Housing affordability, population, jobs and housing stock for
Cortland County — the same measures as the regional
forecast, narrowed to this one county.
Whether housing prices are keeping pace with local incomes. The gap between what homes cost and what households can actually afford is the clearest single read on housing pressure.
Home prices against local incomes
How is the population changing?
Population by age group, measured back to 2010 and projected forward. Where the age curve moves tells us which housing types will be needed, and when.
Population by age group
How is the job market changing?
Job counts over time, by sector, and what those jobs pay. Comparing across the region shows where employment is concentrating.
Total jobs
How are households changing by income?
Which income groups are growing and which are shrinking. This is what identifies the households facing the most pressure, and the income bands new housing most needs to reach.
Household growth by income group
Who lives here today?
Household size, structure and cost burden. Comparing how households are composed against the housing available to them shows how well the two line up.
Household characteristics by income
What does the housing stock look like?
What has been built, when it was built, how much of it sits empty and what is on the market right now.
Housing stock by tenure
About this data
These charts are produced and hosted by CommunityScale and update
automatically as their data pipelines refresh. The underlying figures
come from public sources including the Census Bureau and American
Community Survey, HUD, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, LEHD LODES and
the Building Permit Survey, alongside commercial listing data.
CommunityScale Housing Forecast (2025). Housing needs analysis and population projection tool.
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for methodology and per-chart data sources.