Cayuga County, New York

• White (non-Hispanic) 65,280 86.9%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2,731 3.6%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 2,486 3.3%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 493 0.7%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 3,644 4.9%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 106 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 0 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 362 0.5%

• Under 18 14,516 19.3%
• 18–24 5,624 7.5%
• 25–44 18,575 24.7%
• 45–64 20,358 27.1%
• 65 and over 16,029 21.3%

Median household income

$67,774

90% interval $63,243–$72,305

−$17,994 vs NY · 46th of 62

Below poverty line

13.5%

90% interval 11.2%–15.8%

−0.5 pp vs NY · 23rd of 62

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.9%

−0.72 pp vs. state

County GDP

$4.1B

0.17% of state

Avg. annual pay

$65,392

Establishments

1,717

• Education & health services 6,330 25.8%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 4,733 19.3%
• Manufacturing 3,339 13.6%
• Leisure & hospitality 2,289 9.3%
• Public administration 1,567 6.4%
• Professional & business services 1,339 5.5%
• Construction 1,096 4.5%
• Natural resources & mining 1,021 4.2%
• Other services 731 3.0%
• Financial activities 402 1.6%
• Information 197 0.8%
• Unclassified 68 0.3%

The sectors listed cover 94.2% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

71.4%

+17.1 pp vs NY · 33rd of 62

Median gross rent

$942

−$679 vs NY · 36th of 62

Owner-occupied

22,518

Renter-occupied

9,006

• Moderately concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 59% of the county workforce. Substantial intra-sector overlap among panelists is likely; confirm employer relationships before sector-specific framing.

• Moderate wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Construction, $87,507/yr) pays 3.1× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $27,864/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 14 workers, a mix of institutional employers and small businesses. Both employed-by-large-institution and small-business-owner perspectives are likely on the panel.

• Republican 20,482 56.5%
• Democratic 15,772 43.5%

• Spanish 1,360 1.9%
• German or other West Germanic 536 0.7%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 189 0.3%
• Tagalog 104 0.1%
• Chinese 91 0.1%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 73 0.1%
• Arabic 16 0.0%
• Vietnamese 4 0.0%
• Korean 1 0.0%

Households

31,524

Family households

19,182

60.8% of households

Married couples w/ children

4,131

21.5% of families

Single-mother families

1,920

10.0% of families

Veterans

4,189

6.9% of civilians 18+

• Catholic 24,091 31.6%
• Mainline Protestant 4,148 5.4%
• Evangelical Protestant 3,190 4.2%
• Black Protestant 896 1.2%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 838 1.1%
• Orthodox 150 0.2%

Health insured

95.5%

±0.6 pp

Uninsured

4.5%

±0.6 pp

28th of 62

With a disability

14.3%

±0.9 pp

39th of 62

Bachelor's or higher

24.6%

±1.3 pp

−15.6 pp vs NY · 49th of 62

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

5.6%

90% interval 5.0%–6.2% · Census SAHIE

The under-65 uninsured rate is not comparable to the ACS insurance figures, which cover all ages.

Trial court

7th Judicial District Supreme Court

Judges

14 (Elected Supreme Court Justices per Judicial District (general civil + felony criminal jurisdiction). Excludes Acting Supreme Court Justices designated from lower courts (would roughly double the bench in NYC + Long Island). Vintage 2026 nycourts.gov + Judiciary Law § 140-a; counts are approximate and shift with vacancies/redistributions.)

Court seats

Auburn, Bath, Canandaigua, Geneseo, Lyons, Penn Yan, Rochester, Waterloo

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

9

14.85 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

8