Greene County, New York: commercial real estate data.

Greene County

How many people live in Greene County

• Population, American Community Survey 2020-202447,409
• Households18,674
• Average household size2.54
• Median household income$77,945
• Median age47.4
• Median gross rent$1,004 per month
• Median owner-occupied home value$271,600
• Home value to household income3.5 times
• Annual rent as a share of median income15.5 percent
• Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher29.9 percent
• Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree11.9 percent
• Adults 25 and over36,522
• Population under 187,671
• Share under 1816.2 percent
• Population 65 and over11,442
• Share 65 and over24.1 percent
• Working age population, 18 to 6428,296
• Civilian labor force22,735
• Unemployment rate3.9 percent
• Labor force participation, adults 18 and over57.2 percent
• Rank by population among New York counties48th of 62
• Rank by population among US county-equivalents, Puerto Rico included1053rd of 3,222

Greene County is the 48th largest of 62 New York counties by population. A median home costs 3.5 times median household income, which is moderately unaffordable by national standards. Residents 65 and over outnumber those under 18, at 24.1 percent against 16.2 percent, which points demand at health care, services and single story product rather than schools.

US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, 2020-2024 5-year.

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Where are people moving to Greene County from?

• Tax returns filed by households arriving1,316
• People arriving, from those returns2,108
• Tax returns filed by households leaving1,428
• Net household movement-112
• Adjusted gross income arriving$123.2 m
• Net adjusted gross income movement$18.8 m
• Average income of an arriving household$93,650
• Average income of a leaving household$73,143
• Largest single originUlster County (183 households)
• Largest single destinationAlbany County (245 households)

Households arriving report $20,507 more average income than households leaving, so the migration is raising local spending power rather than just moving it around. The largest single source of arrivals is Ulster County, which is the catchment a retail or multifamily study should look at first.

US Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income county migration flows, 2021 to 2022 filing years.

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Employment by industry in Greene County

• Covered employment, annual average14,167
• Establishments reporting1,372
• Average annual pay$61,727
• Average weekly wage$1,187
• Retail trade, employment2,184
• Retail trade, average annual pay$37,019
• Accommodation and food services, employment1,898
• Accommodation and food services, average annual pay$31,148
• Manufacturing, employment992
• Manufacturing, average annual pay$77,857
• Health care and social assistance, employment970
• Health care and social assistance, average annual pay$58,316
• Arts, entertainment and recreation, employment753
• Wholesale trade, employment717

Retail trade is the largest private sector at 2,184 jobs, 15.4 percent of covered employment.

US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2024 annual averages.

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Building permits in Greene County

• Housing units authorized by permit, 2024112
• Declared construction value permitted$33.3 m
• Single family units authorized103
• Multifamily units authorized9
• Multifamily share of units8.0 percent
• Average declared value per unit$297,393
• Units authorized per 1,000 households6.0

Single-family homes are 92.0 percent of units authorized, so the pipeline is predominantly single-family.

US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, 2024 annual.

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SBA loan default and charge-off rates in Greene County

Do SBA loans in Greene County get paid back?

• Loans with a final outcome recorded7
• Paid in full7
• Charged off0
• Status: Exempt from disclosure22
• Status: Paid in full7
• Status: Cancelled10
• Status: Committed, not yet disbursed2

Only 7 loans have reached a final outcome, fewer than the 30 a charge-off rate needs, so no rate is published.

Compare against the national and state SBA charge-off rates, computed the same way over resolved loans only.

US Small Business Administration, 7(a) FOIA release, FY2020 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.

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How large is Greene County?

• Land area647 sq mi
• Rank by land area among New York counties33rd of 62
• Width, east to west38.6 mi
• Height, north to south25.4 mi
• Geographies sharing a boundary5
• Residents per square mile of land73
• Establishments per square mile1.86

US Census Bureau county boundary geometry, TIGER, adjacency computed from shared boundary vertices, TIGER county boundaries. US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, 2020-2024 5-year. US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, 2023.

Feasibility studies

When a Greene County site needs a document a lender will accept.

The same data layer behind this page is the one the studies are written from. A study for a Greene County site starts with the figures you are reading, carrying the same source and period into the credit file.

• Population, American Community Survey 2020-202447,409
• Households18,674
• Average household size2.54
• Median household income$77,945
• Median age47.4

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Cities and places in Greene.

20 Census places lie wholly or partly in Greene County. All 20 carry enough published place level data for a page of their own and are linked.

A further 9 of the county's 41 SBA 7(a) approvals are to borrowers in cities that match no Census place in Greene County, the largest being Durham (2), Freehold (2), West Coxsackie (2). Those are postal cities, unincorporated areas and cities outside the county, so no place row claims them; they are counted in the county total above.