Rome
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Outdoors in Rome
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1870
Celebration of Italian unification in New York City and Italian troops entering Rome, 1870
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About Rome
City in New York, United StatesRome is a city in Oneida County, New York, United States, located in the central part of the state. The population was 32,127 at the 2020 census. Rome is one of two principal cities in the Utica–Rome Metropolitan Statistical Area, which lies in the "Leatherstocking Country" made famous by James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales, set in frontier days before the American Revolutionary War. Rome is in New York's 21st congressional district. The city developed at an ancient portage site of Native Americans, including the historic Iroquois nations. This portage continued to be strategically important to Europeans, who also used the main 18th and 19th-century waterways, based on the Mohawk …
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How Rome ranks
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Housing in Rome
The typical Rome home is worth about $215,000, up 6.4% in a year, 59% below the New York typical home.
A seller's market
Safety in Rome
Safety Grade C
Rome reports more crime per resident than most U.S. towns we grade: about 67% report less.
Schools in Rome
All Rome schools →School Grade D
The public schools Rome’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 91% of New York’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the bottom.
School data from the U.S. Department of Education (NCES, EDFacts). The School Grade is our own summary of state test results and graduation rates, graded within NY. Ratings are from neighbors.
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