Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
A regional job hub with 5,625 jobs.
Verona gives you more for your money than most places: homes are within reach, about $197K for a typical one, or 2.8 years of the Utica metro’s $70K median household income. It grades B overall, 281st among New York's 745 graded towns. On the plus side, it has 41 miles of trail. On civic life, just 109 of New York’s 1,187 towns do worse. Verona Beach State Park, at 1,688 acres with 18.5 miles of trail, is the biggest park or preserve. Verona’s average trip to work is 19 minutes, where New York’s towns sit at 25 minutes and U.S. towns at 25 minutes.
Where Verona beats most towns.
Where Verona’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 Verona is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Census counts: 1,014 in 1810, a low of 1,014 in 1810, 6,293 in 2010. The archive holds 5 old photos and papers going back to 2004 and 5 maps from 1895 on.
Who provides power, water and the rest in Verona, 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 Verona.
Verona draws workers from Utica and beyond, gets more snow than nearly all U.S. towns and has less no health insurance than most of New York.
5,625 jobs are based in Verona, 2.2 for every working resident, so most of the people who work here commute in. The average commute takes 19.4 minutes, against 32.6 across New York.
Commuting out is the norm in Verona: 17% of working residents work locally. 3.8% of Verona workers work remotely from home. Half the trips to work are shorter than 15 miles. The top destinations are Oneida (10%), Rome (8%) and Syracuse (6%).
| Verona | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 3.8% | 12% | 11% |
| Working residents who work in town | 17% | 10% | 8% |
| Below the poverty line | 6.7% | 9.5% | 9.6% |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
The largest public high school is Vernon-Verona-Sherrill Senior High School, with 584 students. The Sherrill City School District runs its public schools. Below: Two of its 5 schools, each with why it was picked.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| J D George Elementary SchoolLargest public elementary schoolGrades PK–6 | Grades PK–6 | 414 | C− |
| Vernon-Verona-Sherrill Senior High SchoolLargest public high schoolGrades 9–12 | Grades 9–12 | 584 | B+ |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within NY on state tests and graduation
Verona’s trail network density is 0.6 miles per square mile. It has 4 parks and preserves, 1,854 acres in all.
| Verona | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.6 miles per square mile | 0.4 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 6.6% | 5.2% | 4.3% |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Verona Beach State Park | 18.5 mi | 1,688 |
| 2. Old Erie Canal State Historic Park | 4.3 mi | 162 |
| 3. Verona Park | — | 3 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Its widest gap with New York is no health insurance: 5.1% of those 18–64 have no health insurance, against 7.9% statewide.
36% of adults have obesity in Verona. Against the New York average, Verona comes out ahead on 6 CDC measures out of 32, and behind on 6.
| Verona | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 18% | 17% | 16% |
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 39% | 37% | 36% |
| No health insurance, 18–64 (CDC PLACES) | 5.1% | 5.9% | 8.1% |
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 36% | 33% | 35% |
| What stands out | Verona | NY |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer uninsured adults | 5.1% | 7.9% |
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 11.5% | 17.2% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 9.7% | 7.7% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
The Camden weather station, 16 miles away, records that 151 inches of snow fall in a normal winter, more than in 99% of U.S. towns.
For Verona, the peak summer temperature is 82°F.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
The share of households in Verona who own their home: 91%. The typical rent here is $797 a month.
| Verona | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 91% | 75% | 73% |
| Median rent | $797 a month | $1,103 a month | $1,185 a month |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Flood insurance has paid out on 10 claims in Verona since 1993. Storm and flood damage is expected to run higher than in half of U.S. communities. Households in the town have drawn federal disaster aid in 7 declared disasters, most recently in 2017. Expected losses in Verona break down as 79% from inland flooding and 7% from cold waves.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA disaster declarations and aid · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Verona. Close and well known come first.
27 mi Stadium & arenaJMA Wireless Dome
9 mi National MonumentFort Stanwix National Monument78K visitors a year
30 mi LakeOnondaga Lake33 mi LandmarkFort Dayton
19 mi State parkGreen Lakes State Park
7 mi MuseumOneida Community Mansion HouseJMA 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 · Green Lakes State Park: Ebedgert at English Wikipedia, Public domain · Oneida Community Mansion House: scanned by Dave Parker, Public domain
1 within 15 miles of the center of Verona
About 2 of every 100 Verona residents are enrolled in college, against 7 across New York.
5 notable people were born in Verona.
Town in New York, United States
Verona (called Te-o-na-ta-le, "pine forest" by the Haudenosaunee) is a town in southwestern Oneida County, New York, United States. The population was 6,293 at the 2010 census. The town was named after Verona, Italy. Verona is located 8 miles (13 km) south of the city of Rome.
From Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 · facts via Wikidata (CC0)
7 towns share a border with Verona.
| Town | NY rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Verona | #281 | B | B+ | — | B | B+ |
| Rome | #687 | D | B− | C | D | C− |
| Vienna | #371 | B− | A− | — | B− | B− |
| Oneida | #623 | C− | B | D | C | B− |
| Durhamville | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Lenox | #462 | C+ | B | — | C | B |
| Vernon | #293 | B | B | — | B | B |
| Westmoreland | #150 | A− | B− | — | A− | B |
Verona, Vienna, Lenox, Vernon and Westmoreland report no FBI crime data of their own. Durhamville isn’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Verona with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
By most measures, yes. Verona grades B overall, better than 65% of U.S. towns and #281 of 745 in New York. It grades B+ for health and B for schools.
Not for the area. The typical home is worth about $197,000, 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+.
5 notable people were born here, including Russell Sage and Henry Cullen Adams.
.jpg){kind=link}
