
New York · FIPS 36077
Otsego ZIP codes — Otsego County, New York
Quick answer
Otsego County is home to 59,738 residents with a median household income of $67,086 and a median home value of $175,900. 74.3% of households own their home and 14.1% of residents live below the poverty line. Looking for a Otsego ZIP code? 35 ZIP code areas fall inside Otsego County, New York, listed in full below.
- Population
- 59,738Otsego County residents
- Median household income
- $67,086Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
- Median home value
- $175,900Owner-occupied units
- Median gross rent
- $942Rent plus utilities, monthly
- Median age
- 40.4 yrsAll residents
- Homeownership rate
- 74.3%Owner-occupied households
Otsego County, NY in context
How this area compares with national benchmarks.
Otsego County is a small city in New York, with 59,738 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates. The median age here is 40.4 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older profile than the country as a whole. 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 Otsego County earn a median of $67,086 a year, 14.6% below the national figure of $78,538. 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 14.1% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.
The typical owner-occupied home in Otsego County is valued at $175,900, 42% below the national figure, while median gross rent runs $942 a month, 33% below the national figure, or roughly $11,304 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 16.9% 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 2.6×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 74.3% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.
Every value on this page is published directly by the Census for this area — nothing is modelled or interpolated. 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.
ZIP codes in Otsego County
ZIP code tabulation areas whose land area falls mostly in Otsego County.
How to read this page
What these estimates cover.
Figures are five-year rolling averages from the American Community Survey, not single-year counts, so they describe conditions across 2019-2023 ACS 5-year rather than a single date. Median home value covers owner-occupied units as valued by their owners, and median gross rent includes utilities the renter pays. Small counties carry wide margins of error; treat single-dollar differences between neighbouring counties as noise.
Source: US Census Bureau, ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimates · rates as published for 2019-2023 ACS 5-year
Cities and towns in New York
Largest Census places in New York by population.
- New York city 8,516,202
- Buffalo city 276,397
- Rochester city 209,720
- Yonkers city 209,529
- Syracuse city 146,211
- Albany city 100,081
- New Rochelle city 81,591
- Cheektowaga CDP 76,251
- Mount Vernon city 72,528
- Schenectady city 68,521
- Utica city 64,440
- White Plains city 59,818
Nearby counties
Other counties in New York.
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about this area.
- What is the population of Otsego County?
- Otsego County has 59,738 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates.
- What is the median household income in Otsego County?
- Median household income in Otsego County is $67,086 a year, 14.6% below the national figure of $78,538.
- How much does it cost to rent or buy in Otsego County?
- Median gross rent is $942 a month and the median home value is $175,900, so rent absorbs about 16.9% of median household income.
- Is Otsego County affordable compared with the rest of the US?
- Homes cost about 2.6× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Otsego County is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 16.9% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
- How current is this Otsego County 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.