THE NUMBERS
Inspection rankings in New York.
Raw counts from official records, with the context you need to read them.
Read these with care. Health departments inspect on different schedules and by different rules, and bigger areas have more restaurants. A high closure count can mean strict enforcement as much as unsafe kitchens. This is not a safety ranking.
Most closure records, last six months
Highest share with a clean latest inspection
- 1Schoharie County, NY151 restaurants with violation records81%
- 2Oneida County, NY994 restaurants with violation records70%
- 3Cayuga County, NY304 restaurants with violation records63%
- 4Oswego County, NY443 restaurants with violation records60%
- 5Wayne County, NY292 restaurants with violation records60%
- 6Tompkins County, NY505 restaurants with violation records59%
- 7Fulton County, NY214 restaurants with violation records57%
- 8Orange County, NY1,568 restaurants with violation records57%
- 9Clinton County, NY339 restaurants with violation records56%
- 10Niagara County, NY1,188 restaurants with violation records55%
- 11Herkimer County, NY289 restaurants with violation records55%
- 12Allegany County, NY194 restaurants with violation records54%
- 13Columbia County, NY285 restaurants with violation records54%
- 14Montgomery County, NY183 restaurants with violation records52%
- 15Chautauqua County, NY640 restaurants with violation records51%
Only areas that publish individual violations and have at least 100 restaurants are listed. “Clean” means no violations recorded at the latest inspection.
Counts refresh every day from the departments’ own records. A closure record is a restaurant whose inspection was recorded as a closure in the past 180 days.