Northeast · New York · pop 210K
Rochester, NY
Fair match
at the reference profile: one person earning $6,700/mo gross, default weights.
Personalize this score →After estimated taxes in NY, your $6,700/mo income nets about $5,077 — covering estimated essentials here (about $961 rent plus everyday costs incl. local sales tax) with roughly $1,391 left over.
Home prices are within reach relative to local pay — the median home ($145,000) is about 3.3× the median household income.
Tradeoff: the local job market is softer than most on this list (4.0% unemployment).
The Rochester fit print
Est. monthly cost
$3,686/mo
Typical rent
$1,130/mo
Home value ÷ income
3.3×
Score breakdown
The data behind the score
Money (Census ACS · HUD)
- Median gross rent
- $970/mo
- HUD fair market rent (2BR)
- $1,130/mo
- Median home value
- $145,000
- Median household income
- $44,000
- Population
- 210,000
Work (BLS)
- Unemployment rate
- 4.0%
- Job growth (1yr)
- 0.5%
Safety (FBI CDE, per 100k)
- Violent crime rate
- 890
- Property crime rate
- 3,500
Climate (NOAA normals)
- Avg. summer high
- 81°F
- Avg. winter low
- 18°F
- Sunny days / year
- 159
- Days ≥100°F by 2050 (air temp)
- ≈3/yr
- Dangerous humid days by 2050 (feels-like)
- ≈32/yr
- Unhealthy air days
- ≈4/yr
- Annual rain
- 34"
- Annual snow
- 90"
Community & access (approx.)
- 2024 county margin
- D+15
- Int'l airport
- ≈5 mi
- Walkability
- 64/100
- Disaster risk
- 22/100
Data vintage: sample-approx-2024. Sources & methodology — this deployment is running the bundled sample dataset; figures are approximate.
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