Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Vienna gives you more for your money than most places: a typical home costs about $125K, 1.8 years of the Utica metro’s $70K median household income. It grades B− overall, 371st among New York's 745 graded towns. The low prices come with trade-offs. FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 83% of U.S. communities, with inland flooding at the top. Vienna’s median age is 53.5 years, against 42.9 years in New York’s towns and 40.5 years across U.S. towns. The biggest park or preserve is Oneida Forest Preserve Detached Parcel, at 883 acres.
Where Vienna beats most towns.
Where Vienna’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 Vienna is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Census counts: 1,307 in 1820, a low of 1,307 in 1820, 5,440 in 2010. The archive holds 6 maps from 1895 on.
1 place on the National Register of Historic Places.
Who provides power, water and the rest in Vienna, 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 Vienna.
Vienna is a second-home town 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).
FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 98% of New York towns, with expected losses of about $607 per resident a year; that rating is what its D for hazard risk is built on.
Since 1984, 22 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Vienna.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Its public schools are run by the Camden Central School District. Its one school is below.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| McConnellsville Elementary SchoolLargest public elementary schoolGrades PK–4 | Grades PK–4 | 322 | C− |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within NY on state tests and graduation
Vienna has 421 jobs for its 1,968 working residents: even if every job went to a resident, most would still commute out.
Most working residents leave Vienna for work: only 7% work in town. The average trip to work in Vienna is 28 minutes. The top destinations are Rome (10%), Syracuse (8%) and Camden (7%).
| Vienna | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 28 minutes | 25 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Working residents who work in town | 6.7% | 10% | 8% |
| Below the poverty line | 11% | 9.5% | 9.6% |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
The Camden weather station, 8 miles away, records that 151 inches of snow fall in a normal winter, more than in 99% of U.S. towns.
Vienna has cold, snowy winters and pleasant summers. July afternoons reach 81° and January nights drop to 14°.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
3.3 miles of trail in 2 parks and preserves.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Oneida Forest Preserve Detached Parcel | — | 883 |
| 2. Stone Barn State Forest | — | 589 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Vienna beats the New York average on 6 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 8. 39% of adults sleep under 7 hours in Vienna.
| Vienna | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 39% | 37% | 36% |
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 18% | 17% | 16% |
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 36% | 33% | 35% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 15% | 13% | 14% |
| What stands out | Vienna | NY |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer uninsured adults | 5.7% | 7.9% |
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 12.8% | 17.2% |
| More adults with COPD | 8.2% | 6% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Vienna. Close and well known come first.
23 mi Stadium & arenaJMA Wireless Dome
24 mi LakeOnondaga Lake
16 mi National MonumentFort Stanwix National Monument78K visitors a year
16 mi State parkGreen Lakes State Park
23 mi Stadium & arenaOncenter War Memorial Arena
22 mi Stadium & arenaAlliance Bank StadiumJMA Wireless Dome: Jimhoward03, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Onondaga Lake: R. A. Nonenmacher, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Fort Stanwix National Monument: NPS photo, Public domain · Green Lakes State Park: Ebedgert at English Wikipedia, Public domain · Oncenter War Memorial Arena: Crazyale, Public domain · Alliance Bank Stadium: Quintin Soloviev, CC BY 4.0
None within 15 miles of Vienna; the nearest are
About 1 of every 100 Vienna residents are enrolled in college, against 7 across New York.
Town in New York, United States
Vienna is a town in Oneida County, New York, United States. The population was 5,440 at the 2010 census. The town is named after the capital of Austria. The Town of Vienna is in the western part of the county.
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7 towns share a border with Vienna.
| Town | NY rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vienna | #371 | B− | A− | — | B− | B− |
| Verona | #281 | B | B+ | — | B | B+ |
| Annsville | #620 | C− | A− | — | B− | C+ |
| Lenox | #462 | C+ | B | — | C | B |
| Camden | #413 | B− | B+ | — | B− | B− |
| Sullivan | #219 | B+ | B | — | B+ | B+ |
| Rome | #687 | D | B− | C | D | C− |
| Constantia | #665 | D | B | — | C+ | C+ |
Vienna, Verona, Annsville, Lenox, Camden, Sullivan and Constantia report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Vienna with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Vienna grades B− overall, better than 52% of U.S. towns and #371 of 745 in New York. It grades B− for health and B− for schools. Hazard risk is its weak spot, with a D.
Not for the area. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades A−.
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