Greene County has a predicted average indoor radon screening level greater than 4 pCi/L (pico curies per liter) - Highest Potential
Air Quality Index (AQI) level in 2010 was 34.8. This is about average.
Carbon Monoxide (CO) [ppm] level in 2009 was 0.439. This is worse than average. There were 1 monitors within city limits.
Sulfur Dioxide (SO2) [ppb] level in 2010 was 3.88. This is significantly worse than average. There were 7 monitors within city limits.
Particulate Matter (PM2.5) [µ/m3] level in 2010 was 10.2. This is about average. There were 11 monitors within city limits.
Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2) [ppb] level in 2010 was 4.26. This is significantly better than average. There were 4 monitors within city limits.
Drinking water stations with addresses in Athens and their reported violations in the past:
STEVES MEAT MARKET (Population served: 30, Groundwater):
Past monitoring violations:
- 3 routine major monitoring violations
Percentage of residents living in poverty in 2009: 9.4%
(10.0% for White Non-Hispanic residents, 17.4% for Black residents, 0.0% for Hispanic or Latino residents, 0.0% for two or more races residents)
Average household size:
| This village: | 2.3 people | | New York: | 2.4 people |
Percentage of family households:
| This village: | 59.4% | | Whole state: | 64.6% |
Percentage of households with unmarried partners:
| This village: | 6.7% | | Whole state: | 5.4% |
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.4% of all households
Detailed information about poverty and poor residents in Athens, NY
22 people in nursing homes
Athens compared to New York state average:
- Black race population percentage significantly below state average.
- Median age above state average.
- Foreign-born population percentage below state average.
- Percentage of population with a bachelor's degree or higher below state average.
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Banks with branches in Athens (2011 data):
- The National Bank of Coxsackie: Athens Branch at 1 North Washington Street, branch established on 1955/05/09. Info updated 2006/11/03: Bank assets: $206.4 mil, Deposits: $182.4 mil, headquarters in Coxsackie, NY, positive income, 6 total offices
Educational Attainment (%)
School Enrollment by Level of School (%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (78%)
- Electricity (15%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (4%)
- Wood (2%)
- Other fuel (1%)
2004 Presidential Election results in Greene County New York:
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Religion statistics for Athens (based on Greene County data)
Percentage of population affiliated with a religious congregations: 35.42%
| Here |  | 35.4% |
| USA |  | 50.2% |
Breakdown of population affiliated with a religious congregations
| Name | Catholic Church | United Methodist Church | Reformed Church in America | Lutheran Church | Evangelical Lutheran Church in America |
| Adherents | 55.2% | 20.0% | 7.6% | 3.2% | 2.8% |
| Congregations | 11.7% | 30.0% | 13.3% | 1.7% | 3.3% |
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| Name | Episcopal Church | Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America | Jewish | The Wesleyan Church | Other |
| Adherents | 2.8% | 2.0% | 1.2% | 0.9% | 4.4% |
| Congregations | 10.0% | 1.7% | 1.7% | 1.7% | 25.0% |
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Source: Jones, Dale E., et al. 2002. Congregations and Membership in the United States 2000. Nashville, TN: Glenmary Research Center. Tables represent county-level data.
Food Environment Statistics:Number of grocery stores: 13 | Greene County: | 2.65 / 10,000 pop. | | New York: | 4.13 / 10,000 pop. |
Number of convenience stores (no gas): 5 | Greene County: | 1.02 / 10,000 pop. | | New York: | 0.92 / 10,000 pop. |
Number of convenience stores (with gas): 28 | Greene County: | 5.71 / 10,000 pop. | | State: | 1.68 / 10,000 pop. |
Number of full-service restaurants: 83 | Here: | 16.92 / 10,000 pop. | | State: | 8.82 / 10,000 pop. |
Adult diabetes rate: | This county: | 7.7% | | New York: | 8.2% |
Adult obesity rate: | Greene County: | 24.5% | | New York: | 23.8% |
Low-income preschool obesity rate: | This county: | 16.5% | | State: | 15.6% |
| Local government employment and payroll (March 2007) |
| Function |
Full-time employees |
Monthly full-time payroll |
Average yearly full-time wage |
Part-time employees |
Monthly part-time payroll |
| Financial Administration |
2 | $4,872 | $29,232 | 0 | $0 |
| Other Government Administration |
0 | $0 | | 6 | $2,375 |
| Judicial and Legal |
0 | $0 | | 2 | $699 |
| Police Protection - Officers |
0 | $0 | | 8 | $807 |
| Police - Other |
0 | $0 | | 3 | $425 |
| Streets and Highways |
5 | $15,050 | $36,120 | 0 | $0 |
| Other and Unallocable |
0 | $0 | | 2 | $153 |
| Totals for Government |
7 | $19,922 | $34,152 | 21 | $4,459 |
Athens government finances in 2002:
- Bond Fund - Cash & Deposits: $667,000 ($400.36)
- Charges - Sewerage: $132,000 ($79.23)
All Other: $17,000 ($10.20)
- Construction - Fire Protection: $103,000 ($61.82)
Sewerage: $29,000 ($17.41)
Police Protection: $3,000 ($1.80)
- Current Operations - Regular Highways: $183,000 ($109.84)
Water Utilities: $160,000 ($96.04)
Sewerage: $153,000 ($91.84)
General - Other: $139,000 ($83.43)
Police Protection: $66,000 ($39.62)
Financial Administration: $52,000 ($31.21)
General Public Buildings: $28,000 ($16.81)
Libraries: $24,000 ($14.41)
Central Staff Services: $22,000 ($13.21)
Judicial and Legal Services: $19,000 ($11.40)
Fire Protection: $18,000 ($10.80)
Parks & Recreation: $11,000 ($6.60)
Protective Inspection and Regulation, NEC: $7,000 ($4.20)
Health Services - Other: $3,000 ($1.80)
Solid Waste Management: $1,000 ($0.60)
- General - Interest on Debt: $14,000 ($8.40)
- Intergovernmental to Local NEC - Financial Administration: $27,000 ($16.21)
- Local Intergovernmental - All Other: $41,000 ($24.61)
- Long Term Debt Beginning Outstanding - Water Utilities: $830,000 ($498.20)
- Long Term Debt Beginning Outstanding, NEC: $226,000 ($135.65)
- Long Term Debt Outstanding - Full Faith & Credit - Water Utilities: $800,000 ($480.19)
Full Faith & Credit - Other, NEC: $191,000 ($114.65)
- Long Term Debt Retired Unspecified - Other, NEC: $35,000 ($21.01)
Water Utilities: $30,000 ($18.01)
- Miscellaneous - General Revenue, NEC: $42,000 ($25.21)
Interest Earnings: $26,000 ($15.61)
- Other Capital Outlay - Fire Protection: $14,000 ($8.40)
Regular Highways: $7,000 ($4.20)
Police Protection: $2,000 ($1.20)
Financial Administration: $1,000 ($0.60)
- Other Funds - Cash & Deposits: $298,000 ($178.87)
- Revenue - Water Utilities: $217,000 ($130.25)
- Short Term Debt Outstanding - Beginning: $176,000 ($105.64)
End of Fiscal Year: $168,000 ($100.84)
- Sinking Fund - Cash & Deposits: $6,000 ($3.60)
- State Intergovernmental - All Other: $13,000 ($7.80)
General Support: $9,000 ($5.40)
Highways: $5,000 ($3.00)
- Tax - Property: $490,000 ($294.12)
NEC: $14,000 ($8.40)
Public Utilities: $8,000 ($4.80)
- Total Salaries & Wages: $307,000 ($184.27)
- Water Utilities - Interest on Debt: $50,000 ($30.01)
6.60% of this county's 2006 resident taxpayers lived in other counties in 2005 ($45,023 average adjusted gross income) | Here: | 6.60% | | New York average: | 5.41% |
10 or fewer of this county's residents moved from foreign countries between 2005 and 2006.
Top counties from which taxpayers relocated into this county between 2005 and 2006:
6.07% of this county's 2005 resident taxpayers moved to other counties in 2006 ($41,760 average adjusted gross income) | Here: | 6.07% | | New York average: | 6.26% |
10 or fewer of this county's residents moved to foreign countries between 2005 and 2006.
Top counties to which taxpayers relocated from this county between 2005 and 2006:
Strongest AM radio stations in Athens:
- WHUC (1230 AM; 1 kW; HUDSON, NY; Owner: CLEAR CHANNEL BROADCASTING LICENSES, INC.)
- WGY (810 AM; 50 kW; SCHENECTADY, NY; Owner: CLEAR CHANNEL BROADCASTING LICENSES, INC.)
- WPTR (1540 AM; 50 kW; ALBANY, NY; Owner: KIMTRON, INC.)
- WNNZ (640 AM; 50 kW; WESTFIELD, MA; Owner: CLEAR CHANNEL BROADCASTING LICENSES, INC.)
- WROW (590 AM; 5 kW; ALBANY, NY; Owner: 6 JOHNSON ROAD LICENSES, INC.)
- WTIC (1080 AM; 50 kW; HARTFORD, CT; Owner: INFINITY RADIO OPERATIONS INC.)
- WTMM (1300 AM; 5 kW; RENSSELAER, NY; Owner: REGENT LICENSEE OF MANSFIELD, INC.)
- WFAN (660 AM; 50 kW; NEW YORK, NY; Owner: INFINITY BROADCASTING OPERATIONS, INC.)
- WMCA (570 AM; 50 kW; NEW YORK, NY; Owner: SALEM MEDIA OF NEW YORK, LLC)
- WGHQ (920 AM; 5 kW; KINGSTON, NY; Owner: CLEVELAND RADIO LICENSES, LLC)
- WABC (770 AM; 50 kW; NEW YORK, NY; Owner: WABC-AM RADIO, INC.)
- WOR (710 AM; 50 kW; NEW YORK, NY; Owner: BUCKLEY BROADCASTING CORPORATION)
- WCRN (830 AM; 50 kW; WORCESTER, MA; Owner: CARTER BROADCASTING CORPORATION)
Strongest FM radio stations in Athens:
- WCTW (98.5 FM; CATSKILL, NY; Owner: CLEAR CHANNEL BROADCASTING LICENSES, INC.)
- WAMK (90.9 FM; KINGSTON, NY; Owner: W A M C)
- WFGB (89.7 FM; KINGSTON, NY; Owner: SOUND OF LIFE, INC.)
- WHVP (91.1 FM; HUDSON, NY; Owner: SOUND OF LIFE, INC.)
- WAMQ (105.1 FM; GREAT BARRINGTON, MA; Owner: WAMC)
- WRIP (97.9 FM; WINDHAM, NY; Owner: RIP RADIO, LLC)
- WAJZ (96.3 FM; VOORHEESVILLE, NY; Owner: 6 JOHNSON ROAD LICENSES, INC.)
- WAMC-FM (90.3 FM; ALBANY, NY; Owner: WAMC)
- WZMR (104.9 FM; ALTAMONT, NY; Owner: 6 JOHNSON ROAD LICENSES, INC.)
- WYJB (95.5 FM; ALBANY, NY; Owner: 6 JOHNSON ROAD LICENSES, INC.)
- WGNA-FM (107.7 FM; ALBANY, NY; Owner: REGENT LICENSEE OF MANSFIELD, INC.)
- WPDH (101.5 FM; POUGHKEEPSIE, NY; Owner: CUMULUS LICENSING CORP.)
- WRVE (99.5 FM; SCHENECTADY, NY; Owner: CLEAR CHANNEL BROADCASTING LICENSES, INC.)
- WMHT-FM (89.1 FM; SCHENECTADY, NY; Owner: WMHT EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS)
- WPYX (106.5 FM; ALBANY, NY; Owner: CAPSTAR TX LIMITED PARTNERSHIP)
- WVCR-FM (88.3 FM; LOUDONVILLE, NY; Owner: SIENA COLLEGE)
- WFLY (92.3 FM; TROY, NY; Owner: 6 JOHNSON ROAD LICENSES, INC.)
- WFNP (88.7 FM; ROSENDALE, NY; Owner: STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK)
- WRHV (88.7 FM; POUGHKEEPSIE, NY; Owner: WMHT EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS)
- WGKR (105.3 FM; GRAND GORGE, NY; Owner: SOUND OF LIFE, INC.)
TV broadcast stations around Athens:
- W21BU (Channel 21; HUDSON ET AL, NY; Owner: MARTIN MEDIA INDUSTRIES, INC.)
- WNYT (Channel 13; ALBANY, NY; Owner: WNYT-TV, LLC)
- WEWB-TV (Channel 45; SCHENECTADY, NY; Owner: WEWB, L.L.C.)
- WRGB (Channel 6; SCHENECTADY, NY; Owner: FREEDOM BROADCASTING OF NEW YORK, INC)
- WMHT (Channel 17; SCHENECTADY, NY; Owner: WMHT EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS)
- WTEN (Channel 10; ALBANY, NY; Owner: YOUNG BROADCASTING OF ALBANY, INC.)
- WXXA-TV (Channel 23; ALBANY, NY; Owner: CLEAR CHANNEL BROADCASTING LICENSES, INC.)
Athens, New York:
- Fatal accident count: 10
- Vehicles involved in fatal accidents: 16
- Fatal accidents caused by drunken drivers: 3
- Fatalities: 10
- Persons involved in fatal accidents: 29
- Pedestrians involved in fatal accidents: 0
New York average:
- Fatal accident count: 73
- Vehicles involved in fatal accidents: 106
- Fatal accidents caused by drunken drivers: 19
- Fatalities: 79
- Persons involved in fatal accidents: 184
- Pedestrians involved in fatal accidents: 11
See more detailed statistics of Athens fatal car crashes and road traffic accidents for 1975 - 2009 here
FCC Registered Antenna Towers: 13 ( See the full list of FCC Registered Antenna Towers in Athens)
FCC Registered Private Land Mobile Towers: 2 - 39 Third Street (Lat: 42.260889 Lon: -73.814500), Type: Tower, Structure height: 18 m, Overall height: 21 m, Call Sign: WQFK472, Licensee ID: L00064920
Assigned Frequencies: 46.1400 MHz Grant Date: 08/04/2006, Expiration Date: 08/04/2016, Certifier: Peter Alberti
Registrant: Athens, Village Of, 2 First Street, Athens, NY 12015, Phone: (518) 945-1551, Email:
- Lat: 42.312556 Lon: -73.882306, Call Sign: WQIU436
Assigned Frequencies: 458.112 MHz Grant Date: 05/15/2008, Expiration Date: 05/15/2018, Certifier: Andrea Smallwood
Registrant: Atlas License Company, 7202 N. Shadeland Ave Ste 215, Indianapolis, IN 46250, Phone: (317) 813-4865, Fax: (317) 813-4870, Email:
FCC Registered Microwave Towers: 2 - STATION, Athens Elementary School On 3rd Street (Lat: 42.262583 Lon: -73.817611), Structure height: 12.2 m, Overall height: 30.5 m, Call Sign: WNEI275
Assigned Frequencies: 957.950 MHz, 958.350 MHz Grant Date: 02/27/1996, Expiration Date: 02/27/2001, Cancellation Date: 06/03/2001
Registrant: Phone: (518) 477-8771 - STATION, Athens 3rd St Elementary School (Lat: 42.262583 Lon: -73.817611), Overall height: 42.7 m, Call Sign: WNTL488
Assigned Frequencies: 6785.62 MHz Grant Date: 01/31/1997, Expiration Date: 01/31/2002, Cancellation Date: 05/05/2002
Registrant: Phone: (716) 822-3692
FCC Registered Amateur Radio Licenses: 15 ( See the full list of FCC Registered Amateur Radio Licenses in Athens)
FAA Registered Aircraft: 2 - Aircraft: PIPER PA-28-140 (Category: Land, Seats: 4, Weight: Up to 12,499 Pounds, Speed: 107 mph), Engine: LYCOMING 0-320 SERIES (180 HP) (Reciprocating)
N-Number: 67WA , Serial Number: 28-7125267, Year manufactured: 1971, Airworthiness Date: 03/12/1971
Registrant (Corporation): Capital District Pilots Association LLC, 121 Tammy Trail Unit 1012, Athens, NY 12015 - Aircraft: BELLANCA 7GCAA (Category: Land, Seats: 2, Weight: Up to 12,499 Pounds, Speed: 90 mph), Engine: LYCOMING 0-320 SERIES (180 HP) (Reciprocating)
N-Number: 73TD , Serial Number: 278-73, Year manufactured: 1973, Airworthiness Date: 09/20/1973
Registrant (Individual): Robert Szego, 45 Whitney Pt, Athens, NY 12015
2006 National Fire Incident Reporting System Incidents:
Businesses in Athens, NY
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