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Total population: 138,068 (All urban)

Syracuse, New York Age and Sex of Residents

Houses: 68,196 (59,486 occupied: 23,987 owner occupied, 35,499 renter occupied)

% of renters here:	60%
State:	47%

Housing density: 2718 houses/condos per square mile

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Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses and condos in 2007 in this state: $386,378.

Median contract rent in 2007: $526 (lower quartile is $414, upper quartile is $627)

Housing units in Syracuse with a mortgage: 12,637 (997 second mortgage, 1,273 home equity loan, 25 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 7,345

Syracuse,NY index of house prices

Estimated median house or condo value in 2007: $81,300 (it was $67,900 in 2000)

Syracuse:	$81,300
New York:	$311,000

Lower value quartile - upper value quartile: $63,200 - $113,000

Median year house/condo built: 1939

Median year apartment built: 1947

Household type by relationship

Households: 136,277

In family households: 99,021 (16,461 male householders, 14,256 female householders)
17,274 spouses, 40,796 children (38,645 natural, 914 adopted, 1,237 stepchildren), 2,816 grandchildren, 1,299 brothers or sisters, 719 parents, 1,601 other relatives, 3,799 non-relatives
In nonfamily households: 37,256 (13,357 male householders (10,114 living alone)), 15,494 female householders (12,621 living alone)), 8,405 nonrelatives
In group quarters: 11,049 (2,399 institutionalized population)

Size of family households: 11,982 2-persons, 7,828 3-persons, 5,677 4-persons, 2,986 5-persons, 1,419 6-persons, 825 7-or-more-persons.

Size of nonfamily households: 22,735 1-person, 4,812 2-persons, 825 3-persons, 281 4-persons, 120 5-persons, 45 6-persons, 33 7-or-more-persons.

14,229 married couples with children.
18,213 single-parent households (2,347 men, 15,866 women).

86.8% of residents of Syracuse speak English at home.
4.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (60% speak English very well, 20% speak English well, 14% speak English not well, 6% don't speak English at all).
4.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (63% speak English very well, 23% speak English well, 12% speak English not well, 3% don't speak English at all).
2.9% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (33% speak English very well, 39% speak English well, 24% speak English not well, 4% don't speak English at all).
0.7% of residents speak other language at home (77% speak English very well, 15% speak English well, 8% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).

Foreign born population: 11,214 (7.6%)
(37.2% of them are naturalized citizens)

Median number of rooms in houses and condos:

Here:	6.4
State:	6.3

Median number of rooms in apartments:

Here:	4.1
State:	3.6

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Rooms in owner-occupied houses in Syracuse, New York:
	1 room: 0 2 rooms: 43 3 rooms: 404 4 rooms: 915 5 rooms: 3,598 6 rooms: 7,404 7 rooms: 5,240 8 rooms: 3,290 9 or more rooms: 3,093

Rooms in renter-occupied apartments in Syracuse, New York:
	1 room: 2,235 2 rooms: 2,841 3 rooms: 8,351 4 rooms: 7,124 5 rooms: 6,402 6 rooms: 4,994 7 rooms: 2,014 8 rooms: 919 9 or more rooms: 619

Year house built:

1999 to March 2000: 102
1995 to 1998: 585
1990 to 1994: 948
1980 to 1989: 2,549
1970 to 1979: 5,697
1960 to 1969: 7,419
1950 to 1959: 9,978
1940 to 1949: 8,154
1939 or earlier: 32,764

Bedrooms in owner-occupied houses and condos in Syracuse:
	no bedroom: 33 1 bedroom: 513 2 bedrooms: 4,175 3 bedrooms: 12,599 4 bedrooms: 5,145 5 or more bedrooms: 1,522

Bedrooms in renter-occupied apartments in Syracuse:
	no bedroom: 2,667 1 bedroom: 11,169 2 bedrooms: 11,923 3 bedrooms: 7,516 4 bedrooms: 1,714 5 or more bedrooms: 510

Owners and renters by unit type in %

Breakdown of mean house values by ages of householders

Cars and other vehicles available in Syracuse in owner-occupied houses/condos:
	no vehicle: 2,252 1 vehicle: 10,209 2 vehicles: 9,168 3 vehicles: 2,003 4 vehicles: 310 5 or more vehicles: 45

Cars and other vehicles available in Syracuse in n renter-occupied apartments
	no vehicle: 13,545 1 vehicle: 16,000 2 vehicles: 4,928 3 vehicles: 754 4 vehicles: 184 5 or more vehicles: 88

Estimate of home value of owner-occupied houses in 2007 in Syracuse, NY:

Less than $10,000: 96
$10,000 to $14,999: 51
$15,000 to $19,999: 85
$20,000 to $24,999: 149
$25,000 to $29,999: 217
$30,000 to $34,999: 331
$35,000 to $39,999: 505
$40,000 to $49,999: 1222
$50,000 to $59,999: 1747
$60,000 to $69,999: 2879
$70,000 to $79,999: 3397
$80,000 to $89,999: 3208
$90,000 to $99,999: 2589
$100,000 to $124,999: 3329
$125,000 to $149,999: 1203
$150,000 to $174,999: 517
$175,000 to $199,999: 247
$200,000 to $249,999: 315
$250,000 to $299,999: 130
$300,000 to $399,999: 55
$400,000 to $499,999: 16
$500,000 to $749,999: 8
$750,000 to $999,999: 3
$1,000,000 or more: 10

Syracuse rent paid by renters for apartments graph

Rent paid by renters in 2007 in Syracuse:

Less than $100: 453 people
$100 to $149: 463
$150 to $199: 824
$200 to $249: 1,145
$250 to $299: 942
$300 to $349: 1,064
$350 to $399: 2,048
$400 to $449: 2,929
$450 to $499: 3,523
$500 to $549: 3,887
$550 to $599: 3,209
$600 to $649: 2,842
$650 to $699: 2,261
$700 to $749: 1,643
$750 to $799: 1,132
$800 to $899: 1,164
$900 to $999: 543
$1,000 to $1,249: 558
$1,250 to $1,499: 167
$1,500 to $1,999: 30
$2,000 or more: 29
No cash rent: 1,077

Year of entry for the foreign-born population
	1995 to March 2000: 4,708 1990 to 1994: 1,816 1985 to 1989: 1,022 1980 to 1984: 713 1975 to 1979: 389 1970 to 1974: 419 1970 to 1974: 328 1965 to 1969: 1,819

Syracuse, NY Time Leaving Home for Work

Percentage of workers working in this county: 96.6%
Number of people working at home: 1,205 (2.0% of all workers)

Travel time to work

Less than 5 minutes: 2186
5 to 9 minutes: 9199
10 to 14 minutes: 16117
15 to 19 minutes: 13860
20 to 24 minutes: 7330
25 to 29 minutes: 1646
30 to 34 minutes: 3151
35 to 39 minutes: 404
40 to 44 minutes: 489
45 to 59 minutes: 1303
60 to 89 minutes: 1463
90 or more minutes: 688

Syracuse mode of transportation to work chart

Means of transportation to work

Drove a car alone: 38,936 (66%)
Carpooled: 8,114 (14%)
Bus or trolley bus: 4,020 (7%)
Streetcar or trolley car: 9 (0%)
Subway or elevated: 8 (0%)
Taxi: 111 (0%)
Motorcycle: 24 (0%)
Bicycle: 348 (1%)
Walked: 5,960 (10%)
Other means: 306 (1%)
Worked at home: 1,205 (2%)

Household income:

Less than $10,000: 12718
$10,000 to $14,999: 6288
$15,000 to $19,999: 5523
$20,000 to $24,999: 5255
$25,000 to $29,999: 4154
$30,000 to $34,999: 3803
$35,000 to $39,999: 3092
$40,000 to $44,999: 2962
$45,000 to $49,999: 2297
$50,000 to $59,999: 3372
$60,000 to $74,999: 3823
$75,000 to $99,999: 3315
$100,000 to $124,999: 1512
$125,000 to $149,999: 515
$150,000 to $199,999: 400
$200,000 or more: 539

First ancestries reported:

Other groups: 44528

Italian: 17797

Irish: 15529

German: 10462

English: 6514

Polish: 5341

United States or American: 3489

French (except Basque): 3060

Subsaharan African:: 2031

French Canadian: 1816

African: 1649

Scottish: 1296

Scotch-Irish: 1262

Russian: 1062

West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups):: 1057

Ukrainian: 1019

Dutch: 913

Arab:: 813

European: 706

Jamaican: 628

Yugoslavian: 626

Swedish: 512

British: 505

Greek: 487

Welsh: 398

Hungarian: 370

Arab/Arabic: 350

Canadian: 338

Norwegian: 299

Austrian: 290

Turkish: 241

Lebanese: 231

Portuguese: 187

Slovak: 183

Armenian: 163

West Indian: 163

Albanian: 156

Lithuanian: 155

Swiss: 152

Haitian: 134

Danish: 122

Czech: 114

Eastern European: 113

Macedonian: 113

Romanian: 107

Northern European: 107

Liberian: 92

Croatian: 91

Celtic: 85

Czechoslovakian: 78

Other Subsaharan African: 74

Syrian: 71

Latvian: 69

Bulgarian: 65

Kenyan: 60

Iranian: 56

Egyptian: 55

Scandinavian: 53

Trinidadian and Tobagonian: 51

British West Indian: 50

Finnish: 49

Other Arab: 46

Brazilian: 44

Ethiopian: 42

Slavic: 39

Israeli: 37

Palestinian: 36

Slovene: 35

Belgian: 33

Cape Verdean: 28

Nigerian: 25

Somalian: 25

Barbadian: 25

Guyanese: 21

Jordanian: 18

Ghanian: 17

Cypriot: 11

Australian: 11

Zairian: 9

Acadian/Cajun: 8

New Zealander: 7

Alsatian: 7

Bahamian: 6

Pennsylvania German: 6

Sierra Leonean: 6

Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac: 6

Iraqi: 6

South African: 4

Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents (%):

Vietnam (11%)
Italy (7%)
Bosnia and Herzegovina (5%)
Canada (5%)
China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (4%)
Korea (4%)
India (4%)

Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:

This state: 105555
Northeast: 9557
Midwest: 3943
South: 12170
West: 1964

46% of Syracuse residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 67% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 53% lived in New York.

Education attainment for males 25 years and older:

No schooling: 344
Nursery to 4th grade: 204
5th and 6th grade: 606
7th and 8th grade: 1,371
9th grade: 1,265
10th grade: 1,796
11th grade: 1,647
12th grade, no diploma: 1,727
High school graduate (or equivalency): 11,216
Less than 1 year of college: 2,251
Some college more than 1 year, no degree: 4,513
Associate degree: 2,455
Bachelor's degree: 5,209
Master's degree: 2,732
Professional school degree: 1,061
Doctorate degree: 744

Educational Attainment for Males

Education attainment for females 25 years and older:

No schooling: 614
Nursery to 4th grade: 201
5th and 6th grade: 699
7th and 8th grade: 2,051
9th grade: 1,709
10th grade: 2,045
11th grade: 2,279
12th grade, no diploma: 1,950
High school graduate (or equivalency): 13,786
Less than 1 year of college: 2,712
Some college more than 1 year, no degree: 4,694
Associate degree: 3,939
Bachelor's degree: 5,399
Master's degree: 3,583
Professional school degree: 806
Doctorate degree: 476

Educational Attainment for Females

Class of Workers

Unemployment rate for White non-Hispanic males: 7.5%
Unemployment rate for White non-Hispanic females: 6.4%

Unemployment rate for Black males: 18.5%
Unemployment rate for Black females: 13.1%

Unemployment rate for American Indian and Alaska Native males: 7.1%
Unemployment rate for American Indian and Alaska Native females: 10.7%

Unemployment rate for Asian males: 6.8%
Unemployment rate for Asian females: 11.5%

Unemployment rate for other race males: 19.9%
Unemployment rate for other race females: 9.0%

Unemployment rate for two or more race males: 11.5%
Unemployment rate for two or more race females: 11.6%

Unemployment rate for Hispanic or Latino males: 21.6%
Unemployment rate for Hispanic or Latino females: 11.8%

Median household income in 2007 for:

White non-Hispanic householders: $33,238
Black householders: $22,706
American Indian and Alaska Native householders: $17,157
Asian householders: $25,844
Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander householders: $46,317
Some other race householders: $14,161
Two or more races householders: $26,782
Hispanic or Latino race householders: $31,007

Syracuse household income for White non-Hispanic householders

Syracuse household income for Black householders

Syracuse household income for American Indian and Alaska Native householders

Syracuse household income for Asian householders

Syracuse household income for Some other race householders

Syracuse household income for Hispanic or Latino race householders

Syracuse marital status for males

Syracuse marital status for females

Median 2007 house value for:

White Non-Hispanic householders: $83,455
Black or African American householders: $73,636
American Indian or Alaska Native householders: $64,896
Asian householders: $82,257
Some other race householders: $78,186
Two or more races householders: $74,115
Hispanic or Latino householders: $76,869

Housing units in structures:

One, detached: 25,987
One, attached: 1,811
Two: 13,821
3 or 4: 6,979
5 to 9: 5,268
10 to 19: 4,060
20 to 49: 3,472
50 or more: 6,750
Mobile homes: 48

Median worth of mobile homes: $44,527

Housing units lacking complete plumbing facilities: 1%

Housing units lacking complete kitchen facilities: 2%

Year Householders Moved Into Unit in Syracuse:

Most commonly used house heating fuel in houses and condos:
	Utility gas (95%) Electricity (3%) Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%) Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)

Most commonly used house heating fuel in apartments:
	Utility gas (68%) Electricity (27%) Other fuel (2%) Bottled, tank, or LP gas (2%) No fuel used (1%) Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)

Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 2,103

Here:	12.0%
New York:	14.0%

Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 747

Here:	10.3%
New York:	13.2%

Students in private undergraduate colleges: 11,647

Here:	72.3%
New York:	38.2%

School Enrollment by Level of School for Male Students

School Enrollment by Level of School for Female Students

Age and Sex of Sensory-Disabled Residents (Noninstitutionalized)

Age and Sex of Physically-Disabled Residents (Noninstitutionalized)

Age and Sex of Mentally-Disabled Residents (Noninstitutionalized)

Age and Sex of Self-Care Disabled Residents (Noninstitutionalized)

Age and Sex of Go-Outside-Home Disabled Residents (Noninstitutionalized)

Age and Sex of Residents with Employment Disability (Noninst.)

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