Rochester, NY (New York) Houses and Residents
| Rochester: | $82,400 |
| New York: | $314,500 |
Mean price in 2017:
Detached houses: $100,992
Here: $100,992 State: $368,248 Townhouses or other attached units: $222,784
Here: $222,784 State: $609,493 In 2-unit structures: $155,344
Here: $155,344 State: $607,011 In 3-to-4-unit structures: $274,453
Here: $274,453 State: $737,380 In 5-or-more-unit structures: $157,882
Here: $157,882 State: $879,902
Total population: 209,983 (All urban)
Houses: 104,723 (90,303 occupied: 34,279 owner occupied, 56,024 renter occupied)
| % of renters here: | 62% |
| State: | 46% |
Housing density: 2,922 houses/condos per square mile
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses and condos in 2017: $248,055.
Median contract rent in 2017: $473 (lower quartile is $380, upper quartile is $571)
Median rent asked for vacant for-rent units in 2017: $705
Median gross rent in Rochester, NY in 2017: $553
Housing units in Rochester with a mortgage: 21,305 (278 second mortgage, 2,812 home equity loan, 46 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 12,974
Median household income for houses/condos with a mortgage: $61,875
Median household income for apartments without a mortgage: $45,628
Median monthly housing costs: $818
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Median year apartment built: 1943
Household type by relationship:
Households: 208,049- In family households: 138,336 (13,958 male householders, 29,064 female householders)
17,710 spouses, 59,540 children (58,269 natural, 530 adopted, 741 stepchildren), 5,114 grandchildren, 2,981 brothers or sisters, 1,918 parents, 3,214 other relatives, 4,837 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 59,871 (25,009 male householders (19,423 living alone)), 22,272 female householders (18,134 living alone)), 12,590 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 9,842
Size of family households: 18,919 2-persons, 10,475 3-persons, 7,955 4-persons, 2,759 5-persons, 2,034 6-persons, 880 7-or-more-persons.
Size of nonfamily households: 37,557 1-person, 8,488 2-persons, 744 3-persons, 374 4-persons, 118 5-persons.
9,680 married couples with children.
28,197 single-parent households (2,156 men, 26,041 women).
79.7% of residents of Rochester speak English at home.
12.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (53% speak English very well, 25% speak English well, 16% speak English not well, 7% don't speak English at all).
3.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (48% speak English very well, 25% speak English well, 25% speak English not well, 2% don't speak English at all).
2.8% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (41% speak English very well, 21% speak English well, 29% speak English not well, 10% don't speak English at all).
1.6% of residents speak other language at home (49% speak English very well, 14% speak English well, 30% speak English not well, 7% don't speak English at all).
Foreign born population: 21,014 (10.1%)
(42.8% of them are naturalized citizens)
Median number of rooms in houses and condos:
| Here: | 6.4 |
| State: | 6.4 |
Median number of rooms in apartments
| Here: | 4.2 |
| State: | 3.8 |
Owner-occupied
Renter-occupied
- Bedrooms in owner-occupied houses and condos in Rochester, New York
- 51no bedroom
- 1,2161 bedroom
- 6,6802 bedrooms
- 18,0013 bedrooms
- 6,9674 bedrooms
- 1,3645+ bedrooms
- Bedrooms in renter-occupied apartments in Rochester, New York
- 4,557no bedroom
- 18,9601 bedroom
- 15,3452 bedrooms
- 13,0203 bedrooms
- 3,7184 bedrooms
- 4245+ bedrooms
Owner-occupied
Renter-occupied
- Cars and other vehicles available in Rochester in owner-occupied houses/condos
- 1,835no vehicle
- 14,6531 vehicle
- 12,5832 vehicles
- 3,3023 vehicles
- 1,5584 vehicles
- 3485+ vehicles
- Cars and other vehicles available in Rochester in renter-occupied apartments
- 20,092no vehicle
- 25,6621 vehicle
- 8,4852 vehicles
- 1,1883 vehicles
- 3724 vehicles
- 2255+ vehicles
Owner-occupied
Renter-occupied
- Rooms in owner-occupied houses in Rochester, New York
- 01 room
- 762 rooms
- 4023 rooms
- 3,0724 rooms
- 5,1895 rooms
- 9,7766 rooms
- 7,1507 rooms
- 4,7918 rooms
- 3,8239+ rooms
- Rooms in renter-occupied apartments in Rochester, New York
- 3,0151 room
- 4,2762 rooms
- 13,1713 rooms
- 11,2474 rooms
- 9,2315 rooms
- 8,8646 rooms
- 3,3307 rooms
- 2,0158 rooms
- 8759+ rooms
Rochester, NY household income distribution
- 13,907Less than $10,000
- 16,017$10,000 to $19,999
- 10,914$20,000 to $29,999
- 9,291$30,000 to $39,999
- 7,700$40,000 to $49,999
- 7,458$50,000 to $59,999
- 7,048$60,000 to $74,999
- 7,014$75,000 to $99,999
- 4,724$100,000 to $124,999
- 2,334$125,000 to $149,999
- 1,507$150,000 to $199,999
- 2,389$200,000 or more
Home value of owner - occupied houses in 2017 in Rochester, NY
-
- 141Less than $10,000
- 64$10,000 to $14,999
- 285$15,000 to $19,999
- 581$20,000 to $24,999
- 968$25,000 to $29,999
- 1,256$30,000 to $34,999
- 527$35,000 to $39,999
- 2,497$40,000 to $49,999
- 2,559$50,000 to $59,999
- 5,111$60,000 to $69,999
- 2,595$70,000 to $79,999
- 2,356$80,000 to $89,999
- 3,621$90,000 to $99,999
- 3,775$100,000 to $124,999
- 1,735$125,000 to $149,999
- 2,109$150,000 to $174,999
- 345$175,000 to $199,999
- 1,111$200,000 to $249,999
- 748$250,000 to $299,999
- 716$300,000 to $399,999
- 470$400,000 to $499,999
- 336$500,000 to $749,999
- 288$750,000 to $999,999
- 85$1,000,000 to $1,499,999
Rent paid by renters in 2017 in Rochester, NY
-
- 230Less than $100
- 130$100 to $149
- 311$150 to $199
- 2,659$200 to $249
- 1,188$250 to $299
- 688$300 to $349
- 1,679$350 to $399
- 1,781$400 to $449
- 2,448$450 to $499
- 3,261$500 to $549
- 3,642$550 to $599
- 5,134$600 to $649
- 3,979$650 to $699
- 4,381$700 to $749
- 5,034$750 to $799
- 8,783$800 to $899
- 3,121$900 to $999
- 4,317$1,000 to $1,249
- 1,040$1,250 to $1,499
- 984$1,500 to $1,999
- 328$2,000 to $2,499
- 33$2,500 to $2,999
- 88$3,000 to $3,499
- 97$3,500 or more
- 688No cash rent
Percentage of workers working in this county: 95.4%
Number of people working at home: 3,653 (4.0% of all workers)
Travel time to work (commute)
- Less than 5 minutes: 3,098
- 5 to 9 minutes: 9,149
- 10 to 14 minutes: 16,257
- 15 to 19 minutes: 20,433
- 20 to 24 minutes: 14,611
- 25 to 29 minutes: 5,483
- 30 to 34 minutes: 10,572
- 35 to 39 minutes: 702
- 40 to 44 minutes: 968
- 45 to 59 minutes: 2,768
- 60 to 89 minutes: 2,232
- 90 or more minutes: 1,095
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 122,277 (81%)
- Carpooled: 12,051 (8%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 4,516 (3%)
- Subway or elevated: 19 (0%)
- Railroad: 70 (0%)
- Taxi: 1,810 (1%)
- Bicycle: 1,113 (1%)
- Walked: 5,325 (4%)
- Worked at home: 3,653 (2%)
- Unemployment by race in 2017
- Unemployment rate for White non-Hispanic residents
- 5.3%Males
- 5.0%Females
- Unemployment rate for Black residents
- 14.0%Males
- 15.6%Females
- Unemployment rate for American Indian and Alaska Native residents
- 9.7%Males
- 13.0%Females
- Unemployment rate for Asian residents
- 7.0%Males
- 8.0%Females
- Unemployment rate for other race residents
- 6.8%Males
- 15.1%Females
- Unemployment rate for two or more race residents
- 18.7%Males
- 16.7%Females
- Unemployment rate for Hispanic or Latino residents
- 15.4%Males
- 12.2%Females
- Year of entry for the foreign-born population in Rochester, New York
- 8,1712010 or later
- 3,9182000 to 2009
- 2,6371990 to 1999
- 3,8291980 to 1989
- 1,7791970 to 1979
- 2,882Before 1970
First ancestries reported:
- Italian: 6,549 (5.1%)
- Irish: 4,042 (3.1%)
- American: 3,777 (2.9%)
- German: 3,270 (2.5%)
- English: 2,297 (1.8%)
- Jamaican: 2,184 (1.7%)
- African: 2,047 (1.6%)
- Polish: 1,382 (1.1%)
- European: 1,346 (1.0%)
- French: 821 (0.6%)
- Ukrainian: 663 (0.5%)
- Haitian: 640 (0.5%)
- Somali: 509 (0.4%)
- Dutch: 451 (0.4%)
- Russian: 411 (0.3%)
- Scottish: 403 (0.3%)
- Greek: 343 (0.3%)
- Ethiopian: 329 (0.3%)
- Liberian: 327 (0.3%)
- French Canadian: 309 (0.2%)
- Scotch-Irish: 249 (0.2%)
- Nigerian: 243 (0.2%)
- Guyanese: 242 (0.2%)
- West Indian: 235 (0.2%)
- Eastern European: 228 (0.2%)
- Trinidadian and Tobagonian: 208 (0.2%)
- Norwegian: 189 (0.1%)
- Turkish: 148 (0.1%)
- Barbadian: 142 (0.1%)
- Lebanese: 132 (0.1%)
- British: 131 (0.1%)
- Arab: 129 (0.1%)
- Yugoslavian: 121 (0.09%)
- British West Indian: 121 (0.09%)
- Swedish: 107 (0.08%)
- Canadian: 91 (0.07%)
- Danish: 89 (0.07%)
- Northern European: 87 (0.07%)
- Iranian: 81 (0.06%)
- Portuguese: 80 (0.06%)
- Welsh: 76 (0.06%)
- Albanian: 73 (0.06%)
- Moroccan: 73 (0.06%)
- Belgian: 72 (0.06%)
- Hungarian: 72 (0.06%)
- Macedonian: 69 (0.05%)
- Scandinavian: 66 (0.05%)
- Belizean: 66 (0.05%)
- Sudanese: 57 (0.04%)
- Romanian: 56 (0.04%)
- Lithuanian: 51 (0.04%)
- Czechoslovakian: 43 (0.03%)
- Swiss: 40 (0.03%)
- Croatian: 36 (0.03%)
- Czech: 36 (0.03%)
- Australian: 34 (0.03%)
- Syrian: 32 (0.02%)
- Kenyan: 32 (0.02%)
- Ghanaian: 27 (0.02%)
- Finnish: 26 (0.02%)
- Egyptian: 23 (0.02%)
- Armenian: 23 (0.02%)
- New Zealander: 22 (0.02%)
- Slavic: 21 (0.02%)
- Brazilian: 21 (0.02%)
- Israeli: 20 (0.02%)
- Slovak: 17 (0.01%)
- Austrian: 15 (0.01%)
- Bahamian: 11 (0.01%)
- Pennsylvania German: 11 (0.01%)
- Latvian: 10 (0.01%)
- Bulgarian: 8 (0.01%)
- Slovene: 7 (0.01%)
- Bermudan: 7 (0.01%)
Most common places of birth for foreign-born residents (%):
Jamaica
| Rochester: | 10.8% (1,987) |
| New York: | 5.3% (236,229) |
Cuba
| Rochester: | 7.6% (1,405) |
| New York: | 0.6% (26,057) |
Other South Central Asia
| Rochester: | 6.2% (1,136) |
| New York: | 0.2% (8,626) |
China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan
| Rochester: | 6.1% (1,127) |
| New York: | 8.9% (401,276) |
Dominican Republic
| Rochester: | 5.9% (1,088) |
| New York: | 11.0% (494,465) |
Nepal
| Rochester: | 3.5% (642) |
| New York: | 0.3% (12,279) |
Vietnam
| Rochester: | 2.6% (485) |
| New York: | 0.5% (24,533) |
Canada
| Rochester: | 2.6% (473) |
| New York: | 1.3% (56,143) |
Yemen
| Rochester: | 2.4% (441) |
| New York: | 0.3% (15,264) |
Korea
| Rochester: | 2.4% (434) |
| New York: | 2.1% (94,619) |
Thailand
| Rochester: | 2.3% (419) |
| New York: | 0.3% (12,823) |
Ethiopia
| Rochester: | 2.2% (402) |
| New York: | 0.1% (5,654) |
Haiti
| Rochester: | 2.1% (394) |
| New York: | 2.9% (131,215) |
Laos
| Rochester: | 2.1% (388) |
| New York: | 0.1% (2,318) |
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 135,720
- Other state: 37,203
- Northeast: 8,754
- Midwest: 5,960
- South: 18,592
- West: 3,897
78.0% of Rochester residents lived in the same house 1 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 41.8% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 46.1% lived in New York.
| Rochester: | 78.0% |
| State average: | 89.4% |
Education attainment for males 25 years and older:
- No schooling: 1,093
- Nursery to 4th grade: 560
- 5th and 6th grade: 540
- 7th and 8th grade: 1,139
- 9th grade: 1,907
- 10th grade: 2,396
- 11th grade: 3,221
- 12th grade, no diploma: 1,404
- High school graduate (or equivalency): 20,371
- Less than 1 year of college: 4,228
- Some college more than 1 year, no degree: 7,000
- Associate degree: 5,668
- Bachelor's degree: 10,885
- Master's degree: 4,079
- Professional school degree: 1,082
- Doctorate degree: 674
Education attainment for females 25 years and older:
- No schooling: 1,726
- Nursery to 4th grade: 1,186
- 5th and 6th grade: 488
- 7th and 8th grade: 1,807
- 9th grade: 2,454
- 10th grade: 1,958
- 11th grade: 4,106
- 12th grade, no diploma: 1,395
- High school graduate (or equivalency): 17,771
- Less than 1 year of college: 3,984
- Some college more than 1 year, no degree: 8,671
- Associate degree: 9,035
- Bachelor's degree: 10,155
- Master's degree: 7,013
- Professional school degree: 1,231
- Doctorate degree: 952
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 47,369
- One, attached: 6,602
- Two: 17,304
- 3 or 4: 9,748
- 5 to 9: 6,220
- 10 to 19: 3,166
- 20 to 49: 4,206
- 50 or more: 9,689
- Mobile homes: 419
Median worth of mobile homes: $188,875
Housing units lacking complete kitchen facilities in 2017: 2.9%
House/condo owner moved in on average 13 years ago
Renter moved in on average 1 years ago
Houses and condos
Apartments
- 88.3%Utility gas
- 6.4%Electricity
- 2.1%Fuel oil, kerosene, etc.
- 1.4%Wood
- 0.8%No fuel used
- 0.6%Bottled, tank, or LP gas
- 0.4%Other fuel
- 73.5%Utility gas
- 20.7%Electricity
- 2.0%Bottled, tank, or LP gas
- 1.6%Other fuel
- 1.4%Fuel oil, kerosene, etc.
- 0.7%No fuel used
- 0.1%Coal or coke
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 1,237
| Here: | 6.4% |
| New York: | 13.3% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 1,430
| Here: | 14.4% |
| New York: | 13.7% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 6,170
| Here: | 45.6% |
| New York: | 33.9% |
