Onondaga County, New York

• White (non-Hispanic) 347,603 73.8%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 27,930 5.9%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 48,051 10.2%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 19,309 4.1%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 24,407 5.2%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 1,541 0.3%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 103 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 2,185 0.5%

• Under 18 98,554 20.9%
• 18–24 47,444 10.1%
• 25–44 119,197 25.3%
• 45–64 117,948 25.0%
• 65 and over 87,986 18.7%

Median household income

$78,198

90% interval $75,148–$81,248

−$7,570 vs NY · 20th of 62

Below poverty line

12.5%

90% interval 11.0%–14.0%

−1.5 pp vs NY · 38th of 62

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.9%

−0.72 pp vs. state

County GDP

$42.5B

1.83% of state

Avg. annual pay

$73,309

Establishments

12,914

• Education & health services 74,792 29.9%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 56,176 22.4%
• Professional & business services 33,547 13.4%
• Leisure & hospitality 20,595 8.2%
• Manufacturing 20,104 8.0%
• Financial activities 11,253 4.5%
• Public administration 10,807 4.3%
• Construction 10,313 4.1%
• Other services 7,697 3.1%
• Information 2,326 0.9%
• Natural resources & mining 1,096 0.4%
• Unclassified 793 0.3%

Home ownership

65.9%

+11.6 pp vs NY · 49th of 62

Median gross rent

$1,108

−$513 vs NY · 23rd of 62

Owner-occupied

130,389

Renter-occupied

67,371

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 66% 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, $98,372/yr) pays 3.4× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $28,593/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Institutional employer scale

  Average establishment employs 19 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 133,155 58.6%
• Republican 93,916 41.4%

• Spanish 14,295 3.2%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 4,683 1.1%
• Chinese 4,624 1.0%
• Arabic 4,069 0.9%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 2,207 0.5%
• Vietnamese 1,607 0.4%
• German or other West Germanic 1,378 0.3%
• Tagalog 891 0.2%
• Korean 570 0.1%

Households

197,760

Family households

114,972

58.1% of households

Married couples w/ children

28,176

24.5% of families

Single-mother families

12,469

10.8% of families

Veterans

20,619

5.5% of civilians 18+

• Catholic 158,773 33.3%
• Evangelical Protestant 34,817 7.3%
• Mainline Protestant 27,007 5.7%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 20,932 4.4%
• Black Protestant 7,729 1.6%
• Orthodox 2,710 0.6%

Health insured

96.7%

±0.3 pp

Uninsured

3.3%

±0.3 pp

53rd of 62

With a disability

14.0%

±0.4 pp

42nd of 62

Bachelor's or higher

39.2%

±0.8 pp

−1.0 pp vs NY · 14th of 62

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

4.7%

90% interval 4.3%–5.1% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

5th 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

Herkimer, Lowville, Oswego, Syracuse, Utica, Watertown

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

34

9.13 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

33