Columbia County, New York

• White (non-Hispanic) 50,351 82.4%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3,827 6.3%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 2,169 3.5%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 1,308 2.1%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 2,933 4.8%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 13 0.0%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 7 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 492 0.8%

• Under 18 9,724 15.9%
• 18–24 3,895 6.4%
• 25–44 13,637 22.3%
• 45–64 17,821 29.2%
• 65 and over 16,023 26.2%

Median household income

$80,397

90% interval $73,235–$87,559

−$5,371 vs NY · 17th of 62

Below poverty line

11.1%

90% interval 9.0%–13.2%

−2.9 pp vs NY · 49th of 62

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.5%

−1.02 pp vs. state

County GDP

$3.5B

0.15% of state

Avg. annual pay

$58,931

Establishments

2,208

• Education & health services 5,854 28.0%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 4,099 19.6%
• Leisure & hospitality 2,404 11.5%
• Manufacturing 1,475 7.1%
• Public administration 1,357 6.5%
• Professional & business services 1,324 6.3%
• Construction 1,235 5.9%
• Natural resources & mining 995 4.8%
• Other services 621 3.0%
• Financial activities 533 2.5%
• Information 168 0.8%
• Unclassified 139 0.7%

The sectors listed cover 96.6% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

76.3%

+22.0 pp vs NY · 19th of 62

Median gross rent

$1,260

−$361 vs NY · 17th of 62

Owner-occupied

20,315

Renter-occupied

6,312

• 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 (Information, $86,710/yr) pays 2.5× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $34,403/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Small-business scale

  Average establishment employs only 9.5 workers, a small-business-dominated local economy. Expect more self-employed and small-business-owner panelists than in institutional-employer venues.

• Democratic 20,396 57.4%
• Republican 15,168 42.6%

• Spanish 2,349 4.0%
• German or other West Germanic 760 1.3%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 325 0.6%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 285 0.5%
• Chinese 113 0.2%
• Tagalog 62 0.1%
• Vietnamese 44 0.1%
• Arabic 21 0.0%
• Korean 6 0.0%

Households

26,627

Family households

16,809

63.1% of households

Married couples w/ children

3,490

20.8% of families

Single-mother families

1,358

8.1% of families

Veterans

3,191

6.2% of civilians 18+

• Catholic 6,992 11.4%
• Mainline Protestant 4,566 7.4%
• Evangelical Protestant 2,012 3.3%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 1,571 2.6%
• Black Protestant 254 0.4%
• Orthodox 60 0.1%

Health insured

96.6%

±0.7 pp

Uninsured

3.4%

±0.7 pp

50th of 62

With a disability

15.9%

±1 pp

21st of 62

Bachelor's or higher

39.4%

±1.9 pp

−0.8 pp vs NY · 13th of 62

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

5.6%

90% interval 4.9%–6.3% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

3rd Judicial District Supreme Court

Judges

12 (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

Albany, Catskill, Hudson, Kingston, Monticello, Schoharie, Troy

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

5

9.73 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

5