What is the population of Oneida city?

Oneida city has 10,240 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #194 of 1,292 in New York.

What is the median household income in Oneida city?

Median household income in Oneida city is $60,380 a year, 23.1% below the national figure of $78,538.

How much does it cost to rent or buy in Oneida city?

Median gross rent is $841 a month and the median home value is $146,300, so rent absorbs about 16.7% of median household income.

Is Oneida city affordable compared with the rest of the US?

Homes cost about 2.4× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Oneida city is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 16.7% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.

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Oneida, NY population, income and ZIP codes

Quick answer

The population of the city of Oneida, New York (Oneida, NY — Census place “Oneida city”) is 10,240 residents, ranking #194 of 1292 places in New York. Median household income is $60,380, the median home is worth $146,300 and median gross rent runs $841 a month. Looking for the Oneida New York ZIP code list? 1 ZIP codes serve Oneida, NY: 13421.

Population: 10,240Oneida city residents
Median household income: $60,380Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value: $146,300Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent: $841Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age: 46.1 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate: 63.7%Owner-occupied households

Oneida ZIP codes (New York)

Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Oneida.

The Oneida NY ZIP code list below covers 1 ZIP code. Open any one for its population, income, housing and rent profile.

13421

What the numbers mean in Oneida city

Housing cost measured against local earnings.

A household earning the Oneida city median would spend about 16.7% of gross income on the median rent. The 30% mark is the federal threshold for cost burden, so anything above it signals a stretched rental market. The median home costs 2.4× the median household income; nationally that ratio sits near 4.5×. Poverty affects 12.8% of residents and 63.7% of households own their home.

Source: US Census Bureau, ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimates · rates as published for 2019-2023 ACS 5-year

Oneida city, NY in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

Oneida city is a mid-size town in New York, with 10,240 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #194 of 1,292 ranked by population — larger than 85% of them. The median age here is 46.1 years against 39.1 nationally, a markedly older profile that usually tracks retirees staying put and younger households leaving for work. Places under 65,000 residents only appear in the five-year release, never the one-year file, so these values pool sixty months of responses and lag the current year by design.

Households in Oneida city earn a median of $60,380 a year, 23.1% below the national figure of $78,538 and 34% below the $91,806 median for the 847 New York cities we cover. Median household income counts every pre-tax dollar arriving at an address — wages, self-employment, Social Security, pensions, interest and public assistance — for everyone living there, so multi-earner households pull the figure up even where individual pay is modest. Poverty reaches 12.8% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Oneida city is valued at $146,300, 51.8% below the national figure and 54% below the $315,800 peer median, while median gross rent runs $841 a month, 40.2% below the national figure, or roughly $10,092 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 16.7% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is cheap relative to what people here earn. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 2.4×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so purchase prices are unusually low against local pay, the pattern in places where supply is plentiful and wage growth has been flat. 63.7% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

No figure on this page is estimated by us; each one comes straight from the published ACS tables for this area. Small-area estimates still carry wider margins of error than state or national figures, so check the linked ACS tables before relying on them for lending, appraisal or legal work.

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Frequently asked questions

Common questions about this area.

What is the population of Oneida city?: Oneida city has 10,240 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #194 of 1,292 in New York.
What is the median household income in Oneida city?: Median household income in Oneida city is $60,380 a year, 23.1% below the national figure of $78,538.
How much does it cost to rent or buy in Oneida city?: Median gross rent is $841 a month and the median home value is $146,300, so rent absorbs about 16.7% of median household income.
Is Oneida city affordable compared with the rest of the US?: Homes cost about 2.4× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Oneida city is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 16.7% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
How current is this Oneida city data?: All figures come from the US Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates. Places under 65,000 residents only appear in the five-year release, never the one-year file, so these values pool sixty months of responses and lag the current year by design.