Public data about the village — crime, courts, housing, schools and money — assembled from official sources. Every figure below links to where it came from.
Figures carry different vintages. Population and median household income: U.S. Census ACS 5-Year, 2019–2023. Typical home value: Zillow ZHVI, Croton-on-Hudson postal area, 2026-06. Fiscal stress: NYS Comptroller, 2024 — “No Designation”, the healthiest category. Enrollment: NYSED district profile, 2024–25.
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Seven Census measures plus reported crime, each indexed to its 2000 value so they share one scale. The flat line along the bottom is the population: Croton has barely grown, everything it costs to live here has risen — and crime is the one line that fell.
Indexed: each line starts at 100 in 2000. A line at 250 means that measure is 2½ times what it was. The 2000 point comes from the decennial Census; annual ACS estimates begin in 2013, so the early stretch bridges years with no survey. Explore this data →
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, 2000–2023, Croton-on-Hudson village (place FIPS 3619213); crime from NYS Division of Criminal Justice Services, Index Crimes by Agency (Croton-on-Hudson Village PD). Each ACS release covers a rolling five-year window, so values move gradually by design.
The adopted 2026-27 village budget, all funds. Open any slice and keep going — down through departments to individual budget lines, with related contracts and resolutions linked to their meetings.
Source: Village of Croton-on-Hudson Adopted Budget FY2026-27, Detail of Expense Appropriations.
Index crimes reported by Croton-on-Hudson Village PD — 35 years of state records. “Index crimes” is the state’s standard set of seven serious offences (murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny and motor-vehicle theft), so the figure is comparable year to year.
Compare with other villages, per 1,000 residents →
| Year | Violent | Property | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 1 | 57 | 58 |
| 2023 | 3 | 54 | 57 |
| 2022 | 3 | 59 | 62 |
| 2021 | 3 | 37 | 40 |
| 2020 | 2 | 35 | 37 |
| 2019 | 3 | 36 | 39 |
| 2018 | 2 | 31 | 33 |
| 2017 | 4 | 38 | 42 |
| 2016 | 0 | 31 | 31 |
| 2015 | 4 | 27 | 31 |
| 2014 | 3 | 43 | 46 |
| 2013 | 1 | 53 | 54 |
| 2012 | 1 | 69 | 70 |
| 2011 | 1 | 65 | 66 |
| 2010 | 2 | 70 | 72 |
| 2009 | 3 | 73 | 76 |
| 2008 | 3 | 81 | 84 |
| 2007 | 4 | 93 | 97 |
| 2006 | 2 | 91 | 93 |
| 2005 | 2 | 104 | 106 |
| 2004 | 5 | 129 | 134 |
| 2003 | 5 | 127 | 132 |
| 2002 | 5 | 152 | 157 |
| 2001 | 5 | 118 | 123 |
| 2000 | 8 | 132 | 140 |
| 1999 | 8 | 135 | 143 |
| 1998 | 13 | 141 | 154 |
| 1997 | 15 | 105 | 120 |
| 1996 | 14 | 113 | 127 |
| 1995 | 8 | 107 | 115 |
| 1994 | 10 | 116 | 126 |
| 1993 | 9 | 128 | 137 |
| 1992 | 13 | 179 | 192 |
| 1991 | 14 | 163 | 177 |
| 1990 | 9 | 183 | 192 |
Source: NYS Division of Criminal Justice Services, Index Crimes by County and Agency.
The typical single-family home, monthly since 2000 — through the 2008 crash and out the other side.
Source: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), smoothed, seasonally adjusted — Croton-on-Hudson postal area (close to, but not exactly, the village boundary).
Metro-North ridership system-wide — the railroad Croton commuters ride. It still carries fewer riders than it did before 2020. This is a different measure from the “Commuters” line above: that one counts Croton residents who commute by any means, from a Census survey averaged over five years — so the 2020 cliff is smeared into a gentle slide there, while these monthly ticket counts show the event itself.
Source: MTA monthly ridership (data.ny.gov), Metro-North Railroad system-wide — not station-level.
The village's own 2024 comparison of village police departments. Croton has the 4th-lowest per-capita police spending of the 16 villages compared, despite the 2nd-largest land area.
| Village | Pop. | Area mi² | Officers | Budget | Per capita |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hastings-on-Hudson | 8,700 | 1.98 | 21 | $3.24M | $373 |
| Dobbs Ferry | 11,500 | 2.42 | 27 | $4.36M | $379 |
| Rye Brook | 9,900 | 3.43 | 27 | $4.36M | $440 |
| Croton-on-Hudson | 8,300 | 4.69 | 21 | $3.66M | $441 |
| Sleepy Hollow | 10,500 | 2.24 | 29 | $5.23M | $498 |
| Tarrytown | 11,800 | 2.94 | 34 | $6.72M | $569 |
| Pelham | 7,200 | 2.17 | 24 | $4.27M | $593 |
| Pleasantville | 7,000 | 1.85 | 23 | $4.23M | $604 |
| Irvington | 6,700 | 2.79 | 24 | $4.20M | $627 |
| Bronxville | 6,500 | 0.97 | 23 | $4.35M | $669 |
| Larchmont | 6,600 | 1.1 | 24 | $4.44M | $673 |
| Elmsford | 5,200 | 1.06 | 22 | $3.54M | $681 |
| Tuckahoe | 7,000 | 0.6 | 23 | $4.89M | $699 |
| Briarcliff Manor | 8,000 | 6.0 | 20 | $5.74M | $718 |
| Ardsley | 5,100 | 1.32 | 20 | $3.80M | $745 |
| Pelham Manor | 5,500 | 1.35 | 27 | $5.16M | $938 |
Source: Village of Croton-on-Hudson Police Department, “Comparison of Village Police Departments,” 2024. Populations are rounded estimates as published; figures are 2024 vintage.
New York's Comptroller scores every local government for financial stress — lower is healthier, and “No Designation” is the best category.
Source: NYS Office of the State Comptroller, Fiscal Stress Monitoring System. Scores run 0–100; a municipality is designated “Susceptible to Fiscal Stress” at 45 and above. Bars are shown against that 45-point threshold — every municipality here is well below it.
Financial actions our reporting extracted from official meeting minutes, counted by category. These are counts, not a budget: the “budget” category is mostly the routine voucher run approved at every meeting, so the amounts must not be added together.
| Largest single figures recorded | Type | Date | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adopted 2026-2027 Superintendent's Budget for Croton-Harmon School District | budget | 2026-04-21 | $62,762,808 |
| Approved 2026-2027 PNW BOCES tentative administrative budget | budget | 2026-04-21 | $12,679,000 |
| Westchester County Housing Implementation Fund IMDA funding (not to exceed)… | grant | 2025-11-19 | $6,000,000 |
| Van Cortlandt Manor Entrance Project - Remus Industries total bid including… | contract | 2025-12-17 | $2,666,671 |
| Purchase contract with Seagrave Fire Apparatus LLC for fire apparatus (HGAC) | contract | 2026-03-11 | $1,789,929 |
| Transfer to 2013 Capital Reserve Fund from unappropriated fund balance (not… | reserve | 2026-06-29 | $1,661,800 |
| Bond authorization: Brook Street Drainage Project | budget | 2026-06-17 | $1,519,525 |
| Bond authorization: reconstruction of Half Moon Bay Bridge | budget | 2026-06-17 | $1,250,000 |
Source: croton.news extraction from official meeting minutes; every figure verified word-for-word against its source document and linked to the meeting it came from. Recurring voucher runs are excluded from the list above.
Figures come from the U.S. Census Bureau, the NYS Comptroller, the NYS Division of Criminal Justice Services, NYSED, the MTA, Zillow, and the Village of Croton-on-Hudson's own records. Each panel names its source. Where a figure was extracted from meeting minutes, it was checked word-for-word against the original document before publication. Corrections: send us a note.