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c. 1845
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About Utica
City in New York, United StatesUtica ( ) is a city in the state of New York, and the county seat of Oneida County. The tenth-most populous city in New York, its population was 65,283 in the 2020 census. It is located on the Mohawk River in the Mohawk Valley at the foot of the Adirondack Mountains, approximately 95 mi (153 km) west-northwest of Albany, 55 mi (89 km) east of Syracuse and 240 mi (386 km) northwest of New York City. Utica and the nearby city of Rome anchor the Utica–Rome metropolitan area comprising all of Oneida and Herkimer counties. Formerly a river settlement inhabited by the Mohawk Nation of the Iroquois Confederacy, Utica attracted European-American settlers from New England during and after the Americ…
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How Utica ranks
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Housing in Utica
The typical Utica home is worth about $212,000, up 7% in a year, 60% below the New York typical home.
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Safety in Utica
Safety Grade D
Utica reports more crime per resident than most U.S. towns we grade: about 89% report less.
Schools in Utica
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The public schools Utica’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 95% 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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