grade.
88% of Tioga households own their home.
| Tioga | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 88% | 75% | 73% |
| Median rent | $847 a month | $1,103 a month | $1,185 a month |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
None within 15 miles of Tioga; the nearest are
About 3 of every 100 Tioga residents are enrolled in college, against 7 across New York.
4 places in Tioga on the National Register of Historic Places.
Town in New York, United States
Tioga is a town in Tioga County, New York, United States. The population was 4,455 at the 2020 census. The town is in the southwestern part of the county and lies between Elmira and Binghamton. Tioga is situated in the Southern Tier District of New York.
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5 towns share a border with Tioga.
| Town | NY rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tioga | #403 | B− | A− | — | B+ | B |
| Owego | #379 | B− | C+ | — | B | B+ |
| Nichols | — | — | B | — | B | B |
| Owego | #558 | C | C | C+ | B | C+ |
| Barton | #647 | C− | C+ | — | C+ | B |
| Candor | #667 | D | B | — | C+ | C+ |
Nichols has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Tioga, Owego, Nichols, Barton and Candor report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Tioga with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Tioga grades B− overall, better than 48% of U.S. towns and #403 of 745 in New York. It grades B for health and B+ for schools. Walkability is its weak spot, with a C−.
Not for the area. The typical home is worth about $125,000, 76% 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 A−.
