Airmont, New York

Area Profile

10,205 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for Airmont, in Rockland County.

61out of 100
Area Score
Top 48% of 2,944 profiles measured

How we calculate this

How this area ranks
OpportunityTop 17% of 3,904 cities measured73
Schools2437th of 2,668 cities measured18
Growth2124th of 2,973 cities measured38
Housing affordability3164th of 4,223 cities measured64
ClimateTop 47% of 4,223 cities measured71
Physical resilienceTop 19% of 4,182 cities measured84
Access2821st of 4,226 cities measured87
Economic stability3087th of 4,226 cities measured47
The quick read

Airmont ranks in the top 17% of published city profiles for employment opportunity, with unemployment at 3.5% and median household income of $94,972.

Residential permitting has slowed: 8 units authorized over the past twelve months, 43% below the prior year.

Natural-hazard exposure is lower than in most comparable published city profiles, placing Airmont in the top 19% for physical resilience.

At a glance

Population
10,205
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$94,972
Top 22% nationally
Density
2,235/sq mi
4.6 sq mi of land
Median age
24.3
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
Rockland County
New York
Metro area
New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ
Nearest major airport
SWF
28 mi · New York Stewart Intl
Median home value
$710,700
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 3.5% is lower than 84% of the 3,904 measured US cities.

Employment grew 0.1% over the past year, to 159,003 employed residents.

32% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 72% of measured US cities.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Median household income ±$18,499$94,972Top 22%of 29,5732024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$5,406$32,666Bottom 46%of 31,4202024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate12.5%Top 44%of 31,9002024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute28.2 minTop 42%of 31,5432024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher32.1%Top 28%of 31,9192024 ACS 5-Year
Employment159,003Top 33%of 3,904June 2026
Employment change (3 years)-0.2%Bottom 48%of 3,903June 2026
Employment change (year over year)0.1%Top 29%of 3,904June 2026
Labor force164,720Top 33%of 3,904June 2026
Labor force participation55.0%Bottom 33%of 31,9332024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$86,310Top 17%of 3,6582025 OEWS
Median annual wage$61,430Top 19%of 3,6582025 OEWS
Unemployment change (year over year)0.4%Top 36%of 3,904June 2026
Unemployment rate3.5%Bottom 16%of 3,904June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
2021202220232024102k95k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $94,972 in the 2024 ACS 5-Year. Consecutive releases share four years of sample, so AreaProfile shows them as a record of successive estimates and does not compute a year-over-year change from them.
Largest occupations — New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ
OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
Home Health and Personal Care Aides644,700$39,680
Retail Salespersons202,080$38,280
Registered Nurses197,740$119,720
Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners183,030$42,840
General and Operations Managers177,850$157,000
Cashiers173,830$35,950

Occupational employment and wages are published for metropolitan areas rather than for individual cities or ZIP areas, so these describe the wider labor market this location sits in. 2025 OEWS, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes city-level labor data only for places of 25,000 or more. This is the figure for Rockland County, NY, which contains this city.

25% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 24% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 15.4 students for every full-time teacher, fewer than in most measured places.

Public schools
3
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
15.4
across all schools here
Math proficiency
24.6%
Bottom 16% in New York
Reading proficiency
24.3%
Bottom 1% in New York
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
GRANDVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOLEAST RAMAPO CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (SPRING VALLEY)60916.032%17%
ELMWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLEAST RAMAPO CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (SPRING VALLEY)59815.320%24%
MARGETTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLEAST RAMAPO CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (SPRING VALLEY)57914.822%32%

87.7% of students here are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That describes the circumstances families arrive with rather than how the schools perform, which is why AreaProfile shows it and does not score it.

Public schools only, from the NCES Common Core of Data. Schools are placed by ZIP code, so this is which schools are in this place rather than which one a particular address is zoned for — district boundaries do not follow municipal ones, and enrollment zones change. Fully virtual schools are excluded: they enroll students from across the state while reporting one administrative address, and counting them here would describe a school population this place does not have. The assessment covers grades 3 through 8, so a high school shows no proficiency figure — a dash in those columns means the test was not given at that school, not that it performed badly. Proficiency is measured against New York’s own standard, so it compares cleanly within the state and only broadly against other states; AreaProfile therefore ranks it within state. The directory is current, while the proficiency figures are from the last school year with national coverage before the pandemic interrupted testing.

Housing & affordability

How it’s calculated →

Prices for everything a household buys run about 13% above the national average, on the Bureau of Economic Analysis index. Housing drives most of that difference.

Median rent of $1,181 takes 15% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 7.5 times median household income here, well above the historic benchmark, at a level conventionally described as seriously unaffordable.

Rent as a share of income
14.9%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
7.5×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$1,181
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$710,700
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Cost of living index112.6Top 16%of 3,6582023
Home price to income7.48Top 4%of 28,4732024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate79.2%Top 43%of 31,8432024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±2512,588Top 19%of 32,3302024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$738$1,181Top 34%of 23,4322024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$46,148$710,700Top 6%of 29,3422024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income14.9%Bottom 24%of 23,2012024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate5.1%Bottom 29%of 32,0012024 ACS 5-Year

Both affordability measures come from the same ACS release as the income they are compared with, so the comparison is like for like. They describe housing cost against local earnings and are not a cost-of-living index — transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes are not included, and a place can look affordable here and still be expensive to live in for reasons this does not capture.

Growth & development

How it’s calculated →
Development Momentum
38/ 100
Ranks 2124 of 2,973 published city profiles
Permitting is decreasing, measured from 2020 to 2025.

An AreaProfile calculation combining permit volume per resident, its direction over one and three years, population change and employment growth. Permit volume alone is not the measure.

Population has grown 3% since 2020, reaching 10,380 in 2024.

Permitting has turned downward after moving the other way the year before.

New construction is predominantly single-family: only 0% of permitted units are in buildings of five or more homes.

At 0.8 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is below the median for measured US cities.

Units permitted
8
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
0.8
Bottom 26% nationally
Year over year
−43%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
0.0%
units in 5+ unit buildings
Population, annual estimates
2020202120222023202410k10k
Census Population Estimates Program, July 1 of each year. These annual estimates are designed for year-over-year comparison, unlike the ACS five-year figure shown as this profile's population.
Housing units permitted per year
202020212022202320242025153.0
Annual totals from the Census Building Permits Survey. Permitting in 2025 was higher than 2020 (+233%).

Weather & climate

6 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 87°F and January a low of 26°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 46.3 inches.

Air quality measures a median index of 37, in the Good band, and about 5 days a year pass 100, the threshold at which the air is unhealthy for sensitive groups.

10°30°50°70°90°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station TETERBORO AP, 17.3 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND4.5"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index54.02024 calendar year
Annual precipitation46.3"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low26°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high87°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months61991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 10052024 calendar year
Median air quality index37.02024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing45°F1991-2020 Normals
Air quality
Median air quality index
37
Good on a typical day
Worst tenth of days
54
90th percentile index
Days above 100
5
unhealthy for sensitive groups

A comfortable median and a bad tail are different problems. Wildfire smoke and summer ozone show up in the worst tenth of days, not in the middle of the year.

Climate figures are thirty-year normals, not current conditions. They describe what a typical year looks like rather than what the weather is doing today. Air quality is measured rather than modelled, by EPA monitors, and published by county only where a monitor sits — roughly half the counties AreaProfile publishes have one, and the rest show nothing rather than an estimate. Air masses are regional, so a county reading describes the air over a place reasonably well, but it is still the county reading.

Physical risk

84 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are earthquake, hurricane and landslide.

EarthquakeElevated
HurricaneModerate
LandslideModerate

Low or minimal exposure: strong wind, winter weather, inland flooding, lightning, heat wave, cold wave, ice storm, tornado, coastal flooding, avalanche, drought, hail, wildfire.

Hazard ratings are AreaProfile calculations derived from the FEMA National Risk Index v1.20.0 (December 2025). FEMA publishes at county level. City values are the population-weighted mean of the counties the city overlaps, using AreaProfile place-to-county land-area weights. FEMA does not endorse this presentation. Higher physical resilience means lower exposure.

These are deaths, not offences — they say nothing about burglary, theft or assault.

Rockland County records 2.2 homicide deaths per 100,000 residents a year, near the middle of counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Firearm deaths of all intents run at 4.1 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 9.4 per 100,000 residents in Rockland County.

Homicide
2.2
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
4.1
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
9.4
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
6.2
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths

Firearm deaths count every intent together, and nationally the majority are suicides rather than homicides. The two columns overlap and should not be added.

Age-adjusted rates from provisional death certificate records, published by the CDC for Rockland County as a whole — these rates are not published below county level. A county can hold both a dense city centre and a suburb whose experience of it is nothing alike, so this describes the county around Airmont rather than Airmont itself. That is why AreaProfile shows these figures and does not put them in the Area Score. Where fewer than ten deaths were recorded the count is suppressed at source, and a rate built on single figures moves sharply between releases. What this measure has that reported crime does not: a death certificate is filed whether or not the local police agency submitted a return that year, so the figures stay comparable between places and over time.

What this profile does not cover

Three things people look for are missing from every AreaProfile page, and each is missing for a reason rather than by oversight. The Area Score is calculated without them and the weighting is documented on the methodology page.

Reported crime
Offences reported to police are published by department rather than by town, and only where a department reported every month of the year. No municipal department reports for this place — many smaller communities are policed by the county — so there is no figure to show. A partial year is never scaled up to look complete, and arrest counts or news volume are never substituted for it.
Taxes and full cost of living
No public source publishes either with national coverage and a method open enough to check. Housing affordability above is computed from published rent, price and income, and excludes transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes — commuting cost in particular tends to offset suburban housing savings. Nothing here is individualised tax advice.
Anything about a specific address
Every figure describes an area, not a street or a house. School attendance zones, insurance pricing and the character of a neighbourhood all vary within the places measured here.

Access

4 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 28 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
New York Stewart IntlSWF28 mi11,817 ft
Newark Liberty IntlEWR28 mi9,999 ft
John F Kennedy IntlJFK36 mi14,511 ft

Airport identity, position and runway data come from the FAA. “Major airport” is an AreaProfile classification — a public-use civil airport with a paved runway of at least 8,000 feet — not an FAA hub designation. Distances are straight-line, not driving distance.

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Other cities in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ

Same metropolitan area, measured the same way
CityCountyPopulationArea ScoreCompare
New YorkNew York County8,483,84464vs Airmont
NewarkEssex County310,17849vs Airmont
Jersey CityHudson County294,07861vs Airmont
YonkersWestchester County209,97862vs Airmont
PatersonPassaic County158,73543vs Airmont
ElizabethUnion County137,30253vs Airmont
Toms RiverOcean County94,956vs Airmont
CliftonPassaic County89,37961vs Airmont
New RochelleWestchester County82,76966vs Airmont
Mount VernonWestchester County72,42756vs Airmont
BayonneHudson County71,55354vs Airmont
East OrangeEssex County70,09050vs Airmont

Every city here is measured on the same scale from the same source releases, so the comparison is like for like. A higher Area Score reflects AreaProfile’s standardized weighting rather than a judgment about which is the better place to live.

Data & methodology

Used forSourceSource periodUpdated
AccessFederal Aviation Administration
Airports (NASR) — Aeronautical Data Delivery Service
NASR current cycle28-day NASR cycle
Physical riskFederal Emergency Management Agency
National Risk Index
National Risk Index December 2025 (v1.20.0)Periodic dataset versions (v1.20.0 current)
ClimateNOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020 (Monthly)
1991-2020 NormalsEvery ten years (next release follows the 2001–2030 period)
HousingU.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
Regional price parities and county personal income
2023Annually, each December
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
June 2026Monthly
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
2025 OEWSAnnual (spring release)
DemographicsU.S. Census Bureau
Population Estimates Program
July 1, 2024 estimateAnnual (vintage released each spring)
Demographics, Housing, Income, JobsU.S. Census Bureau
American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (Table-Based Summary File)
2024 ACS 5-YearAnnual (5-year estimates released each December)
DevelopmentU.S. Census Bureau
Building Permits Survey
12 months ending July 2026Monthly, roughly three weeks after the reference month
safetyU.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics
Provisional county-level mortality by intent
April, 2025 to March, 2026Quarterly, with a rolling twelve-month window alongside complete calendar years
schoolsU.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessments
2019-20 school year; 2024-25 school yearDirectory annually; assessment results as EDFacts releases them
ClimateU.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Air Quality System
Daily Air Quality Index by county
2024 calendar yearAnnually, once a calendar year is complete

Profile recalculated August 30, 2026. Recalculation is not the same as new source data — each figure above shows the period its source actually covers. Read the full methodology or browse every source.

ZIP codes in Airmont

1 published ZIP profiles
ZIPPopulationMedian household incomeArea Score
1095248,019$64,33253