A tour of a park shows you a mowed lawn and a fresh coat of paint on the office. It does not show you a septic system that has been overflowing for two years. That part is usually written down somewhere, by an inspector, months before you ever drove in.
In New York, county health departments inspect mobile home parks and the results go into a public state file. You can read it. Here is what is in it, how to read it without panicking, and what it actually looks like across the parks in this directory.
Where the record comes from
Two public files sit behind every New York page on this site. The first is the state's annual mobile home park report on data.ny.gov, which lists 1,161 parks for the 2025 report year with their site counts, occupancy, owner of record and amenities. The second is the county health department inspection file on health.data.ny.gov, which carries 1,890 inspection rows.
The inspection row is the useful half. Each one records the date of the last inspection, the number of sites, a count of critical violations, a count of non-critical violations, a count of critical violations not corrected, and the inspector's own written comments.
What the numbers mean in practice
Most inspections find nothing. Of the 811 inspection rows we matched to a park in this directory, 447 recorded at least one violation of any kind and 46 recorded a critical violation. Seven rows recorded a critical violation that had not been corrected at the time of the inspection. That is the denominator worth keeping in your head: a violation count above zero is common, an uncorrected critical violation is rare.
"Critical" and "non-critical" are the inspector's categories, not ours. A critical violation is the kind that affects health and safety directly — sewage on the ground, an open electrical panel. A non-critical one is more often missing skirting, refuse in a common area, or paperwork the operator owes the county.
Read the comments, not just the counts
The comment field is where a two-line row turns into a description of the place. The inspector at Breckenridge Village in Selkirk wrote "No violations. Excellent compliance" after the February 2025 inspection, and the counts agree: zero and zero.
Others read very differently. At Woodlane Village in Adams Center, the April 2025 inspection recorded one critical and three non-critical violations, and the inspector wrote: "Park has many issues with refuse of garbage and being clean in common areas. Park is in need of a cleaning." At Northern Pines Estates in Ballston Spa, the inspector listed the specific lots whose septic systems had been approved for replacement but not yet fixed, and noted that residents said many systems needed pumping weekly to prevent overflows.
That last one is the kind of sentence a tour will never give you. It names a problem, names the lots, and dates it.
Four questions to ask the file
- How recent is the inspection? 614 of the 811 matched rows are from 2025, but the file also holds rows going back to 2018. A park last inspected several years ago has a record that may say nothing about today.
- Were the critical violations corrected? The file tracks that separately. An uncorrected critical violation is the single strongest signal in the row.
- Does the comment describe the whole park or one lot? "The electrical feeder assembly behind lot 31 is missing the internal panel" is a repair. "Park is in need of a cleaning" is a management pattern.
- Is there an inspection at all? 759 of the 1,161 New York parks in this directory have one we could match. The rest do not, which is not a black mark — it usually means the park is not in the published file under a name we could match confidently.
One caveat we will not hide
The state's inspection file carries no registry ID. It identifies a park only by name, address, city and county, so we join the two files by name within the same county. 442 of our matches are exact-name matches; 317 are fuzzy matches on name and city, each checked against the address and operator on the inspection row. Where the match is not certain, the park page says so in plain words above the table, and you should treat that inspection history as unconfirmed. We would rather flag a doubtful join than quietly show you another park's record.
Do this before you sign
- Look the park up by name — start from the New York index or your county, such as Saratoga or Tioga.
- Read the inspection date, the two violation counts, and the comment in full.
- Ask the office about anything in the comment, and ask for the correction in writing.
- Ask the county health department for the full inspection report if the summary raises a question — it is a public record.
- Ask current residents about water, sewage and outages. The file records what an inspector saw on one day; residents live there every day.
Every fact above traces to a named public file, and every park page shows the date we pulled it. Where this data comes from lays out the sources one by one. If you own or manage a park and the record on your page is wrong, you can claim the listing and correct it.