City safety & data profile
PoughkeepsieNY
Poughkeepsie, NY is a 30K-resident city in Dutchess County with a median household income of $60,741.
Dutchess County, New York. Federal health, economic, and safety indicators for Poughkeepsie, drawn from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey, CDC PLACES, and CMS Hospital Compare. Poughkeepsie has a population larger than 63% of the 4,640 U.S. cities Areazine tracks, a median home value of $283,700, and 1 hospital serving the surrounding area.
- 30K
- Population (place)
- Top 37%
- By size
- $60,741
- Median income (place)
- $283,700
- Median home (place)
- 17.6%
- Poverty rate (place)
The read on Poughkeepsie
Poughkeepsie posts a median household income higher than 23% of U.S. cities Areazine tracks, where 1 hospital serves the Poughkeepsie area.
- Bottom 24%
- by median income, US cities
- 1
- hospital in & near Poughkeepsie
Composite score · Poughkeepsie, NY
31/100
4 published dimensions · ACS/FBI 2024
A transparent index Areazine derives from Census ACS medians (income, poverty, bachelor's share) and FBI UCR violent-crime rates when published, not an official Census Bureau or FBI rating. Higher means a stronger standing on those published figures, not a livability rating, not a recommendation to move to or avoid any place. Missing inputs drop out and redistribute weight. How it is calculated.
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS 5-Year Estimates.
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents. State-level rate (per-city UCR reporting is incomplete/voluntary): every city in the state shares this value; lower is stronger on this axis.
Median household income vs cities tracked on Areazine; ACS 5-Year Estimates.
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis. ACS 5-Year Estimates.
See the full national tables: Healthiest Cities in America (health outcomes only) · Community Wellbeing Cities (this page's blended composite).
Where Poughkeepsie income ranks nationally
Median household income vs. every place Areazine profiles (place-level ACS)
$60,741 Bottom 23% higher than 23% of 3,889 places Areazine profiles
Each bar is a $20,000-wide band; taller bars hold more places Areazine profiles. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (place-level) · 2024 ACS 5-year
Largest cities in NY
Population among 197 NY places with 10,000+ residents and ACS income on Areazine. Tooltip shows the income rank in the same pool.
- New York City
New York City, NY
8,622,467 residents
- Buffalo 258,071
Buffalo, NY
258,071 residents
- Rochester 209,802
Rochester, NY
209,802 residents
- Yonkers 201,116
Yonkers, NY
201,116 residents
- Washington Heights 152,613
Washington Heights, NY
152,613 residents
- Syracuse 144,142
Syracuse, NY
144,142 residents
- Albany 101,228
Albany, NY
101,228 residents
- New Rochelle 79,846
New Rochelle, NY
79,846 residents
- Cheektowaga 75,178
Cheektowaga, NY
75,178 residents
- Mount Vernon 68,628
Mount Vernon, NY
68,628 residents
What this shows New York City is the largest NY city on this list; Scarsdale leads median income.
Top earners by city in NY
Median household income across 197 tracked NY places. Hover a bar for its population rank.
- Scarsdale
Scarsdale, NY
$250,001 median
- Garden City
Garden City, NY
$244,152 median
- Rye
Rye, NY
$239,815 median
- Dix Hills
Dix Hills, NY
$227,944 median
- Kensington
Kensington, NY
$220,625 median
- Woodbury
Woodbury, NY
$191,321 median
- Plainview
Plainview, NY
$189,906 median
- Fort Salonga
Fort Salonga, NY
$189,856 median
- Syosset
Syosset, NY
$187,273 median
- Merrick
Merrick, NY
$185,740 median
What this shows Scarsdale leads this pool on median income; New York City is the population leader instead.
The quick read
Reading Poughkeepsie, NY beyond the headline numbers
Poughkeepsie sits inside Dutchess County, New York, at roughly 41.70°N, -73.92°W. Population 30,371, $60,741 median household income. Median home value $283,700, median rent $1,400. Poverty rate 17.6%, read against that income figure since two cities on the same median can differ underneath it.
1 hospital in/around Poughkeepsie, 3/5 avg rating, 1 with an ER. Climate: 50.5°F annual average, 47.1" precipitation.
6% of Poughkeepsie workers commute by public transit, a larger share than at least three quarters of reporting cities.
8.8% unemployment puts Poughkeepsie in the toughest quarter of reporting cities for job availability.
Among the CDC measures on this page, binge drinking departs furthest from its peer median: 13.2% in Poughkeepsie, the lowest-prevalence quarter of the 3,759 cities reporting that measure.
17.6% of Poughkeepsie, NY residents live below the poverty line, placing it in the hardest-hit quarter of reporting cities. Read every median on this page against that: half the households are above it, and a large minority are far below.
A median home in Poughkeepsie runs about 4.7 times median household income, above the midpoint. Multiples in this range usually mean buyers are arriving from outside the local wage base.
Remote work covers 9% of Poughkeepsie workers, under the midpoint for reporting cities.
31.9% of Poughkeepsie adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, below the midpoint of reporting cities.
Median rent in Poughkeepsie, NY runs $1,400/month, below the midpoint for reporting cities.
Sources: U.S. Census ACS, CDC PLACES, CMS Hospital Compare, plus live alerts for Poughkeepsie from FEMA, NOAA, FDA, and CPSC. Economic comparison bars use the unweighted average across tracked Census places with a reported value, not a household-weighted national median.
10-Year Trends 2013–2024
County-level trend (Dutchess County): Poughkeepsie's own historical series isn't separately published by the Census Bureau, so these year-over-year figures track the surrounding county, not the city alone.
Money & Work
The clearest outlier in Poughkeepsie's numbers is poverty rate: 17.6%, which is 42% above what's typical across the tracked-city set. Median household income runs 32% below average too, at $60,741.
| Indicator | Value |
|---|---|
| Median Rent | |
| Poverty Rate | 17.6% +42% vs avg |
| Unemployment | 8.8% |
| Bachelor's Degree+ | 31.9% |
| Work From Home | 9% |
| Public Transit | 6% |
Population Snapshot
Community Health 15 measures
Health Indicators
Preventive Care
Other Measures
Local Hospitals 1 total
CMS Overall Hospital Quality Star Rating (1-5): a composite score across dozens of reported measures, not a single outcome guarantee for any patient. It isn't adjusted for patient case mix and isn't directly comparable across hospital types, a critical-access facility and a large teaching hospital aren't rated on the same measure set.
Climate
NOAA 1991-2020 NormalsNFIP Flood Claim History
FEMA NFIP, county-levelSince 2016, NFIP has paid out $3.0M across 141 flood insurance claims filed in Dutchess County.
Hurricane Ida alone generated 73 of those claims, the county's largest named flood event in this record.
Source: FEMA National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) claims, via OpenFEMA. County-level data: individual claims are not attributed to a specific city or address by FEMA.
What alerts and safety updates affect Poughkeepsie?
No area-tagged alerts are on record for Poughkeepsie right now. New federal and counterpart-agency notices still land in the site feed as agencies publish them.
City alert dispatch desk
Sheet NY-POUGHKEEPSIE · Poughkeepsie
Poughkeepsie: no area-tagged alerts on record. State hubs carry the live CAP stream.
- FEED-QUIET No tagged alerts
- LEAD-NONE Feed idle
- DESK-IDLE Awaiting feed
Counts reflect published articles tagged to Poughkeepsie; untagged NOAA county warnings may still appear in the site feed. Browse New York state hubs · Methodology
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Similar poverty or income, nationwide 8
Two ACS-derived peer sets for Poughkeepsie, both outside New York so the neighborhoods are not the geographic nearby list below.
Similar poverty rate
Nearest place-level ACS poverty rates outside NY (17.6% here).
Similar median income
Nearest place-level ACS median household incomes outside NY ($60,741 here).
Compare Poughkeepsie with another city
Pick a second U.S. city to open a side-by-side profile on population, income, health, and hospitals, the same federal datasets as this page.
In the Area 8
Turning this into a research checklist
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Place-level figures for population and economics (income, home value, poverty, education) come from U.S. Census ACS; health data is CDC PLACES; hospital counts cover facilities in and around the city. Any county-level trend is labeled as such.
Data Sources
All data on this page comes from official U.S. government sources. Population and economic data from the Census Bureau American Community Survey (2024 5-year estimates, place geography). Health data from the CDC PLACES program (2023). Hospital ratings from CMS Hospital Compare (2024). Climate data from NOAA. Education data from NCES. Cost of living from Bureau of Economic Analysis. Crime statistics, where referenced on Areazine, originate from the FBI Crime Data Explorer. Housing market figures referenced on Areazine come from HUD Fair Market Rents. Census economics and population are at place geography; some health and hospital indicators are reported at the county level (Dutchess County) where that is the smallest published unit.
Every figure on Areazine is published directly from official U.S. government sources, no number is typed in by an editor. City demographic and health figures are compiled directly from U.S. Census (place-level ACS), CDC, and CMS releases, updated quarterly within 30 days of upstream release. County-level trends are labeled when shown. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 2026-09-16.