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New York: county data, all 62 of them.

Every New York county has a data page built from federal sources, each figure carrying its publisher and period. What this page does not carry is the New York statutory framework, and the reason is below rather than hidden.

Counties
62
Population
19,852,366
Land area
47,127 sq mi
Establishments
540,165
Combined county GDP
$2322.14 bn
SBA approvals recorded
28,080

Read this first

This is a county directory, not a state guide.

The county pages below are complete. They carry demographics, growth and migration, economic output, employment and wages, business establishments by industry, the construction pipeline, the SBA lending record including charge off rates, geography and hazard. Every figure names its publisher and the period it describes.

What is missing is the New York legal and regulatory frame: how zoning and land development codes work in this state, what the entitlement path looks like, which agencies permit what, and which statutes override local codes. That material requires a research pack for New York, and no such pack exists yet.

Why there is no state guide here

You cannot write New York zoning law from a population table. Everything on the county pages is derived from federal datasets that cover all counties equally; statutory analysis is not, and generating it anyway would produce confident text about the law that nothing behind it supports.

Florida and California have research packs and therefore have full state guides. The remaining eight, including this one, do not. That is stated rather than papered over.

Counties

All 62 New York county-equivalents.

New York counties: population, income, establishments and SBA activity
GeographyPopulationMedian incomeEstablishmentsCounty GDPSBA approvalsLand area, sq mi
Albany County317,018$85,3339,465$46.13 bn404523
Allegany County47,159$62,869731$1.95 bn421,029
Bronx County1,404,779$48,67618,674$58.32 bn71042
Broome County197,378$62,6164,001$12.16 bn168706
Cattaraugus County76,145$59,5401,501$3.92 bn1011,308
Cayuga County75,102$67,9041,509$4.06 bn63692
Chautauqua County125,544$58,3512,695$6.28 bn1321,060
Chemung County82,147$63,7161,647$4.77 bn96407
Chenango County46,321$62,948857$3.07 bn26894
Clinton County78,493$71,2241,701$4.93 bn781,038
Columbia County61,100$81,5281,819$3.46 bn100635
Cortland County46,246$70,418981$2.37 bn39499
Delaware County44,487$63,3371,114$3.12 bn291,442
Dutchess County298,220$99,4787,677$20.30 bn393796
Erie County950,622$72,83922,497$81.13 bn1,4461,043
Essex County36,973$71,6611,186$2.34 bn601,794
Franklin County46,696$65,151922$2.71 bn241,629
Fulton County52,487$66,5331,119$2.45 bn44495
Genesee County57,787$73,3141,255$3.49 bn126493
Greene County47,409$77,9451,203$3.66 bn57647
Hamilton County5,089$68,835188$297.4 m91,717
Herkimer County59,757$68,5151,124$2.36 bn721,411
Jefferson County115,040$66,3012,348$8.28 bn961,269
Kings County2,631,580$80,26362,317$145.93 bn3,84371
Lewis County26,607$68,182506$1.66 bn231,275
Livingston County61,498$74,0011,202$3.09 bn128632
Madison County67,328$75,4991,328$3.09 bn50655
Monroe County753,753$76,38217,484$65.11 bn1,429657
Montgomery County49,528$64,9431,064$2.63 bn28403
Nassau County1,389,591$146,20248,718$130.22 bn2,348285
New York County1,629,477$103,93193,904$1006.67 bn2,81123
Niagara County210,721$69,6334,475$13.57 bn240522
Oneida County229,124$70,1544,713$14.68 bn2211,212
Onondaga County471,129$76,94511,166$42.50 bn668778
Ontario County112,625$82,3242,895$8.92 bn206644
Orange County406,616$97,17810,467$27.75 bn1,019812
Orleans County39,608$65,969662$1.87 bn70391
Oswego County117,953$69,1832,093$9.26 bn105952
Otsego County60,108$68,8851,295$3.52 bn421,002
Putnam County98,107$126,2572,868$5.49 bn153230
Queens County2,323,052$86,13651,188$143.13 bn2,285109
Rensselaer County160,332$87,9152,985$15.51 bn174652
Richmond County494,956$98,3339,684$23.78 bn50458
Rockland County341,883$109,95911,094$24.44 bn1,338174
Saratoga County238,284$100,7875,488$16.62 bn417810
Schenectady County160,369$79,6232,911$12.31 bn150205
Schoharie County30,049$70,133576$1.32 bn21622
Schuyler County17,562$67,663385$709.1 m20328
Seneca County32,920$68,089689$2.06 bn42324
St. Lawrence County107,226$62,8501,826$6.59 bn392,680
Steuben County92,588$65,8871,749$5.79 bn1131,391
Suffolk County1,530,146$130,68650,748$139.01 bn2,899912
Sullivan County79,721$72,3822,061$4.50 bn145968
Tioga County47,864$72,739743$2.02 bn42519
Tompkins County104,537$74,0242,230$7.97 bn80475
Ulster County182,601$86,2715,065$10.45 bn2591,124
Warren County65,517$78,4422,164$6.77 bn175867
Washington County60,522$73,4951,065$2.64 bn68831
Wayne County90,929$74,5061,673$5.13 bn128604
Westchester County999,677$118,97631,174$120.15 bn1,362430
Wyoming County39,753$69,110754$2.37 bn97593
Yates County24,526$69,701542$1.34 bn23338

The register

Every source behind these 62 pages.

SourcePeriod coveredLicence
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates2020-2024 5-yearUS Census Bureau, public domain
US Census Bureau, Population Estimates Program, Vintage 2024Vintage 2024, estimates 2020 to 2024US Census Bureau, public domain
US Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional, table CAGDP2CAGDP2, through 2024US Bureau of Economic Analysis, public domain
US EPA, Map of Radon Zones, county spreadsheet2024-05 publication, EPA 402/A-16/001US EPA, public domain
FEMA OpenFEMA, NFIP Community Status BookCommunity Status Book, as retrievedFEMA OpenFEMA, public domain
US Small Business Administration, 7(a) FOIA releaseFY2020 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30FOIA release, public domain
US Small Business Administration, 504 FOIA releaseFY2010 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30FOIA release, public domain
US Census Bureau county boundary geometry, TIGER, adjacency computed from shared boundary verticesTIGER county boundariesUS Census Bureau, public domain
US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns2023US Census Bureau, public domain
US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages2024 annual averagesUS BLS, public domain
US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey2024 annualUS Census Bureau, public domain
US Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income county migration flows2021 to 2022 filing yearsIRS SOI, public domain

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