Monroe County, New York

• White (non-Hispanic) 510,587 67.7%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 74,960 9.9%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 101,424 13.5%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 28,293 3.8%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 33,885 4.5%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 532 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 132 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 3,940 0.5%

• Under 18 153,175 20.3%
• 18–24 73,291 9.7%
• 25–44 198,121 26.3%
• 45–64 187,662 24.9%
• 65 and over 141,504 18.8%

Median household income

$76,594

90% interval $74,224–$78,964

−$9,174 vs NY · 22nd of 62

Below poverty line

14.1%

90% interval 13.1%–15.1%

+0.1 pp vs NY · 21st of 62

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.1%

−0.47 pp vs. state

County GDP

$65.1B

2.8% of state

Avg. annual pay

$69,031

Establishments

19,430

• Education & health services 135,380 35.0%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 67,435 17.4%
• Professional & business services 48,684 12.6%
• Manufacturing 34,448 8.9%
• Leisure & hospitality 33,812 8.7%
• Financial activities 18,512 4.8%
• Construction 16,566 4.3%
• Public administration 14,642 3.8%
• Other services 10,819 2.8%
• Information 4,535 1.2%
• Unclassified 1,165 0.3%
• Natural resources & mining 800 0.2%

Home ownership

63.7%

+9.4 pp vs NY · 54th of 62

Median gross rent

$1,173

−$448 vs NY · 21st of 62

Owner-occupied

202,708

Renter-occupied

115,720

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 65% 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, $100,618/yr) pays 3.8× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $26,727/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Institutional employer scale

  Average establishment employs 20 workers, typical of an institutional-employer economy where large hospitals, plants, schools, and government agencies dominate. Expect many panelists to share an employer rather than work for themselves.

• Democratic 214,757 59.5%
• Republican 145,940 40.5%

• Spanish 41,568 5.8%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 7,814 1.1%
• Chinese 5,034 0.7%
• Arabic 3,358 0.5%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 2,674 0.4%
• German or other West Germanic 2,336 0.3%
• Vietnamese 1,725 0.2%
• Korean 975 0.1%
• Tagalog 960 0.1%

Households

318,428

Family households

185,597

58.3% of households

Married couples w/ children

46,062

24.8% of families

Single-mother families

23,695

12.8% of families

Veterans

29,658

4.9% of civilians 18+

• Catholic 209,584 27.6%
• Evangelical Protestant 64,661 8.5%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 52,491 6.9%
• Mainline Protestant 38,931 5.1%
• Black Protestant 11,482 1.5%
• Orthodox 3,720 0.5%

Health insured

96.9%

±0.2 pp

Uninsured

3.1%

±0.2 pp

57th of 62

With a disability

14.6%

±0.4 pp

37th of 62

Bachelor's or higher

41.5%

±0.7 pp

+1.3 pp vs NY · 11th of 62

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

4.4%

90% interval 4.0%–4.8% · 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

47

7.83 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

45