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Gananda is a small master-planned community and census-designated place in Wayne County, New York, straddling the adjoining towns of Walworth and Macedon about 20 miles east of Rochester.

Gananda was one of thirteen planned communities receiving federal guaranty assistance from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development under its New Communities Program, created by the National Urban Policy and New Community Development Act of 1970.

It was originally designed to become a city of more than 90,000 residents on 10,500 acres, with approximately 17,000 houses, 12 neighborhood centers and a major regional shopping center.

When HUD denied additional funding at the end of 1974, it sold back all but about 1,500 acres of the proposed city, and the plan collapsed into a much smaller residential community.

As of the 2020 census, Gananda had a population of 5,867, living in 2,170 households.

Gananda does not have its own ZIP Code — one reason it is considered a community rather than a municipality — and its addresses use the surrounding towns' postal codes.

The Gananda Central School District was created by a special act of the New York State legislature in January 1973 from land ceded by the Wayne Central and Palmyra-Macedon districts, and its first students began attending on September 5, 1974.

The Gananda Central School District covers about six square miles in portions of Walworth and Macedon and served approximately 902 students in the 2023–24 school year.

Gananda's population grew quickly as the planned community filled in, rising from 2,195 in 1990 to 4,939 in 2000 and 5,794 in 2010 before leveling off at 5,867 in 2020.