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Syracuse Facts
The fertile farming country stretching from Albany at the head of the Hudson to Buffalo on Lake Erie, along the route of the Erie Canal , comprises the agricultural heartland of New York State. The eastern parts - also known as Central Leatherstocking , after the protective leggings worn by the area's first settlers - are well off the conventional tourist trails. Unless you want to check out one of the specialist sports museums, like the Baseball Hall of Fame at Cooperstown , this is not a high-priority destination.
With the captivating exception of Niagara Falls , one of the continent's biggest crowd pullers, there's little to see in the northwest reaches of New York State. Standing out from the mostly flat farmland, the industrial giants of Rochester, Syracuse and Buffalo each possess a couple of worthy museums, but are best approached as bases for seeing the surrounding area (Buffalo, for example, is a good base for Niagara Falls).
Population (year 2000): 147,306, Est. population in July 2004: 143,101 (-2.9% change)
Males: 69,308 (47.1%), Females: 77,998 (52.9%)
Elevation: 390 feet
County: Onondaga
Land area: 25.1 square miles
Zip codes: 13202, 13203, 13204, 13205, 13206, 13207, 13208, 13209, 13210, 13211, 13212, 13214, 13215, 13219, 13224, 13290.
Median resident age: 30.5 years
Median household income: $25,000 (year 2000)
Median house value: $68,000 (year 2000)
Races in Syracuse:
White Non-Hispanic (62.4%)
Black (25.3%)
Hispanic (5.3%)
Two or more races (3.6%)
Other race (2.2%)
American Indian (2.2%)
Vietnamese (1.0%)
Chinese (0.6%)
Other Asian (0.5%)
Asian Indian (0.5%)
(Total can be greater than 100% because Hispanics could be counted in other races)
Ancestries: Irish (15.9%), Italian (14.1%), German (12.2%), English (7.6%), Polish (5.0%), French (4.2%).
For population 25 years and over in Syracuse
High school or higher: 76.2%
Bachelor's degree or higher: 23.2%
Graduate or professional degree: 10.9%
Unemployed: 9.3%
Mean travel time to work: 17.4 minutes
For population 15 years and over in Syracuse city
Never married: 45.4%
Now married: 33.4%
Separated: 3.8%
Widowed: 7.8%
Divorced: 9.6%
7.6% Foreign born (3.3% Asia, 2.5% Europe, 1.2% Latin America).
Population change in the 1990s: -16,829 (-10.3%).
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