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state house district

New York 61st State House District

Contests in this Place (44 available)

President38 · 1876–2024 · 3 mapped

▦ precinct · ▥ counties · ▢ no spatial detail

President margin by year

Place winner margin

1876–2024 · D minus R

Full record · 1876 → 2024

2024

Boundary by 2024 margin · Precinct returns · VEST · MIT Election Lab

The precinct map shows the 2024 presidential vote; the timeline scrubs the district’s overall result across 1892–2024, on its current boundaries.

People and households

Who lives here

Exact values for this place, its state, and the United States.

Race · ethnicity · ancestry

Communities and origins

Italian10.6%10.9%4.8%

Irish5.6%10.5%9.4%

American3.3%4.2%5.3%

German3.0%8.6%12.5%

Polish2.2%3.9%2.2%

English2.2%5.6%9.5%

Russian2.0%1.2%—

Ukrainian0.7%——

Puerto Rican9.5%5.1%1.8%

Dominican7.7%4.6%0.7%

Mexican4.7%2.5%11.3%

Ecuadorian1.3%1.6%—

Cuban1.0%—0.7%

Colombian1.0%0.9%0.4%

Honduran0.6%0.3%0.3%

Guatemalan0.4%0.5%0.5%

African American†15.9%8.0%9.9%

Jamaican1.6%1.6%0.4%

African1.4%0.6%0.5%

Haitian0.8%0.9%0.3%

Nigerian0.8%0.2%0.2%

Trinidadian and Tobagonian0.8%0.4%—

West Indian0.6%0.4%—

Liberian0.4%——

Chinese6.4%3.6%1.3%

Asian Indian1.4%1.9%1.4%

Filipino0.7%0.6%0.9%

Korean0.6%0.6%0.4%

Pakistani0.5%0.4%—

Japanese0.3%0.2%0.2%

Sri Lankan0.3%——

Bangladeshi0.2%0.6%—

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	NY HD 61	New York	United States
Median age	36.1	39.9	39.1
Age 18–24	8.3%	9.0%	9.2%
Age 65 and older	17.4%	18.0%	17.2%

Household economy

Measure	NY HD 61	New York	United States
Median household income	$100,950	$85,974	$84,427
Poverty rate	16.8%	14.0%	12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)	48.0%	40.0%	35.6%

Housing and tenure

Measure	NY HD 61	New York	United States
Owner-occupied homes	44.9%	54.3%	65.2%
Renter-occupied homes	55.1%	45.7%	34.8%
Median home value	$626,700	$423,800	$332,700
Median gross rent (monthly)	$1,993	$1,621	$1,413
Renters paying 30%+ of income	53.3%	52.1%	51.1%
Vacant housing units	12.0%	10.0%	10.1%

Getting to work

Measure	NY HD 61	New York	United States
Mean commute	38.5 min	32.6 min	26.4 min
Commutes 60 minutes or more	24.1%	16.8%	8.6%
Drives alone to work	34.8%	48.8%	68.8%
Takes public transit	31.8%	21.6%	3.2%
Works from home	13.0%	14.9%	15.1%

Languages at home

Measure	NY HD 61	New York	United States
Speaks a non-English language at home	37.4%	30.9%	22.3%
Spanish	14.6%	14.8%	13.6%
Russian, Polish, or other Slavic	4.2%	2.0%	0.7%
Other Indo-European	4.6%	4.0%	2.0%
Chinese (incl. Mandarin & Cantonese)	6.2%	3.2%	1.1%

Religious landscape

Measure	NY HD 61	New York	United States
Catholic	—	30.8%	18.6%
Evangelical Protestant	—	5.1%	16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted	—	48.7%	51.5%

Origins and service

Measure	NY HD 61	New York	United States
Foreign-born residents	26.7%	22.8%	14.1%
Naturalized citizens	15.0%	13.6%	7.4%
Not U.S. citizens	11.7%	9.2%	6.8%
Veterans (18+)	1.8%	3.7%	6.2%
Income inequality (Gini)	0.548	0.517	0.483

American Community Survey 2024 5-year (CVAP, income, age, poverty, education, language, race, ancestry) · 2020 U.S. Religion Census (ASARB) — congregational adherents; unclaimed is the residual not counted by congregations · American Community Survey 2024 — housing and tenure (B25003, B25002, B25077, B25064, B25070), commuting (B08013, B08303, B08301), origins and service (B05002, B21001, B19083).

President results by year

Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries

HarrisDemocratic63.2%27,767TrumpRepublican35.7%15,685OtherAll other candidates1.1%469

D+27.5

Lead: 12,082
Total: 43,921
vs nation: D+29.0

modeled Census-place estimatereview required

BidenDemocratic70.7%35,193TrumpRepublican28.3%14,107OtherAll other candidates1.0%484

D+42.4

Lead: 21,086
Total: 49,784
vs nation: D+37.9