Rensselaer County, New York

• White (non-Hispanic) 126,252 78.7%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 9,863 6.2%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 10,426 6.5%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 5,123 3.2%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 7,728 4.8%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 77 0.0%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 19 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 844 0.5%

• Under 18 30,562 19.1%
• 18–24 16,014 10.0%
• 25–44 42,896 26.8%
• 45–64 41,530 25.9%
• 65 and over 29,330 18.3%

Median household income

$83,097

90% interval $76,470–$89,724

−$2,671 vs NY · 14th of 62

Below poverty line

11.2%

90% interval 9.6%–12.8%

−2.8 pp vs NY · 48th of 62

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.8%

−0.78 pp vs. state

County GDP

$15.5B

0.67% of state

Avg. annual pay

$73,962

Establishments

3,423

• Education & health services 16,599 29.5%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 11,458 20.3%
• Manufacturing 6,951 12.3%
• Leisure & hospitality 4,810 8.5%
• Professional & business services 3,712 6.6%
• Construction 3,016 5.4%
• Public administration 2,745 4.9%
• Other services 1,798 3.2%
• Financial activities 1,658 2.9%
• Natural resources & mining 706 1.3%
• Information 467 0.8%
• Unclassified 176 0.3%

The sectors listed cover 96.1% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

64.8%

+10.5 pp vs NY · 51st of 62

Median gross rent

$1,217

−$404 vs NY · 18th of 62

Owner-occupied

43,190

Renter-occupied

23,496

• Moderately concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 62% of the county workforce. Substantial intra-sector overlap among panelists is likely; confirm employer relationships before sector-specific framing.

• Wide wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Manufacturing, $115,467/yr) pays 4.1× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $28,392/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 16 workers, a mix of institutional employers and small businesses. Both employed-by-large-institution and small-business-owner perspectives are likely on the panel.

• Democratic 39,668 50.7%
• Republican 38,601 49.3%

• Spanish 4,344 2.8%
• Chinese 908 0.6%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 694 0.5%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 651 0.4%
• Arabic 438 0.3%
• German or other West Germanic 361 0.2%
• Tagalog 203 0.1%
• Korean 179 0.1%
• Vietnamese 70 0.0%

Households

66,686

Family households

38,830

58.2% of households

Married couples w/ children

9,337

24.0% of families

Single-mother families

4,534

11.7% of families

Veterans

7,810

6% of civilians 18+

• Catholic 32,401 20.1%
• Mainline Protestant 7,764 4.8%
• Evangelical Protestant 5,423 3.4%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 1,524 0.9%
• Black Protestant 1,300 0.8%
• Orthodox 485 0.3%

Health insured

96.6%

±0.3 pp

Uninsured

3.4%

±0.3 pp

51st of 62

With a disability

14.6%

±0.9 pp

38th of 62

Bachelor's or higher

37.6%

±1.5 pp

−2.6 pp vs NY · 18th of 62

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

4.4%

90% interval 3.9%–4.9% · 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

13

10.02 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

12