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Counties With the Cheapest Homeowners Insurance in New York (2026)

Chemung has the lowest homeowners insurance of any county in New York, at $1,015, followed by Chautauqua and Wayne. Source: Keys-Mulder escrow dataset (NBER WP 32579), Escrow 2024. The full ranking of the top 25 counties is below.

Data updated 2024 - Source: Keys-Mulder escrow dataset (NBER WP 32579)

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Cheapest counties for homeowners insurance in New York

Top 25 of 62 counties with data.

Ranked by homeowners insurance cost (Keys-Mulder escrow dataset (NBER WP 32579), Escrow 2024), lowest first.

Cheapest counties for homeowners insurance in New York
RankCountyValue
1Chemung$1,015
2Chautauqua$1,043
3Wayne$1,050
4Broome$1,088
5Seneca$1,088
6Livingston$1,130
7Wyoming$1,153
8Yates$1,183
9Schenectady$1,186
10Warren$1,193
11Allegany$1,206
12Franklin$1,216
13Rensselaer$1,218
14Onondaga$1,224
15Orleans$1,239
16Washington$1,240
17Cortland$1,254
18Clinton$1,273
19Tioga$1,275
20St. Lawrence$1,275
21Schoharie$1,283
22Cattaraugus$1,301
23Genesee$1,312
24Lewis$1,314
25Essex$1,318

How this ranking works

This page ranks New York counties by homeowners insurance cost, sorted so the cheapest places appear first. Click any county to see its housing, schools, crime, and demographics in detail.

For homeowners insurance, a lower value is generally more favorable, so the top of the list is the lowest. Want to weigh homeowners insurance against schools, taxes, commute, and more at once? Use the live map to build a custom match.

Data comes from public sources. Source attribution and the exact data vintage are shown above and on the full map of homeowners insurance cost.

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