Housing data for the eight counties of the Southern Tier 8 Region —
affordability, population, jobs, households and the housing stock
itself — brought together to show how much new housing the region
needs and who it needs to reach.
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$95,522
Median income
(Census ACS 2024)
572,230
Population
(2026 estimate)
219,954
Jobs
(LODES 2023)
6,520
Recent building permits
(previous 5 years, Census BPS)
How affordable is the Southern Tier?
Whether housing prices are keeping pace with local incomes. The gap between what homes cost and what households can actually afford is the clearest single read on housing pressure.
Home prices against local incomes
How is the population changing?
Population by age group, measured back to 2010 and projected forward. Where the age curve moves tells us which housing types will be needed, and when.
Population by age group
How is the job market changing?
Job counts over time, by sector, and what those jobs pay. Comparing across the region shows where employment is concentrating.
Total jobs
How are households changing by income?
Which income groups are growing and which are shrinking. This is what identifies the households facing the most pressure, and the income bands new housing most needs to reach.
Household growth by income group
Who lives here today?
Household size, structure and cost burden. Comparing how households are composed against the housing available to them shows how well the two line up.
Household characteristics by income
What does the housing stock look like?
What has been built, when it was built, how much of it sits empty and what is on the market right now.
Housing stock by tenure
How much new housing does the region need?
To keep pace with growth and clear the shortfall in what already exists, the Southern Tier 8 Region needs 4,271 new units over the next five years.
2,187
Replacement housing
Covering homes lost from the stock each year.
4,271
Units to address shortages in existing housing stock
Production needed to bring vacancy rates back into balance.
4,271
Total five-year housing production need (2026–2031)
About this data
These charts are produced and hosted by CommunityScale and update
automatically as their data pipelines refresh. The underlying figures
come from public sources including the Census Bureau and American
Community Survey, HUD, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, LEHD LODES and
the Building Permit Survey, alongside commercial listing data.
CommunityScale Housing Forecast (2025). Housing needs analysis and population projection tool.
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