September 28th, 2021
From 2010 to 2020, the number of housing units in the Hudson valley grew by 3.9%. Almost half of this growth occurred in Westchester County. Orange County experienced the largest percent increase (7.2%). Both Greene and Sullivan […]
September 21, 2021
Fall pumpkin and apple picking are popular activities in the Hudson Valley. However, in the region’s nine counties the number of acres dedicated to popular produce items like apples is dwindling. The acreage for apples declined by 39% between […]
September 14th, 2021
The U.S. Census Bureau County Business Pattens (CBP) comes from employer establishments in the Business Register. The CBP data includes the number of employer establishments, number of employees, and average annual pay per employee. According to the […]
September 7th, 2021
The percentage of the population that identifies as African America or Black has increased in the majority of the Hudson Valley counties, but not all. In Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Sullivan, Ulster and Westchester Counties the percentage increased […]
August 31st, 2021
Across the Hudson Valley the percent of the population that identifies as Hispanic or Latino is increasing. In Westchester County, 26.8% of the population identified as part of this demographic, up from 20.5% in 2010.In many of […]
August 24th, 2021
Limited results of the highly anticipated 2020 Census are now available. The population counts show that the Hudson Valley region grew by just over one hundred thousand people in the decade since 2010. This equates to a […]
August 17th, 2021
Across the region high school is the last step of formal education for more than 30% of the population. In the mostly rural county of Greene, 52% of the population has a high school degree or equivalent […]
August 10th, 2021
Westchester County has the highest countywide population density outside of the boroughs of New York City and Nassau County on Long Island. Population density is especially high in the southern cities of Westchester, including New Rochelle, Mt. […]
August 3rd, 2021
Ulster County has extremely low population density in the western parts of the county where the landscape is dominated by the Catskill Mountains and undevelopable forestlands. Population density generally increases moving from west to east with the […]
July 27th, 2021
Sullivan County, which nearly the size of the State of Rhode Island, has the second lowest population density in the Hudson Valley behind Greene County. The population centers of the county are the Village of Monticello and […]