† Citizen voting-age population estimated for prior cycles; 2004 predates the ACS and is extrapolated. Source: ACS 5-year, table B05003.
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D+60R+60
1 counties by 2024 margin · County returns · MIT Election Lab
People and households
Who lives here
Exact values for this place, its state, and the United States.
Race · ethnicity · ancestry
Communities and origins
GroupOneonta, NYNew YorkUnited States
English15.6%5.6%9.5%
Irish15.3%10.5%9.4%
German15.0%8.6%12.5%
Italian10.5%10.9%4.8%
American6.1%4.2%5.3%
Polish3.8%3.9%2.2%
Scottish3.4%—1.3%
French2.8%1.3%1.6%
Puerto Rican1.6%5.1%1.8%
Mexican0.7%2.5%11.3%
Dominican0.4%4.6%0.7%
Guatemalan0.4%0.5%0.5%
Ecuadorian0.2%1.6%—
African American†1.5%8.0%9.9%
Jamaican0.2%1.6%0.4%
Chinese0.7%3.6%1.3%
Filipino0.3%0.6%0.9%
Asian Indian0.2%1.9%1.4%
Hispanic or Latino counts residents of any race; the race groups count only their non-Hispanic residents, so the groups are mutually exclusive and sum to 100%. Expand a row to see ancestries reported within that group.
Age and life stage
Measure
Oneonta, NY
New York
United States
Median age
39.9
39.9
39.1
Age 18–24
19.8%
9.0%
9.2%
Age 65 and older
21.5%
18.0%
17.2%
Household economy
Measure
Oneonta, NY
New York
United States
Median household income
$68,885
$85,974
$84,427
Poverty rate
12.5%
14.0%
12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)
34.4%
40.0%
35.6%
Languages at home
Measure
Oneonta, NY
New York
United States
Speaks a non-English language at home
6.6%
30.9%
22.3%
Spanish
2.1%
14.8%
13.6%
German or other West Germanic
1.8%
1.5%
0.5%
Other Indo-European
1.0%
4.0%
2.0%
Religious landscape
Measure
Oneonta, NY
New York
United States
Catholic
11.1%
30.8%
18.6%
Evangelical Protestant
5.3%
5.1%
16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted
68.6%
48.7%
51.5%
Mainline Protestant
11.9%
3.8%
5.2%
American Community Survey 2024 5-year (CVAP, income, age, poverty, education, language, race, ancestry) · presidential returns from MIT Election Lab through 2024 · 2020 U.S. Religion Census (ASARB) — congregational adherents; unclaimed is the residual not counted by congregations.
Oneonta, NY
presidential history
Presidential margin, 1892–2024
Democratic minus Republican, by election
Presidential margin over time
Year
Margin (D minus R)
1892
−4.8%
1896
−16.2%
1900
−12.2%
1904
−14.6%
1908
−10.6%
1912
+1.6%
1916
+0.4%
1920
−30.8%
1924
−37.4%
1928
−49.9%
1932
−29.2%
1936
−35.8%
1940
−36.4%
1944
−32.5%
1948
−35.6%
1952
−53.6%
1956
−55.1%
1960
−37.6%
1964
+27.4%
1968
−24.5%
1972
−37.4%
1976
−20.2%
1980
−12.6%
1984
−27.1%
1988
−8.0%
1992
+1.2%
1996
+11.2%
2000
−3.0%
2004
−2.3%
2008
+5.9%
2012
+2.7%
2016
−11.1%
2020
−5.0%
2024
−7.8%
DemocraticRepublican
34 presidential elections
Third column names the leading third-party or independent finisher. Source · MIT Election Lab · ICPSR · VEST (precinct-level 2024). Swing · margin change from the prior cycle. vs U.S. · margin relative to the national result that year.
Year
Won
Democratic
Republican
Other
Margin
Swing
vs U.S.
Total
R
45.8%Harris13,031
53.7%Trump15,256
0.3%Stein83 +7
R+7.8
R+2.8
R+6.4
28,436
All 10 candidates in 2024 · 8 minor / independent
Donald J TrumpRepublican53.7%15,256
Kamala D HarrisDemocratic45.8%13,031
Jill SteinIndependent0.3%83
Chase OliverIndependent0.1%27
Cornel WestIndependent0.0%13
Claudia De La CruzIndependent0.0%10
Peter SonskiIndependent0.0%8
Shiva AyyaduraiIndependent0.0%6
Chris GarrityIndependent0.0%1
Raymond Anthony ScollinIndependent0.0%1
R
46.3%Biden12,975
51.3%Trump14,382
2.3%
R+5.0
D+6.1
R+9.5
28,010
R
40.7%Clinton10,451
51.8%Trump13,308
7.4%
R+11.1
R+13.8
R+13.2
25,668
D
50.2%Obama12,117
47.5%Romney11,461
2.3%
D+2.7
R+3.2
R+1.1
24,139
D
52.0%Obama13,570
46.0%McCain12,026
2.0%
D+5.9
D+8.2
R+1.4
26,121
R
47.7%Kerry12,723
50.1%Bush13,342
2.2%
R+2.3
D+0.7
D+0.1
26,652
R
45.2%Gore11,460
48.2%Bush12,219
6.6%
R+3.0
R+14.2
R+3.5
25,358
D
47.5%Clinton11,470
36.4%Dole8,774
16.1%
D+11.2
D+9.9
D+2.7
24,126
D
39.4%Clinton10,471
38.1%Bush10,141
22.5%
D+1.2
D+9.3
R+4.3
26,606
R
45.5%Dukakis11,069
53.5%Bush13,021
1.0%
R+8.0
D+19.1
R+0.3
24,335
R
36.1%Mondale9,582
63.3%Reagan16,777
0.6%
R+27.1
R+14.5
R+8.9
26,511
R
36.8%Carter8,795
49.4%Reagan11,814
13.8%
R+12.6
D+7.6
R+2.9
23,907
R
39.5%Carter9,787
59.8%Ford14,796
0.7%
R+20.2
D+17.1
R+22.3
24,754
R
31.2%McGovern7,898
68.6%Nixon17,364
0.2%
R+37.4
R+12.9
R+14.2
25,321
R
35.2%Humphrey7,981
59.7%Nixon13,543
5.2%
R+24.5
R+51.9
R+23.8
22,696
D
63.7%Johnson15,190
36.2%Goldwater8,643
0.1%
D+27.4
D+65.0
D+4.9
23,859
R
31.2%Kennedy7,899
68.7%Nixon17,422
0.1%
R+37.6
D+17.5
R+37.7
25,347
R
22.5%Stevenson5,644
77.5%Eisenhower19,484
0.0%
R+55.1
R+1.4
R+39.7
25,128
R
23.1%Stevenson6,115
76.7%Eisenhower20,304
0.1%
R+53.6
R+18.0
R+42.9
26,458
R
30.9%Truman7,174
66.5%Dewey15,437
2.5%
R+35.6
R+3.1
R+40.1
23,197
R
33.7%Roosevelt7,849
66.2%Dewey15,427
0.2%
R+32.5
D+3.9
R+40.0
23,313
R
31.6%Roosevelt7,798
68.0%Willkie16,771
0.3%
R+36.4
R+0.6
R+46.4
24,647
R
31.5%Roosevelt7,807
67.4%Landon16,682
1.1%
R+35.8
R+6.7
R+60.1
24,765
R
34.9%Roosevelt8,114
64.1%Hoover14,904
1.1%
R+29.2
D+20.7
R+47.0
23,265
R
24.4%Smith6,006
74.3%Hoover18,286
1.3%
R+49.9
R+12.5
R+32.4
24,606
R
28.3%Davis5,841
65.7%Coolidge13,573
6.1%
R+37.4
R+6.6
R+12.2
20,670
R
33.1%Cox6,275
63.9%Harding12,112
3.0%
R+30.8
R+31.2
R+4.6
18,961
D
48.6%Wilson5,975
48.2%Hughes5,926
3.3%
D+0.4
R+1.2
R+2.7
12,304
D
42.2%Wilson5,338
40.6%Taft5,138
17.1%
D+1.6
D+12.2
R+18.0
12,641
R
42.7%Bryan5,975
53.4%Taft7,459
3.9%
R+10.6
D+4.0
R+1.1
13,977
R
40.9%Parker5,725
55.4%Roosevelt7,770
3.7%
R+14.6
R+2.4
D+5.1
14,014
R
42.7%Bryan6,142
54.8%McKinley7,893
2.5%
R+12.2
D+4.0
R+4.6
14,394
R
40.2%Bryan5,820
56.4%McKinley8,161
3.4%
R+16.2
R+11.4
R+10.1
14,477
R
44.7%Cleveland6,408
49.5%Harrison7,095
5.8%
R+4.8
—
R+6.5
14,336
Congressional elections · 3 Senate races
U.S. Senate
Source · MIT Election Lab (MEDSL), Senate. CC-BY 4.0.
Year
Won
Democratic
Republican
Total
2024
R
48.5%13,345
50.7%13,956
27,523
2022
R
44.1%9,623
55.2%12,042
21,826
2018
D
53.4%11,453
46.5%9,969
21,429
voter registration
Registered voters
By party of registration, over time
Party registration · 2026R+8.3
vs
Presidential vote · 2024R+7.8
Registration and the presidential vote track closely here — within 0.5 points.
Domestic migration in Oneonta, NY in Oneonta, NY: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−227
2012
−157
2013
−121
2014
−655
2015
−411
2016
−387
2017
−107
2018
+46
2019
−174
2021
+2,737
2022
−42
2023
+220
2024
+125
2025
+42
Oneonta's electorate is noticeably influenced by SUNY Oneonta and Hartwick College, which together bring thousands of students into a Catskill-edge community that would otherwise skew older and more rural.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 27.4 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 55.1 points in 1956. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 2.8 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 7.8 points.
A population of 60,108, a 88% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $68,885 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Cortland, NY and Brattleboro, VT.
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In 2024, Oneonta, NY, New York voted Republican by 7.8 points (R+7.8), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 28,436 votes cast, 13,031 went Democratic and 15,256 went Republican.
When did Oneonta, NY, New York last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Oneonta, NY, New York voted Democratic was 2012.
How many people live in Oneonta, NY, New York?
Oneonta, NY, New York has a population of 60,108 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Oneonta, NY, New York?
Median household income in Oneonta, NY, New York is $68,885 — below the national median of $80,734. The New York state median is $85,974.
What is the political history of Oneonta, NY, New York?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Oneonta, NY, New York from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 7 went Democratic and 27 went Republican.
