14830Corning, New York

Area Profile

Income, jobs, climate, physical risk and development data for ZIP code 14830.

56out of 100
Area Score
Bottom 36% of 5,298 profiles measured

How we calculate this

How this area ranks
Opportunity3364th of 6,210 ZIP areas measured53
Schools2353rd of 4,422 ZIP areas measured50
Growth5350th of 5,428 ZIP areas measured9
Housing affordabilityTop 9% of 6,685 ZIP areas measured100
Climate5663rd of 6,789 ZIP areas measured60
Physical resilience3701st of 6,709 ZIP areas measured52
AccessTop 32% of 6,791 ZIP areas measured97
Economic stability3706th of 6,742 ZIP areas measured57
The quick read

Residential permitting has slowed: 0 units authorized over the past twelve months, 100% below the prior year.

Housing is more affordable relative to local incomes than in most published city profiles: rent takes 17% of median household income and the median home is 2.3 times it.

A major airport is 7 miles away, giving the area unusually direct access to the national air network.

At a glance

Population
19,015
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$73,263
Top 48% nationally
Density
210/sq mi
90.6 sq mi of land
Median age
39.4
2024 ACS 5-Year
City
Corning
New York
Metro area
Corning, NY
Nearest major airport
ELM
7 mi · Elmira/Corning Rgnl
Median home value
$169,800
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 3.9% is lower than 71% of the 6,544 measured US ZIP areas.

Employment fell 1.1% over the past year, to 38,212 employed residents.

40% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 79% of measured US ZIP areas.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Median household income ±$6,710$73,263Top 48%of 31,2952024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$2,611$46,072Top 25%of 32,8222024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate9.5%Bottom 44%of 32,9702024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute20.6 minBottom 15%of 32,8872024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher40.2%Top 21%of 33,1932024 ACS 5-Year
Employment38,212Bottom 38%of 6,544June 2026
Employment change (3 years)-5.2%Bottom 3%of 6,542June 2026
Employment change (year over year)-1.1%Bottom 44%of 6,544June 2026
Labor force39,745Bottom 38%of 6,544June 2026
Labor force participation62.6%Top 42%of 33,2522024 ACS 5-Year
Unemployment change (year over year)0.5%Top 31%of 6,544June 2026
Unemployment rate3.9%Bottom 29%of 6,544June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202474k66k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $73,263 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.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics does not publish labor-force data for ZIP areas. This is the figure for Corning, NY, the city containing this ZIP code.

38% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 44% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 12.4 students for every full-time teacher, fewer than in most measured places.

Public schools
6
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
12.4
across all schools here
Math proficiency
38.5%
Top 50% in New York
Reading proficiency
44.3%
Bottom 28% in New York
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
CORNING-PAINTED POST HIGH SCHOOLCORNING CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT1,52412.7
WILLIAM E SEVERN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLCORNING CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT40411.238%41%
FREDERICK CARDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOLCORNING CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT39912.545%50%
WINFIELD STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOLCORNING CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT22414.024%32%
HUGH W GREGG ELEMENTARY SCHOOLCORNING CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT21414.343%53%
CORNING PAINTED POST HIGH SCHOOL LEARNING CENTERCORNING CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT244.0

43.6% 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 →

Median rent of $1,043 takes 17% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 2.3 times median household income here, close to the historic benchmark for an affordable market.

Rent as a share of income
17.1%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
2.3×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$1,043
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$169,800
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Home price to income2.32Bottom 24%of 30,4042024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate66.0%Bottom 23%of 32,9102024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±2859,484Top 17%of 33,7722024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$67$1,043Top 48%of 26,6182024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$6,227$169,800Bottom 35%of 30,9412024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income17.1%Bottom 46%of 26,4702024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate9.0%Bottom 42%of 33,0282024 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
9/ 100
Ranks 5350 of 5,428 published city profiles

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.

At 0.0 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is below the median for measured US ZIP areas.

Units permitted
0
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
0.0
Bottom 1% nationally
Year over year
−100%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
units in 5+ unit buildings

The Building Permits Survey is not published for ZIP areas. This is the figure for Corning, NY, the city containing this ZIP code.

Weather & climate

5 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 82°F and January a low of 16°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 32.4 inches.

Air quality measures a median index of 37, in the Good band, and no day in the year passed 100.

10°30°50°70°90°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station ELMIRA CORNING RGNL AP, 7.2 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND3.6"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index52.02024 calendar year
Annual precipitation32.4"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low16°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high82°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months51991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 10002024 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
52
90th percentile index
Days above 100
0
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

52 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are inland flooding, hurricane and heat wave.

Inland floodingElevated
HurricaneModerate
Heat waveModerate

Low or minimal exposure: landslide, lightning, tornado, strong wind, avalanche, cold wave, drought, hail, ice storm, earthquake, winter weather, wildfire.

Hazard ratings are AreaProfile calculations derived from the FEMA National Risk Index v1.20.0 (December 2025). FEMA publishes at county level. ZIP values are the land-area-weighted mean of the counties the ZIP Code Tabulation Area intersects. Expected annual loss is not allocated below county level. 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.

Steuben County records 2.4 homicide deaths per 100,000 residents a year, lower than most counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Firearm deaths of all intents run at 13.0 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 20.6 per 100,000 residents in Steuben County.

Homicide
2.4
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
13.0
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
20.6
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
22.8
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 Steuben 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 14830 rather than 14830 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
Taxes are not published: no source covers them nationally with a method open enough to check. Cost of living now is — the index above is the Bureau of Economic Analysis price parity for this area — but it is a price level for all consumption rather than a budget for a household, its spread is driven mostly by housing, and it excludes taxes. Housing affordability is computed separately from rent, price and income, because that answers a narrower and more actionable question. 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

3 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 7 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Elmira/Corning RgnlELM7 mi8,001 ft
Frederick Douglass/Greater Rochester IntlROC76 mi8,001 ft
Syracuse Hancock IntlSYR82 mi9,013 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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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)
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
June 2026Monthly
DemographicsU.S. Census Bureau
Population Estimates Program
July 1, 2024 estimateAnnual (vintage released each spring)
DevelopmentU.S. Census Bureau
Building Permits Survey
12 months ending July 2026Monthly, roughly three weeks after the reference month
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)
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.

14830 vs Corning

How this ZIP area compares with Corning as a whole. Both figures come from the same ACS release, so the comparison is like for like.

14830
Corning
Median household income
$73,263
vs
$61,760
Per capita income
$46,072
vs
$43,457
Population density
210/sq mi
vs
3,451/sq mi
Median home value
$169,800
vs
$158,400
Median gross rent
$1,043
vs
$1,014
Homeownership rate
66.0%
vs
51.3%
Bachelor's degree or higher
40.2%
vs
40.5%
Poverty rate
9.5%
vs
11.7%
Median age
39.4
vs
37.8

Some demographic statistics use Census ZIP Code Tabulation Areas, which approximate but do not exactly match USPS ZIP delivery geography. See the methodology for how AreaProfile maps between them.