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state house district

New York 81st State House District

Office (updates table and map)

President margin by year

Place winner margin

1916–2024 · D minus R

Full record · 1916 → 2024

2024

Boundary by 2024 margin · Precinct returns · VEST · MIT Election Lab

The precinct map shows the 2024 presidential vote; the timeline scrubs the district’s overall result across 1892–2024, on its current boundaries.

People and households

Who lives here

Exact values for this place, its state, and the United States.

Race · ethnicity · ancestry

Communities and origins

Dominican18.1%4.6%0.7%

Puerto Rican12.4%5.1%1.8%

Mexican4.4%2.5%11.3%

Ecuadorian1.6%1.6%—

Honduran1.1%0.3%0.3%

Cuban0.5%—0.7%

Colombian0.5%0.9%0.4%

Guatemalan0.4%0.5%0.5%

American14.0%4.2%5.3%

Italian10.3%10.9%4.8%

Irish7.0%10.5%9.4%

German3.7%8.6%12.5%

Russian2.1%1.2%—

English1.6%5.6%9.5%

Polish1.2%3.9%2.2%

French1.2%1.3%1.6%

African American†11.7%8.0%9.9%

Jamaican2.6%1.6%0.4%

African1.7%0.6%0.5%

Ghanaian0.9%——

West Indian0.6%0.4%—

Guyanese0.5%0.7%—

Nigerian0.4%0.2%0.2%

Haitian0.3%0.9%0.3%

Asian Indian2.0%1.9%1.4%

Bangladeshi1.5%0.6%—

Chinese0.8%3.6%1.3%

Filipino0.6%0.6%0.9%

Vietnamese0.3%—0.6%

Pakistani0.3%0.4%—

Aztec7.9%——

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	NY HD 81	New York	United States
Median age	41.6	39.9	39.1
Age 18–24	9.5%	9.0%	9.2%
Age 65 and older	14.6%	18.0%	17.2%

Household economy

Measure	NY HD 81	New York	United States
Median household income	$80,222	$85,974	$84,427
Poverty rate	15.9%	14.0%	12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)	22.4%	40.0%	35.6%

Housing and tenure

Measure	NY HD 81	New York	United States
Owner-occupied homes	38.0%	54.3%	65.2%
Renter-occupied homes	62.0%	45.7%	34.8%
Median home value	$405,100	$423,800	$332,700
Median gross rent (monthly)	$1,680	$1,621	$1,413
Renters paying 30%+ of income	52.2%	52.1%	51.1%
Vacant housing units	4.4%	10.0%	10.1%

Getting to work

Measure	NY HD 81	New York	United States
Mean commute	43.0 min	32.6 min	26.4 min
Commutes 60 minutes or more	31.1%	16.8%	8.6%
Drives alone to work	26.2%	48.8%	68.8%
Takes public transit	44.0%	21.6%	3.2%
Works from home	14.1%	14.9%	15.1%

Languages at home

Measure	NY HD 81	New York	United States
Speaks a non-English language at home	57.0%	30.9%	22.3%
Spanish	45.1%	14.8%	13.6%
French (incl. Cajun & Haitian)	1.8%	1.5%	0.7%
Other Indo-European	3.5%	4.0%	2.0%
Other languages	4.3%	1.3%	0.8%

Religious landscape

Measure	NY HD 81	New York	United States
Catholic	—	30.8%	18.6%
Evangelical Protestant	—	5.1%	16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted	—	48.7%	51.5%

Origins and service

Measure	NY HD 81	New York	United States
Foreign-born residents	32.3%	22.8%	14.1%
Naturalized citizens	21.0%	13.6%	7.4%
Not U.S. citizens	11.3%	9.2%	6.8%
Veterans (18+)	3.1%	3.7%	6.2%
Income inequality (Gini)	0.491	0.517	0.483

American Community Survey 2024 5-year (CVAP, income, age, poverty, education, language, race, ancestry) · 2020 U.S. Religion Census (ASARB) — congregational adherents; unclaimed is the residual not counted by congregations · American Community Survey 2024 — housing and tenure (B25003, B25002, B25077, B25064, B25070), commuting (B08013, B08303, B08301), origins and service (B05002, B21001, B19083).

President results by year

Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries

HarrisDemocratic71.5%30,464TrumpRepublican27.3%11,650OtherAll other candidates1.2%511

D+44.1

Lead: 18,814
Total: 42,625
vs nation: D+45.6

modeled Census-place estimatereview required

BidenDemocratic78.8%37,240TrumpRepublican20.3%9,584OtherAll other candidates0.9%412

D+58.5

Lead: 27,656
Total: 47,236
vs nation: D+54.1