† Citizen voting-age population estimated for prior cycles; 2004 predates the ACS and is extrapolated. Source: ACS 5-year, table B05003.
——
D+60R+60
2 counties by 2024 margin · County returns · MIT Election Lab
People and households
Who lives here
Exact values for this place, its state, and the United States.
Race · ethnicity · ancestry
Communities and origins
GroupIthaca-Cortland, NYNew YorkUnited States
English14.3%5.6%9.5%
Irish13.8%10.5%9.4%
German12.9%8.6%12.5%
Italian8.1%10.9%4.8%
American5.4%4.2%5.3%
Polish3.1%3.9%2.2%
French2.1%1.3%1.6%
Dutch1.7%——
Chinese3.0%3.6%1.3%
Asian Indian1.7%1.9%1.4%
Korean0.4%0.6%0.4%
Japanese0.2%0.2%0.2%
Bangladeshi0.2%0.6%—
Puerto Rican1.2%5.1%1.8%
Mexican1.1%2.5%11.3%
Dominican0.4%4.6%0.7%
Cuban0.3%—0.7%
Guatemalan0.3%0.5%0.5%
Spaniard0.2%——
Ecuadorian0.2%1.6%—
African American†2.3%8.0%9.9%
Hispanic or Latino counts residents of any race; the race groups count only their non-Hispanic residents, so the groups are mutually exclusive and sum to 100%. Expand a row to see ancestries reported within that group.
Age and life stage
Measure
Ithaca-Cortland, NY
New York
United States
Median age
33.7
39.9
39.1
Age 18–24
24.5%
9.0%
9.2%
Age 65 and older
16.7%
18.0%
17.2%
Household economy
Measure
Ithaca-Cortland, NY
New York
United States
Median household income
$72,918
$85,974
$84,427
Poverty rate
15.3%
14.0%
12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)
49.7%
40.0%
35.6%
Languages at home
Measure
Ithaca-Cortland, NY
New York
United States
Speaks a non-English language at home
13.8%
30.9%
22.3%
Spanish
3.2%
14.8%
13.6%
Russian, Polish, or other Slavic
1.4%
2.0%
0.7%
Other Indo-European
2.1%
4.0%
2.0%
Chinese (incl. Mandarin & Cantonese)
2.6%
3.2%
1.1%
Religious landscape
Measure
Ithaca-Cortland, NY
New York
United States
Catholic
10.6%
30.8%
18.6%
Evangelical Protestant
7.1%
5.1%
16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted
69.3%
48.7%
51.5%
Mainline Protestant
7.0%
3.8%
5.2%
American Community Survey 2024 5-year (CVAP, income, age, poverty, education, language, race, ancestry) · presidential returns from MIT Election Lab through 2024 · 2020 U.S. Religion Census (ASARB) — congregational adherents; unclaimed is the residual not counted by congregations.
Ithaca-Cortland, NY
presidential history
Presidential margin, 1892–2024
Democratic minus Republican, by election
Presidential margin over time
Year
Margin (D minus R)
1892
−15.4%
1896
−24.7%
1900
−20.8%
1904
−23.6%
1908
−22.0%
1912
+2.3%
1916
−19.1%
1920
−50.2%
1924
−54.6%
1928
−49.4%
1932
−34.1%
1936
−35.9%
1940
−36.6%
1944
−31.3%
1948
−38.7%
1952
−51.7%
1956
−57.7%
1960
−33.6%
1964
+28.2%
1968
−17.9%
1972
−26.8%
1976
−14.8%
1980
−8.8%
1984
−10.6%
1988
+5.9%
1992
+18.7%
1996
+19.0%
2000
+13.6%
2004
+18.9%
2008
+31.1%
2012
+30.2%
2016
+27.6%
2020
+32.8%
2024
+31.9%
DemocraticRepublican
34 presidential elections
Third column names the leading third-party or independent finisher. Source · MIT Election Lab · ICPSR · VEST (precinct-level 2024). Swing · margin change from the prior cycle. vs U.S. · margin relative to the national result that year.
Year
Won
Democratic
Republican
Other
Margin
Swing
vs U.S.
Total
D
65.5%Harris44,921
33.6%Trump23,060
0.9%
D+31.9
R+0.9
D+33.3
68,595
D
65.3%Biden43,989
32.5%Trump21,885
2.3%
D+32.8
D+5.2
D+28.3
67,414
D
59.9%Clinton37,661
32.2%Trump20,271
7.9%
D+27.6
R+2.5
D+25.5
62,922
D
63.5%Obama37,726
33.3%Romney19,802
3.2%
D+30.2
R+1.0
D+26.3
59,405
D
64.7%Obama41,687
33.5%McCain21,605
1.8%
D+31.1
D+12.3
D+23.9
64,472
D
58.1%Kerry37,899
39.3%Bush25,607
2.6%
D+18.9
D+5.2
D+21.3
65,181
D
51.8%Gore31,498
38.2%Bush23,208
10.0%
D+13.6
R+5.4
D+13.1
60,786
D
52.9%Clinton29,902
33.8%Dole19,138
13.3%
D+19.0
D+0.3
D+10.5
56,573
D
49.6%Clinton31,012
30.9%Bush19,302
19.5%
D+18.7
D+12.9
D+13.2
62,511
D
52.5%Dukakis29,128
46.6%Bush25,866
0.9%
D+5.9
D+16.5
D+13.6
55,468
R
44.5%Mondale25,795
55.1%Reagan31,946
0.4%
R+10.6
R+1.8
D+7.6
58,001
R
38.0%Carter18,146
46.8%Reagan22,333
15.2%
R+8.8
D+6.0
D+1.0
47,716
R
42.1%Carter19,755
56.8%Ford26,685
1.1%
R+14.8
D+12.1
R+16.8
46,971
R
36.5%McGovern17,578
63.3%Nixon30,490
0.2%
R+26.8
R+8.9
R+3.7
48,167
R
38.4%Humphrey16,134
56.3%Nixon23,655
5.4%
R+17.9
R+46.1
R+17.2
42,049
D
64.1%Johnson27,213
35.8%Goldwater15,219
0.1%
D+28.2
D+61.9
D+5.7
42,472
R
33.2%Kennedy14,580
66.8%Nixon29,366
0.1%
R+33.6
D+24.0
R+33.8
43,968
R
21.2%Stevenson9,087
78.8%Eisenhower33,834
0.0%
R+57.7
R+5.9
R+42.3
42,921
R
24.0%Stevenson10,364
75.8%Eisenhower32,658
0.2%
R+51.7
R+13.0
R+41.0
43,112
R
28.9%Truman10,335
67.6%Dewey24,152
3.5%
R+38.7
R+7.4
R+43.2
35,727
R
34.2%Roosevelt12,141
65.5%Dewey23,255
0.3%
R+31.3
D+5.2
R+38.8
35,494
R
31.4%Roosevelt12,265
67.9%Willkie26,558
0.7%
R+36.6
R+0.6
R+46.5
39,104
R
31.1%Roosevelt11,613
67.0%Landon25,050
1.9%
R+35.9
R+1.8
R+60.2
37,383
R
31.7%Roosevelt10,605
65.8%Hoover22,044
2.5%
R+34.1
D+15.3
R+51.9
33,501
R
24.6%Smith8,776
74.0%Hoover26,431
1.5%
R+49.4
D+5.2
R+31.9
35,735
R
20.1%Davis5,871
74.7%Coolidge21,798
5.1%
R+54.6
R+4.5
R+29.4
29,164
R
23.1%Cox6,028
73.3%Harding19,114
3.6%
R+50.2
R+31.1
R+24.0
26,089
R
37.8%Wilson6,148
56.9%Hughes9,257
5.3%
R+19.1
R+21.4
R+22.2
16,274
D
35.8%Wilson5,555
33.5%Taft5,196
30.6%
D+2.3
D+24.3
R+17.2
15,502
R
36.5%Bryan6,350
58.5%Taft10,180
5.0%
R+22.0
D+1.6
R+12.4
17,408
R
36.0%Parker6,429
59.6%Roosevelt10,636
4.4%
R+23.6
R+2.8
R+3.9
17,859
R
37.4%Bryan6,625
58.1%McKinley10,304
4.5%
R+20.8
D+4.0
R+13.2
17,722
R
35.8%Bryan6,080
60.5%McKinley10,281
3.7%
R+24.7
R+9.4
R+18.6
16,991
R
38.2%Cleveland6,311
53.5%Harrison8,851
8.3%
R+15.4
—
R+17.0
16,530
Congressional elections · 3 Senate races
U.S. Senate
Source · MIT Election Lab (MEDSL), Senate. CC-BY 4.0.
Year
Won
Democratic
Republican
Total
2024
D
67.0%44,953
32.3%21,679
67,118
2022
D
65.2%33,397
34.1%17,441
51,218
2018
D
70.8%37,931
28.9%15,498
53,551
voter registration
Registered voters
By party of registration, over time
Party registration · 2026D+23.1
vs
Presidential vote · 2024D+31.9
Registration leans Democratic; the presidential vote runs 8.8 points more Republican.
Domestic migration in Ithaca-Cortland, NY in Ithaca-Cortland, NY: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−859
2012
−591
2013
−224
2014
−1,478
2015
−1,904
2016
−1,498
2017
−1,221
2018
−930
2019
−1,007
2021
−3,014
2022
+819
2023
−520
2024
−838
2025
−1,190
Ithaca-Cortland, NY sits in the Mid-Atlantic. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 32.8 points in 2020 and a Republican high of 57.7 points in 1956. Between 2020 and 2024 the region moved 0.9 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 31.9 points.
A population of 150,783, a 79% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $72,918 describe the region. The region's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Madison-Janesville-Beloit, WI and Cedar Rapids-Iowa City, IA.
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How did Ithaca-Cortland, NY, New York vote in 2024?
In 2024, Ithaca-Cortland, NY, New York voted Democratic by 31.9 points (D+31.9), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 68,595 votes cast, 44,921 went Democratic and 23,060 went Republican.
When did Ithaca-Cortland, NY, New York last vote Republican?
The most recent presidential election in which Ithaca-Cortland, NY, New York voted Republican was 1984.
How many people live in Ithaca-Cortland, NY, New York?
Ithaca-Cortland, NY, New York has a population of 150,783 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Ithaca-Cortland, NY, New York?
Median household income in Ithaca-Cortland, NY, New York is $72,918 — below the national median of $80,734. The New York state median is $85,974.
What is the political history of Ithaca-Cortland, NY, New York?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Ithaca-Cortland, NY, New York from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 12 went Democratic and 22 went Republican.
