Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Yorktown is one of the best-graded places in America: an A+, 46th among New York's 745 graded towns. Residents are healthier than 96% of U.S. towns on CDC estimates, the median household earns $167K, and crime is low: it reports less per resident than 83% of U.S. towns. The exception is cost of living: the typical home is worth about $607K, 6.1 years of the New York metro’s $99K median household income. Yorktown’s average trip to work is 38 minutes, against 25 minutes in New York’s towns and 25 minutes across U.S. towns. Yorktown is easier to get around on foot or by transit than 92% of U.S. towns. On the outdoors, just 3 of New York’s 1,216 towns do better.
Where Yorktown beats most towns.
30.3% of the town is conserved land, across 35 parks and preserves.
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within New York), ordered by how far Yorktown is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Census counts: 1,609 in 1790, a low of 1,441 in 1920, 36,569 in 2020. The archive holds 12 old photos and papers going back to 1831 and 6 maps from 1892 on.
2 places on the National Register of Historic Places.
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Yorktown. Close and well known come first.
Big draw11 mi MuseumUnited States Military Academy
Big draw35 mi GardenCentral Park40.0M visitors a year
Big draw37 mi Stadium & arenaMadison Square Garden
Big draw34 mi Stadium & arenaMetLife Stadium
Big draw36 mi TheatreStudio 54
Big draw35 mi MuseumMetropolitan Museum of Art2.0M visitors a yearUnited States Military Academy: USMA Public Affairs Office, Public domain · Central Park: Ed Yourdon from New York City, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Madison Square Garden: Ajay Suresh from New York, NY, USA, CC BY 2.0 · MetLife Stadium: babyknight, CC BY 2.0 · Studio 54: Americasroof (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0 · Metropolitan Museum of Art: Hugo Schneider, CC BY-SA 2.0
Who provides power, water and the rest in Yorktown, 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 Yorktown.
Yorktown keeps more of its land conserved than most of New York and is safe by national standards but not by New York’s; it also has homes that cost more against local pay than most of New York.
Its 7,593 conserved acres are a larger share of the town than in 96% of New York towns. Its A+ for the outdoors ranks #3 of 758 in New York.
72 miles of trail in 35 parks and preserves. The trail density in Yorktown is 1.8 miles per square mile. The biggest place to walk is Franklin D. Roosevelt State Park, 833 acres with 6.2 miles of trail.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Teatown Lake Reservation | 10.2 mi | 566 |
| 2. Sylvan Glen Park Preserve | 6.7 mi | 345 |
| 3. Franklin D. Roosevelt State Park | 6.2 mi | 833 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Its A− for schools comes with a D for cost of living: the typical home is worth about $607K.
Its public schools are run by the Yorktown Central School District. Three of its 12 schools are below, each with why it’s listed.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lakeland-Copper Beech Middle SchoolLargest public middle schoolGrades 6–8 | Grades 6–8 | 1,219 | C+ |
| Yorktown High SchoolLargest public high schoolGrades 9–12 | Grades 9–12 | 1,105 | A |
| Lakeland High SchoolTop results in townGrades 9–12 | Grades 9–12 | 966 | A |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within NY on state tests and graduation
Its widest gap with New York is food insecurity: 9% of its 18,779 adults worry about having enough food, against 17.2% statewide. Against the 1,798 U.S. towns with household incomes like Yorktown’s, it is healthier than 70%, a smaller edge than it has nationally: part of it comes with its incomes.
24% of adults have obesity in Yorktown. Yorktown beats the New York average on 23 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 1. 16% of adults have been diagnosed with depression in Yorktown.
| Yorktown | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 24% | 33% | 35% |
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 16% | 21% | 23% |
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 13% | 16% | 17% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 8.5% | 13% | 14% |
| What stands out | Yorktown | NY |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 9% | 17.2% |
| Fewer adults facing housing insecurity | 8.7% | 14.5% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 9.5% | 7.7% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
At 7.5 crimes per 1,000 residents a year, it reports less crime than 69% of New York’s graded towns. Violent crime is rare: 18 reported in 2025, 0.5 per 1,000 residents.
Yorktown’s property crime rate is 5.4 per 1,000 residents.
| Yorktown | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Property crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 5.4 per 1,000 residents | 7.6 | 9.9 |
| Violent crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 0.5 per 1,000 residents | 0.8 | 1.6 |
FBI crime data, 2025 · crimes reported to police
144 flood insurance claims have been filed here, and 11 properties have flooded more than once.
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 86% of U.S. communities. Since 1978, 144 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Yorktown.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
The Yorktown Hts 1w weather station records that 40 inches of snow fall in a normal winter: more than most of the country, but less than 75% of New York places with climate records. The Yorktown Hts 1w weather station records that about 10 days a year reach 90°: fewer than most of the country, but more than 76% of New York places with climate records.
Yorktown has chilly, snowy winters and pleasant summers, with plenty of rain. July afternoons reach 84° and January nights drop to 20°.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Most working residents leave Yorktown for work: only 11% work in town. 4% of Yorktown residents live below the poverty line. The top destinations are New York (30%), Mount Pleasant (5%) and Greenburgh (4%).
| Yorktown | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $167,000 | $82,000 | $80,000 |
| Work from home | 19% | 12% | 11% |
| Below the poverty line | 4% | 9.5% | 9.6% |
| Working residents who work in town | 11% | 10% | 8% |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
At 6.1 years of the New York metro’s $99K median household income, the typical home costs more against local pay than in 82% of New York towns; that ratio is one input to its D for cost of living.
The median sale price was $740,000 in May 2026.
Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
6 within 15 miles of the center of Yorktown
About 7 of every 100 Yorktown residents are enrolled in college, about the same as New York.
2 places in Yorktown on the National Register of Historic Places.
6 notable people were born in Yorktown.
Town in New York, United States
Yorktown is a town on the northern border of Westchester County, New York, United States. A suburb of the New York City metropolitan area, it is approximately 38 miles (61 km) north of midtown Manhattan. The population was 36,569 at the 2020 U.S. Census.
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6 towns share a border with Yorktown.
| Town | NY rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yorktown | #46 | A+ | D | A− | A− | A+ |
| Somers | #83 | A | D | — | A | A+ |
| Cortlandt | #155 | A− | D | — | A− | A |
| Lake Mohegan | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| New Castle | #42 | A+ | D− | — | A+ | A+ |
| Jefferson Valley-Yorktown | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Yorktown Heights | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Somers, Cortlandt and New Castle report no FBI crime data of their own. Lake Mohegan, Jefferson Valley-Yorktown and Yorktown Heights aren’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Yorktown with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Yes, by almost any measure. Yorktown grades A+ overall, better than 96% of U.S. towns and #46 of 745 in New York. It grades A+ for health, A− for safety and A− for schools. Cost of living is its weak spot, with a D.
Yes. The typical home is worth about $607,000, 16% above 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 D.
6 notable people were born here, including Élise L'Esperance and Dave Karger.
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