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State Fact Sheets: New York

• Population, Income, Food Insecurity, Education, and Employment
• Federal Funds
• Organic Agriculture
• Farm Characteristics
• Farm Financial Indicators
• Top Commodities, Exports, and Counties
• About the State Fact Sheets

Data updated January 17, 2012

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Population, Income, Food Insecurity, Education, and Employment

	Rural *	Urban *	Total
Population
Year
1980	1,508,228	16,049,937	17,558,165
1990	1,552,018	16,438,437	17,990,455
2000	1,560,940	17,415,517	18,976,457
2010	1,563,219	17,814,883	19,378,102
More information on New York population • County-level Population Data • Rural Population and Migration Briefing Room • Contact John Cromartie, 202-694-5421.

	Rural *	Urban *	Total
Income
Per-capita income (2009 dollars)
2008	31,832	49,334	47,948
2009	32,121	47,748	46,516
Percent change	0.9	-3.2	-3.0

Earnings per job (2009 dollars)
2008	39,136	67,239	65,262
2009	39,247	65,066	63,252
Percent change	0.3	-3.2	-3.1

Poverty rate (percent)
1979	12.9	13.5	13.4
1989	12.7	13.1	13.0
1999	13.2	14.7	14.6
2010 (latest model-based estimates)	15.1	15.1	15.0
More information on New York poverty rates • County-level Poverty Data • Rural Income, Poverty, and Welfare Briefing Room • See important notes about decennial and model-based intercensal poverty estimates • Contact Tracey Farrigan, 202-694-5489

	2002-04 Avg.	2005-07 Avg.	2008-10 Avg.
Household-level Food Insecurity and Very Low Food Security
Percent of households
Food insecure	10.5	9.9	12.9
Very low food security	3.2	3.3	5.1
More information on Food Insecurity • Food Security in the United States Briefing Room • Definitions of Food Insecurity and Very Low Food Security • Comparisons of prevalence rates of food insecurity between States must take account of the margins of error, which are sizeable for many States. Margins of error are published along with State prevalence rates in each year’s Household Food Security in the United States report. • Contact Alisha Coleman-Jensen, 202-694-5456.

	Rural *	Urban *	Total
Education (Persons 25 and older)
Percent not completing high school
1980 (Census)	35.7	33.6	33.7
1990 (Census)	25.9	25.1	25.2
2000 (Census)	20.0	21.0	20.9
2006-2010 (ACS)	13.8	15.7	15.6

Percent completing high school only
1980 (Census)	38.0	33.7	34.1
1990 (Census)	36.8	28.8	29.5
2000 (Census)	37.0	26.9	27.8
2006-2010 (ACS)	37.7	27.4	28.2

Percent completing some college
1980 (Census)	14.3	14.3	14.3
1990 (Census)	23.0	22.1	22.2
2000 (Census)	26.4	23.7	23.9
2006-2010 (ACS)	28.7	23.7	24.1

Percent completing college
1980 (Census)	12.0	18.5	17.9
1990 (Census)	14.2	23.9	23.1
2000 (Census)	16.5	28.3	27.4
2006-2010 (ACS)	19.8	33.2	32.1
More information on New York education • County-level Education Data • Rural Labor and Education Briefing Room • Contact Alexander Marré, 202-694-5338

	Rural *	Urban *	Total
Employment
Total number of jobs
2008	784,559	10,370,223	11,154,782
2009	767,931	10,161,822	10,929,753

Percent employment change
2007-2008	-0.3	0.3	0.3
2008-2009	-3.6	-2.9	-3.0
2009-2010	-1.1	-0.6	-0.6

Unemployment rate (percent)
2009	8.9	8.4	8.4
2010	9.0	8.5	8.6
More information on New York unemployment rates • County-level Unemployment and Median Household Income Data • Rural Labor and Education Briefing Room • Contact Lorin Kusmin, 202-694-5429

	Rural *	Urban *	Total
Federal Funds, FY 2010
Federal funding, dollars per person
All Federal funds	10,949	10,234	10,292

Federal funding by purpose (function codes)
Agriculture and natural resources	68	10	15
Community resources	619	979	950
Defense and space	2,235	618	749
Human resources	208	185	187
Income security	6,818	7,055	7,036
National functions	1,001	1,386	1,355

Federal funding by type of payments (object codes)
Grants	1,950	2,764	2,699
Direct loans	361	244	253
Guaranteed/insured loans	508	745	726
Retirement/disability payments	3,439	2,716	2,775
Other direct payments to individuals	1,902	2,358	2,321
Direct payments, not to individuals	59	86	84
Procurement contracts	504	735	716
Salaries and wages	2,226	587	719
Total does not include Statewide funds undistributed at the county level. More information on Federal Funds • Program Function and Object Code Definitions • Federal Funds and Development Policy Briefing Room • Federal Funds Data • Contact Richard Reeder, 202-694-5360

* The terms “rural” and “urban” here refer to data for nonmetro and metro areas, a county-level classification defined by the Office of Management and Budget. We use the June 2003 version of nonmetro and metro areas because it reflects conditions at the beginning of the decade. See Measuring Rurality: What is Rural? for a discussion of differences between metro-nonmetro categories and the Census Bureau’s rural-urban classification.

More information on socioeconomic conditions • Rural Emphasis Page • Contact Tim Parker, 202-694-5435.

Organic Agriculture

	2006	2007	2008

Number of certified operations	493	638	803
Crops (acres)	69,613	102,004	131,932
Pasture & rangeland (acres)	21,626	27,022	38,193
Total acres	91,239	129,026	170,125
More information on organic agriculture • Organic Production Data • Organic Agriculture Briefing Room • Contact Catherine Greene, 202-694-5541.

Farm Characteristics

	1997	2002	2007
1997, 2002 and 2007 Census of Agriculture

Approximate total land area (acres)	30,196,361	30,216,824	30,162,489
Total farmland (acres)	7,788,241	7,660,969	7,174,743
Percent of total land area	25.8	25.4	23.8

Cropland (acres)	4,961,538	4,841,367	4,314,954
Percent of total farmland	63.7	63.2	60.1
Percent in pasture	13.8	10.6	6.5
Percent irrigated	1.4	1.4	1.5

Harvested Cropland (acres)	3,855,732	3,846,368	3,651,278

Woodland (acres)	1,655,185	1,649,585	1,559,522
Percent of total farmland	21.3	21.5	21.7
Percent in pasture	14.7	14.3	10.6

Pastureland (acres)	520,150	550,225	714,615
Percent of total farmland	6.7	7.2	10.0

Land in house lots, ponds, roads, wasteland, etc. (acres)	651,368	619,792	585,652
Percent of total farmland	8.4	8.1	8.2

Conservation practices
Farmland in conservation or wetlands reserve programs (acres)	97,617	211,996	115,546

Average farm size (acres)	204	206	197

Farms by size (percent)
1 to 99 acres	45.9	47.9	51.2
100 to 499 acres	45.1	42.8	40.4
500 to 999 acres	6.7	6.6	5.5
1000 to 1,999 acres	1.9	2.2	2.1
2,000 or more acres	0.4	0.6	0.8

Farms by sales (percent)
Less than $9,999	51.6	55.9	54.6
$10,000 to $49,999	20.7	18.5	20.4
$50,000 to $99,999	9.1	8.2	6.2
$100,000 to $499,999	15.9	14.4	14.0
More than $500,000	2.6	2.9	4.8

Tenure of farmers
Full owner (farms)	24,286	24,722	24,565
Percent of total	63.5	66.4	67.6

Part owner (farms)	11,741	11,040	10,424
Percent of total	30.7	29.6	28.7

Tenant owner (farms)	2,237	1,493	1,363
Percent of total	5.8	4.0	3.7

Farm organization
Individuals/family, sole proprietorship (farms)	32,813	32,654	30,621
Percent of total	85.8	87.6	84.2

Family-held corporations (farms)	1,593	1,388	1,885
Percent of total	4.2	3.7	5.2

Partnerships (farms)	3,465	2,846	3,347
Percent of total	9.1	7.6	9.2

Non-family corporations (farms)	178	193	225
Percent of total	0.5	0.5	0.6

Others - cooperative, estate or trust, institutional, etc. (farms)	215	174	274
Percent of total	0.6	0.5	0.8

Characteristics of principal farm operators
Average operator age (years)	52.9	54.1	56.2
Percent with farming as their primary occupation	53.9	60.8	54.0
Men	33,795	31,583	29,664
Women	4,469	5,672	6,688

More information on farm characteristics • Census of Agriculture • Contact NASS Customer Service, 1-800-727-9540.

Farm Financial Indicators

	2009	2010
Farm income and value added data

Number of farms	36,600	36,300

	Thousands $
Final crop output	1,672,633	1,811,818
+ Final animal output	2,041,110	2,580,444
+ Services and forestry	505,805	608,851
= Final agricultural sector output	4,219,548	5,001,113

- Intermediate consumption outlays	2,154,333	2,313,392
+ Net government transactions	-88,118	-171,938
= Gross value added	1,977,097	2,515,783

- Capital consumption	549,492	558,742

= Net value added	1,427,605	1,957,041

- Factor payments	829,981	809,734
Employee compensation (total hired labor)	578,926	558,443
Net rent received by nonoperator landlords	40,741	51,780
Real estate and nonreal estate interest	210,314	199,511

= Net farm income	597,624	1,147,307

More information on farm income • Farm Income Data • Farm Income and Costs Briefing Room • Contact Timothy Park, 202-694-5446.

Farm balance sheet

• Estimation of State-level Balance Sheets has been suspended. See the Farm Balance Sheet data page for more information.

Top Commodities, Exports, and Counties

	Value of receipts thousand $	Percent of state total farm receipts	Percent of US value
Top 5 agriculture commodities, 2010
1. Dairy products	2,206,494	50.3	7.0
2. Greenhouse/nursery	377,460	8.6	2.4
3. Corn	269,983	6.2	0.6
4. Apples	207,683	4.7	9.2
5. Cattle and calves	178,482	4.1	0.3

All commodities	4,382,387		1.4

More information on New York's top agriculture commodities • Leading commodities by cash receipts in Excel. • Other cash receipts data. • Contact Ted Covey, 202-694-5344.

	Rank among states	Value million $
Top 5 agriculture exports, estimates, FY 2010
1. Dairy Products	3	288.3
2. Fruits and preparations	6	183.7
3. Wheat and products	19	145.6
4. Other	10	101.9
5. Soybeans and products	22	88.8

Total export value	28	1,102.4

More information on agricultural exports • State Export Data • Agricultural Trade Briefing Room • Contact Nora Brooks, 202-694-5211.

	Percent of state total receipts	Thousands $
Top 5 counties in agricultural sales 2007
1. Suffolk County	5.5	242,933
2. Wyoming County	5.2	229,943
3. Cayuga County	4.9	214,403
4. Genesee County	4.0	177,810
5. Wayne County	3.8	168,963

State total		4,418,634

More information on agricultural sales • Census of Agriculture • Contact NASS Customer Service, 1-800-727-9540.

Data Sources

Local Area Unemployment Statistics, county data, Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Current Population Survey, Food Security Supplements , 2002-2010, Census Bureau, U.S. Department of Commerce.
Regional Economic Information System, April 2011, Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.S. Department of Commerce.
1980, 1990, 2000, 2010 Census of Population, Census Bureau, U.S. Department of Commerce.
2006-2010 American Community Survey, Census Bureau, U.S. Department of Commerce.
Census Bureau, U.S. Department of Commerce, Consolidated Federal Funds Report
Organic data, USDA, Economic Research Service, based on information from USDA-accredited State and private organic certifiers.
Farm Income and Costs Briefing Room, Economic Research Service, USDA.
Foreign Agricultural Trade of the United States (FATUS), Economic Research Service, USDA.
Census of Agriculture, National Agricultural Statistics Service, USDA.

Prepared by Economic Research Service, USDA, Washington, DC.

For more information, contact: Tim Parker

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Updated date: January 17, 2012