New York State
New York State: the places inside it, the companies based here, and where this atlas has research on it.
state · population 20,000,000 (registry) · North America · page prepared 2026-11-07
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New York State at a glance
Rolled up from the 81 regions inside New York State on this site, with census figures from Statistics Canada.
Population19,872,319
census
Places inside77
48 with a full /local page
Businesses on file309,813
business register, all places inside
Companies headquartered1,222
in the company directory
Who represents them13
places with a /politics page
Property & employers13 · 0
/property and /employers records
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Who leads New York State, and how households are doing
Researched 2026-11-08 from official statistics; every figure links to its source.
Leadership
Economy & households
- Population
- 20,002,427 persons (2025-07) ↗
- GDP
- 2,467,000 USD millions, current dollars (BEA, as quoted by Wikipedia: $2.467 trillion) (2025) ↗
- Unemployment
- 4.3 % seasonally adjusted (preliminary) (2026-09) ↗
- Real GDP growth
- 4 % annual rate, real GDP, Q2 2026 (fastest of all states) (2026-Q2) ↗
- Personal income per person
- 88,847 USD (2025) ↗
- Debt per person with a credit report
- 57,680 USD per person with a credit report (NY Fed reports 57.68 thousand $) (2026-Q2) ↗
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Home prices in the biggest cities
As each source measures them (benchmark, median or average sale price); not directly comparable across measures.
| City / metro | Price | Measure | As of |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA ↗ | 815,200 USD | median sale (existing single-family, preliminary) | 2026-Q3 |
| Nassau County-Suffolk County, NY (Long Island) ↗ | 864,100 USD | median sale (existing single-family, preliminary) | 2026-Q3 |
| Buffalo-Cheektowaga-Niagara Falls, NY ↗ | 321,900 USD | median sale (existing single-family, preliminary) | 2026-Q3 |
| Rochester, NY ↗ | 318,600 USD | median sale (existing single-family, preliminary) | 2026-Q3 |
| Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY ↗ | 373,700 USD | median sale (existing single-family, preliminary) | 2026-Q3 |
| Syracuse, NY ↗ | 296,600 USD | median sale (existing single-family, preliminary) | 2026-Q3 |
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Languages
Official-language and home-language figures as the census reports them.
| Language | Share | Measure | As of |
|---|---|---|---|
| English ↗ | 69% | most often at home (ACS 1-year 2023 B16001; shares computed by Wikipedia editors) | 2023 |
| Spanish ↗ | 15% | most often at home (ACS 1-year 2023 B16001; shares computed by Wikipedia editors) | 2023 |
| Chinese ↗ | 3% | most often at home (ACS 1-year 2023 B16001; shares computed by Wikipedia editors) | 2023 |
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Largest companies in New York State
Ranked by the measure shown, from the cited ranking or filing.
| Company | Measure | Value | As of |
|---|---|---|---|
| JPMorgan Chase (New York City), Fortune 500 #12 ↗ | revenue | 280,345 USD millions | 2025 |
| Citigroup (New York City), #24 ↗ | revenue | 168,297 USD millions | 2025 |
| Verizon Communications (New York City), #28 ↗ | revenue | 138,191 USD millions | 2025 |
| Goldman Sachs Group (New York City), #36 ↗ | revenue | 125,097 USD millions | 2025 |
| Morgan Stanley (New York City), #39 ↗ | revenue | 119,662 USD millions | 2025 |
| PepsiCo (Purchase, NY), #46 ↗ | revenue | 93,925 USD millions | 2025 |
| American Express (New York City), #56 ↗ | revenue | 80,463 USD millions | 2025 |
| MetLife (New York City), #59 ↗ | revenue | 77,084 USD millions | 2025 |
| New York Life Insurance (New York City), #62 ↗ | revenue | 73,145.5 USD millions | 2025 |
| IBM (Armonk, NY), #66 ↗ | revenue | 67,535 USD millions | 2025 |
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Worth knowing
- 2026-11Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) won re-election on Nov 3, 2026, defeating Republican Bruce Blakeman 59.7% to 40.1% with 93% reporting (as of Nov 8). Her running mate, former NYC Council Speaker Adrienne Adams, is Lieutenant Governor-elect and is due to succeed Antonio Delgado in January 2027. ↗
- 2026-09New York's real GDP grew at a 4.0% annual rate in Q2 2026, the fastest of any state. Finance and insurance contributed the most to the increase. ↗
- 2026-01Census Vintage 2025 estimates show New York grew by only 1,008 residents from July 2024 to July 2025. The state is still 201,269 people (1.0%) below the April 2020 base. ↗
- 2026-01Net international migration into New York fell to about 100,000 in the year to July 2025, down from a peak of almost 300,000 in 2024 that was driven by humanitarian migrants. ↗
- 2026-0653 Fortune 500 companies have their headquarters in New York, the third-most of any state after Texas (57) and California (56). New York City has 43, more than any other city. ↗
- 2026-10The Rochester metro's median existing single-family price rose 10.9% year over year to $318,600 in Q3 2026, the largest gain among New York's major metros. ↗
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Census
US Census Bureau American Community Survey.
Median household income$84,578
Median rent$1,576/mo
Immigrants22.6%
Renters45.7%
Aged 65+17.4%
Unemployment6.2%
Low income13.7%
Speak a language other than English28.9%
Languages spoken at home (other than English)
- Spanish2,762,664 · 13.9%
- Other Indo-European languages749,289 · 3.8%
- Chinese (incl. Mandarin, Cantonese)593,075 · 3%
- Russian, Polish, or other Slavic languages383,695 · 1.9%
- French, Haitian, or Cajun280,614 · 1.4%
- German or other West Germanic languages265,973 · 1.3%
- Other and unspecified languages229,791 · 1.2%
- Other Asian and Pacific Island languages174,814 · 0.9%
- Arabic121,719 · 0.6%
- Korean90,209 · 0.5%
- Tagalog (incl. Filipino)77,225 · 0.4%
- Vietnamese22,810 · 0.1%
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Largest places in New York State
By registry population; places with a full /local page are marked.
- 1.New York (Manhattan), NY full8,516,202
- 2.Brooklyn, NY full2,646,306
- 3.Staten Island, NY full495,747
- 4.Oyster Bay, NY full301,332
- 5.Buffalo, NY full278,349
- 6.Yonkers, NY full211,569
- 7.Rochester, NY full211,328
- 8.Syracuse, NY full148,620
- 9.Albany, NY full99,224
- 10.Mount Vernon, NY full73,893
- 11.Southampton, NY full69,036
- 12.Schenectady, NY full67,047
- 13.Utica, NY full65,283
- 14.White Plains, NY full59,818
- 15.Troy, NY full51,033
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Inside New York State
68 regions have New York State as their parent.
- Albany, NY
- Alexandria Bay, NY
- Altmar, NY
- Amsterdam, NY
- Armonk, NY
- Auburn, NY
- Batavia, NY
- Binghamton, NY
- Brooklyn, NY
- Buffalo, NY
- Canandaigua, NY
- Catskill, NY
- Chappaqua, NY
- Clayton, NY town
- Cooperstown, NY
- Corning & South Corning, NY
- Ellicottville, NY
- Elmira, NY
- Geneva, NY
- Glens Falls, NY
- Grand Island, NY town
- Hammondsport, NY
- Horseheads, NY
- Ithaca, NY
- Jamestown, NY
- Johnstown, NY town
- Kingston, NY
- Lake George, NY
- Lake Placid, NY
- Lewiston, NY town
- Lockport, NY
- Long Island, NY region
- Massena, NY
- Mount Vernon, NY
- New York (Manhattan), NY
- Newburgh City, NY
- Niagara Falls, NY
- Ogdensburg, NY
- Olean-Allegany, NY
- Oswego, NY
- Painted Post, NY
- Peekskill, NY
- Phoenicia, NY
- Plattsburgh, NY
- Port Jervis, NY
- Poughkeepsie, NY
- Purchase, NY
- Rochester, NY
- Rouses Point, NY
- Salamanca, NY
- Saratoga Springs, NY
- Saugerties, NY
- Schenectady, NY
- Seneca Falls, NY
- Staten Island, NY
- Syracuse, NY
- Tarrytown, NY
- Troy, NY
- Utica, NY
- Village of Saranac Lake, NY region
- Warrensburg, NY
- Warwick, NY
- Watertown, NY
- Watkins Glen, NY
- White Plains, NY
- Windham, NY
- Yonkers, NY
- Youngstown, NY town
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Companies based in New York State
11 in the Research Upon company directory list their headquarters here, and 1,222 across New York State and the places inside it — search them all below.
| Company | Industry | Founded |
|---|---|---|
| Adirondack Beverages | ||
| Blue Beverage | ||
| Crush and Co-pack | 1852 | |
| E.D. Smith | Food | 1882 |
| JGS Development Group | ||
| Kludt Bros Farm | 1953 | |
| Mayer Bros | 1852 | |
| My-T Acres | 1950 | |
| Organic Food Incubator | Business | |
| Torrey Farms | 1977 | |
| Turek Farms | 1969 |
areaAbout this page: figures for the whole of New York State are rolled up from every region inside it; each place inside has a page of its own, and the companies headquartered here are listed above.