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, NY154 restaurants with violation records82%
- 2Oneida County, NY995 restaurants with violation records70%
- 3Cayuga County, NY308 restaurants with violation records63%
- 4Tompkins County, NY515 restaurants with violation records61%
- 5Wayne County, NY297 restaurants with violation records59%
- 6Oswego County, NY443 restaurants with violation records59%
- 7Orange County, NY1,574 restaurants with violation records57%
- 8Clinton County, NY344 restaurants with violation records56%
- 9Fulton County, NY218 restaurants with violation records56%
- 10Niagara County, NY1,204 restaurants with violation records55%
- 11Herkimer County, NY290 restaurants with violation records54%
- 12Montgomery County, NY185 restaurants with violation records54%
- 13Columbia County, NY286 restaurants with violation records53%
- 14Allegany County, NY195 restaurants with violation records52%
- 15Chautauqua County, NY643 restaurants with violation records52%
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.