Fastest growing towns in Upstate NY (New York, Buffalo: houses, living in, military)

[bellafinzi]

Don't worry, I did this research for myself. I'm just sharing it as it might be useful to some of you.

*This does NOT include the Lower Hudson Valley or any suburbs of NYC. Only includes places that had over 300 new single family homes built between 2000 and 2006.

Data based on total number of single family home building permits from 2000 to 2006 source: SOCDS Building Permits Database

Place - number of SF building permits

Fort Drum (outside Watertown) 1,470

Glens Falls Area
Unincorporated 1,529
Wilton 1,041
Queesbury 981

Capital District Area
Clifton Park 1,584
Colonie 1,217
Bethlehem 984
Halfmoon 840
Saratoga Springs 787
Guilderland 639
Malta 541
East Greenbush 487
Niskayuna 466
Glenville 414
Moreau 412
Greenfield 340
Schodack 328
Ballston 321
Stillwater 316

Syracuse Area
Cicero 1,334
Clay 875
Lysander 723
Manlius 601
Camillus 547
Onondaga 546
DeWitt 444
Pompey 321

Rochester Area
Webster 1,757
Greece 1,479
Henrietta 1,176
Penfield 918
Victor 804
Perinton 785
Chili 779
Pittsford 661
Ogden 545
Canandaigua 441
Parma 427
Ontario 407
Farmington 300

Buffalo Area
Amherst 1,542
Hamburg 1,378
Clarence 1,328
Lancaster 1,184
Wheatfield 1,179
Lockport 719
Orchard Park 705
Grand Island 597
West Seneca 479
Elma 318

No towns around Utica, Binghamton, Ithaca, or Elmira exceeded 300 SF building permits built between 2000 and 2006- that's why they aren't on the list of fastest growing towns in Upstate NY.

[ontheroad]

Interesting information! Do you know how these figures compare with influx of people. I would think Ithaca for example may have a large rotating population but no new housing. Only speculating of course!

[xamsx]

I'm shocked Wheatfield and Clarence weren't at the top of the Buffalo area list.


Thanks for the info, bellafinzi.

[I'minformed2]

So the Rochester suburb of Webster is the fastest growing town in Upstate NY....wow. Can't say I'm TOO surprised....I knew it was the fastest in Rochester and WNY...but I would have thought maybe some towns in the Albany area would have more.

[vicarian]

Originally Posted by ontheroad

Interesting information! Do you know how these figures compare with influx of people. I would think Ithaca for example may have a large rotating population but no new housing. Only speculating of course!

Well, that's largely correct. There's great changes in the individuals that comprise the metro, but the population as a whole has increased only about 6% in the past decade.

Also, note that this information is for single family housing. I suspect that if we include multi-family housing, things would appear slightly different, although the jist of things would be the same.

Using Bellafinzi's link, I played with the data. I'm originally from Syracuse, so I played with that. Let's look at the data for combined multi-family and single-family housing for the same time period.

Our original data (only communities w/ more than 300 units included):

Syracuse Area
Cicero 1,334
Clay 875
Lysander 723
Manlius 601
Camillus 547
Onondaga 546
DeWitt 444
Pompey 321

Our "new" data

Syracuse Area
Cicero 1,340 (+6)
Clay 1,128 (+253)
Lysander 959 (+236)
Manlius 729 (+128)
Onondaga 662 (+116)
Salina 581 (+363)
Camillus 565 (+18)
DeWitt 444 (+0)
Pompey 321 (+0)

It's very interesting to play with the numbers. Considering Ithaca, as Bellafinzi noted, Ithaca doesn't have too many single-family houses being built. Let's look at Ithaca city and town, and its two largest suburbs (if I can call them that), Lansing and Dryden.

Lansing (town): 273
Dryden (town): 233
Ithaca (town): 163
Ithaca (city): 29

With multi-family units:

Ithaca (town): 587 (+424)
Ithaca (city): 496 (+467)
Dryden (town): 357 (+124)
Lansing (town): 286 (+13)

^Not too shabby for a metro one-sixth the size of Syracuse, or about one-tenth of Buffalo. By the way, Bellafinzi, thanks for sharing this info with us!

[ontheroad]

Thank very much for taking all the time and trouble to add to bellafinzi's data.

Originally Posted by vicarian

Well, that's largely correct. There's great changes in the individuals that comprise the metro, but the population as hole as increased only about 6% in the past decade.

Also, note that this information is for single family housing. I suspect that if we include multi-family housing, things would appear slightly different, although the jist of things would be the same.

Using Bellafinzi's link, I played with the data. I'm originally from Syracuse, so I played with that. Let's look at the data for combined multi-family and single-family housing for the same time period.

Our original data (only communities w/ more than 300 units included):

Syracuse Area
Cicero 1,334
Clay 875
Lysander 723
Manlius 601
Camillus 547
Onondaga 546
DeWitt 444
Pompey 321

Our "new" data

Syracuse Area
Cicero 1,340 (+6)
Clay 1,128 (+253)
Lysander 959 (+236)
Manlius 729 (+128)
Onondaga 662 (+116)
Salina 581 (+363)
Camillus 565 (+18)
DeWitt 444 (+0)
Pompey 321 (+0)

It's very interesting to play with the numbers. Considering Ithaca, as Bellafinzi noted, Ithaca doesn't have too many single-family houses being built. Let's look at Ithaca city and town, and its two largest suburbs (if I can call them that), Lansing and Dryden.

Lansing (town): 273
Dryden (town): 233
Ithaca (town): 163
Ithaca (city): 29

With multi-family units:

Ithaca (town): 587 (+424)
Ithaca (city): 496 (+467)
Dryden (town): 357 (+124)
Lansing (town): 286 (+13)

^Not too shabby for a metro one-sixth the size of Syracuse, or about one-tenth of Buffalo. By the way, Bellafinzi, thanks for sharing this info with us!

[joer]

Good to know. I'll be sure to stay away from those places! I'm looking for limited to no growth....and no I don't care about the job prospects!

[JiminCT]

Watertown is military....lots of stores and shopping being built. CHRONIC shortage of housing tho.

[41Willys]

I have family in Burlington Flats. 50 minutes to Utica, 25 to CoopersTown. Dude there aint nothing there but dairy farmers! My Grandfather moved 1.5 years ago and sold his house to my brother.6 bedrooms 1 bath 2 barns and a stream on 8 acres for 60,000 beans! 60,000 beans!! But, theres nothing there,NOTHING!!

[Mike Bova]

I'm was born and raised in Watertown (now living in the Utica area,) and Jefferson County is the fastest growing county in New York State. Nice to finally see something happening there. I do believe the Utica area will boom in the near future.