Tompkins County, New York

• White (non-Hispanic) 77,012 73.7%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 6,886 6.6%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 3,804 3.6%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 10,602 10.1%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 4,869 4.7%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 153 0.1%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 54 0.1%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 1,157 1.1%

• Under 18 14,745 14.1%
• 18–24 28,597 27.4%
• 25–44 23,289 22.3%
• 45–64 20,912 20.0%
• 65 and over 16,994 16.3%

Median household income

$72,326

90% interval $66,287–$78,365

−$13,442 vs NY · 27th of 62

Below poverty line

17.3%

90% interval 15.0%–19.6%

+3.3 pp vs NY · 7th of 62

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.8%

−0.77 pp vs. state

County GDP

$8.0B

0.34% of state

Avg. annual pay

$72,152

Establishments

2,739

• Education & health services 24,084 50.5%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 6,062 12.7%
• Leisure & hospitality 3,991 8.4%
• Professional & business services 3,674 7.7%
• Manufacturing 2,270 4.8%
• Public administration 1,935 4.1%
• Financial activities 1,518 3.2%
• Other services 1,447 3.0%
• Construction 872 1.8%
• Natural resources & mining 753 1.6%
• Information 341 0.7%
• Unclassified 114 0.2%

The sectors listed cover 98.6% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

54.1%

−0.2 pp vs NY · 58th of 62

Median gross rent

$1,411

−$210 vs NY · 14th of 62

Owner-occupied

23,422

Renter-occupied

19,841

• Concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 72% 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 (Professional & business services, $94,680/yr) pays 3.3× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $28,442/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 17 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 34,631 75.3%
• Republican 11,354 24.7%

• Spanish 4,050 4.0%
• Chinese 3,513 3.5%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 1,696 1.7%
• German or other West Germanic 931 0.9%
• Korean 840 0.8%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 794 0.8%
• Arabic 273 0.3%
• Tagalog 66 0.1%
• Vietnamese 57 0.1%

Households

43,263

Family households

21,576

49.9% of households

Married couples w/ children

5,543

25.7% of families

Single-mother families

2,236

10.4% of families

Veterans

3,260

3.6% of civilians 18+

• Evangelical Protestant 9,064 8.6%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 7,985 7.6%
• Catholic 7,256 6.9%
• Mainline Protestant 6,774 6.4%
• Black Protestant 256 0.2%
• Orthodox 200 0.2%

Health insured

95.6%

±0.5 pp

Uninsured

4.4%

±0.5 pp

30th of 62

With a disability

12.0%

±0.7 pp

50th of 62

Bachelor's or higher

58.8%

±2.2 pp

+18.6 pp vs NY · 2nd of 62

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

4.8%

90% interval 4.2%–5.4% · 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

4

4.45 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

4