Otsego County, New York

• White (non-Hispanic) 52,946 88.1%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2,687 4.5%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 1,328 2.2%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 922 1.5%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 1,900 3.2%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 64 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 52 0.1%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 209 0.3%

• Under 18 8,951 14.9%
• 18–24 11,886 19.8%
• 25–44 11,976 19.9%
• 45–64 14,384 23.9%
• 65 and over 12,911 21.5%

Median household income

$67,404

90% interval $61,388–$73,420

−$18,364 vs NY · 47th of 62

Below poverty line

13.7%

90% interval 11.1%–16.3%

−0.3 pp vs NY · 22nd of 62

Unemployment (12-mo)

4.6%

+0.01 pp vs. state

County GDP

$3.5B

0.15% of state

Avg. annual pay

$61,539

Establishments

1,518

• Education & health services 8,335 36.8%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 3,624 16.0%
• Leisure & hospitality 3,222 14.2%
• Financial activities 1,280 5.7%
• Manufacturing 1,211 5.3%
• Public administration 1,056 4.7%
• Professional & business services 974 4.3%
• Other services 504 2.2%
• Construction 455 2.0%
• Natural resources & mining 142 0.6%
• Information 112 0.5%
• Unclassified 73 0.3%

The sectors listed cover 92.7% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

73.9%

+19.6 pp vs NY · 24th of 62

Median gross rent

$987

−$634 vs NY · 31st of 62

Owner-occupied

17,129

Renter-occupied

6,060

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 67% 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, $79,837/yr) pays 2.6× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $30,332/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 15 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 15,256 53.9%
• Democratic 13,031 46.1%

• Spanish 1,190 2.1%
• German or other West Germanic 1,019 1.8%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 265 0.5%
• Chinese 255 0.4%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 149 0.3%
• Tagalog 117 0.2%
• Arabic 43 0.1%

Households

23,189

Family households

14,207

61.3% of households

Married couples w/ children

3,071

21.6% of families

Single-mother families

1,259

8.9% of families

Veterans

3,125

6.1% of civilians 18+

• Mainline Protestant 6,946 11.9%
• Catholic 6,480 11.1%
• Evangelical Protestant 3,112 5.3%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 1,736 3.0%
• Orthodox 45 0.1%

Health insured

94.8%

±0.8 pp

Uninsured

5.2%

±0.8 pp

18th of 62

With a disability

13.7%

±0.9 pp

45th of 62

Bachelor's or higher

34.4%

±1.8 pp

−5.8 pp vs NY · 23rd of 62

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

6.0%

90% interval 5.3%–6.7% · Census SAHIE

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

Trial court

6th Judicial District Supreme Court

Judges

9 (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

Binghamton, Cooperstown, Cortland, Delhi, Elmira, Ithaca, Norwich, Owego, Wampsville, Watkins Glen

This judicial district spans multiple counties.

Traffic fatalities

7

13.68 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

7