Fulton County, New York

• White (non-Hispanic) 46,125 87.9%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2,294 4.4%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 752 1.4%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 479 0.9%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 2,581 4.9%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 2 0.0%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 38 0.1%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 216 0.4%

• Under 18 10,491 20.0%
• 18–24 3,923 7.5%
• 25–44 12,435 23.7%
• 45–64 14,704 28.0%
• 65 and over 10,934 20.8%

Median household income

$66,757

90% interval $61,721–$71,793

−$19,011 vs NY · 49th of 62

Below poverty line

12.7%

90% interval 10.1%–15.3%

−1.3 pp vs NY · 32nd of 62

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.4%

−0.14 pp vs. state

County GDP

$2.4B

0.11% of state

Avg. annual pay

$57,211

Establishments

1,152

• Education & health services 5,103 31.6%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 4,327 26.8%
• Manufacturing 1,485 9.2%
• Leisure & hospitality 1,212 7.5%
• Public administration 1,001 6.2%
• Professional & business services 786 4.9%
• Construction 618 3.8%
• Other services 587 3.6%
• Financial activities 405 2.5%
• Information 109 0.7%
• Natural resources & mining 63 0.4%
• Unclassified 44 0.3%

The sectors listed cover 97.4% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

71.4%

+17.1 pp vs NY · 34th of 62

Median gross rent

$912

−$709 vs NY · 45th of 62

Owner-occupied

16,320

Renter-occupied

6,546

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 68% of the county workforce. Most panelists likely share employer relationships within these sectors, surface those connections early in voir dire before any institutional-defendant or sector-specific framing.

• Moderate wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Financial activities, $82,979/yr) pays 3.5× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $24,035/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 16,237 67.9%
• Democratic 7,666 32.1%

• Spanish 841 1.7%
• Chinese 179 0.4%
• Arabic 99 0.2%
• German or other West Germanic 98 0.2%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 74 0.1%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 74 0.1%
• Tagalog 39 0.1%
• Vietnamese 14 0.0%
• Korean 9 0.0%

Households

22,866

Family households

14,045

61.4% of households

Married couples w/ children

3,109

22.1% of families

Single-mother families

1,615

11.5% of families

Veterans

3,478

8.3% of civilians 18+

• Catholic 5,761 10.8%
• Mainline Protestant 2,960 5.6%
• Evangelical Protestant 2,227 4.2%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 1,481 2.8%

Health insured

96.2%

±0.7 pp

Uninsured

3.8%

±0.7 pp

39th of 62

With a disability

16.5%

±1.2 pp

15th of 62

Bachelor's or higher

20.9%

±1.6 pp

−19.3 pp vs NY · 58th of 62

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

5.5%

90% interval 4.8%–6.2% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

4th Judicial District Supreme Court

Judges

13 (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

Ballston Spa, Canton, Elizabethtown, Fonda, Fort Edward, Johnstown, Lake Pleasant, Malone, Plattsburgh, Queensbury, Schenectady

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

8

19.05 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

8