City Profile / Syracuse, NY

Syracuse, NY

Onondaga County · Census place 3673000 · NYS SWIS 311500

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City land area
64.9 km²
Census 2020
ZIP areas (ZCTAs)
11 core
+ 3 fringe, shown but not counted
Registered vehicles
75,754
82% passenger class · core ZIPs
Electric share
1.0%
793 with fuel type ELECTRIC. Hybrids not identifiable.
Average vehicle age
9.0 yrs
By model year · median model year 2018
Tax parcels
41,575
City limits · 2025 assessment roll
Median residential value
$128,696
Assessor's full market value, 32,249 residential parcels
Commercial parcels owned by businesses
61%
2,578 of 4,230 · who owns
Active businesses
15,557
For-profit entities registered with NY DOS, core ZIPs (+1,877 not-for-profits)
New businesses 2025
961
Filed in 2025 and still active
Licensed auto facilities
304
169 repair shops · 97 inspection · 175 dealers (active DMV licences)
Population
146,384
± 135 · city limits · ACS 2020–2024 estimate
Households
59,816
± 842 · ACS estimate
Median household income
$47,819
± $2,145 · 2024 dollars

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Registered vehicles in core ZIPs

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Vehicles newly registered per month

ORIGINAL registrations (new or used purchases, or vehicles moved in) in core ZIPs, Nov 2024–Oct 2026

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Electric share of these registrations: 1.1% (Nov 2025–Oct 2026, n=14,962) vs 1.3% the year before (n=15,558).

Source: NYS DMV registrations snapshot 2026-11-03 (data.ny.gov w4pv-hbkt) and registration transactions (s2dd-yksa). Counted at the owner's mailing ZIP, so business fleets count where they are registered. See Sources & limits.

Business formation by year

For-profit entities filed with NY DOS that are still active, core ZIPs. Entities that dissolved are not in the data, so older years are undercounted by construction.

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Source: NY Department of State, Active Corporations (n9v6-gdp6), as of 2026-11-03. Entities are placed by their service-of-process address (99%) or, if that is outside the city ZIPs, their location address. A process address may be a lawyer or agent, not the business itself.

Check: DMV registrations vs Census household vehicles

DMV counts every registered vehicle at its owner's mailing ZIP (November 2026 snapshot). The Census counts vehicles available to households (ACS 2020–2024, table B25046), which leaves out business and government fleets. Passenger-class registrations should therefore be close to, and usually a bit below, the Census figure: cars registered out of state (e.g. students) and company cars kept at home count for the Census but not as local passenger registrations.

ZIPCensus household vehicles DMV passenger registrationsRatio DMV all vehiclesHouseholds without a vehicle
13202 2,373 ± 397 2,305 0.97 6,343 42%
13203 8,674 ± 979 6,398 0.74 7,015 29%
13204 9,227 ± 689 8,253 0.89 9,730 27%
13205 7,691 ± 692 7,249 0.94 8,497 28%
13206 10,625 ± 994 9,367 0.88 11,100 13%
13207 7,058 ± 546 6,745 0.96 7,325 15%
13208 10,522 ± 1,132 9,973 0.95 11,634 26%
13210 8,827 ± 854 6,246 0.71 8,176 30%
13224 5,246 ± 668 5,116 0.98 5,646 13%
13244 not estimated 112 — 283 —
13290 not estimated 5 — 5 —
Core ZIPs70,243 61,652 0.88

Census figures are survey estimates with 90% margins of error (±). ZIPs with fewer than 500 households (13244 campus, 13290) are not compared.

ZIP areas that overlap the city

From the Census 2020 ZCTA-to-Place relationship file. A ZIP is core when at least 40% of its land lies inside the city limits. Core ZIPs together cover 96.4% of the city's land. Rates are not shown for ZIPs with fewer than 100 vehicles. Parcel columns count only parcels inside the city limits; medians need at least 20 residential parcels. Population and income are Census ACS estimates for the whole ZIP area (including parts outside the city).

ZIPStatus Share of ZIP in city Vehicles Electric Avg age 10+ years old Parcels Median res. value Businesses Repair shops Population Median HH income
13202 Core 100% 6,343 1.6% 6.9 yrs 23% 1,003 $111,304 4,120 4 7,098 $27,000
13203 Core 100% 7,015 1.1% 9.6 yrs 42% 3,941 $118,261 1,483 10 16,180 $46,997
13204 Core 100% 9,730 0.8% 9.2 yrs 41% 6,529 $104,348 2,076 53 19,440 $45,351
13205 Core 89% 8,497 0.5% 9.6 yrs 43% 5,485 $86,957 1,026 10 19,137 $38,497
13206 Core 48% 11,100 0.7% 8.6 yrs 36% 4,963 $144,348 1,942 27 16,245 $63,136
13207 Core 100% 7,325 1.1% 9.2 yrs 39% 5,136 $113,565 747 3 12,290 $60,720
13208 Core 60% 11,634 0.5% 9.2 yrs 41% 5,807 $113,043 1,592 36 22,993 $44,712
13210 Core 95% 8,176 1.9% 9.4 yrs 40% 4,840 $200,000 1,709 17 19,803 $41,738
13224 Core 68% 5,646 2.2% 8.4 yrs 34% 2,513 $164,348 813 9 8,659 $76,500
13244 Core 81% 283 2.1% 7.7 yrs 33% 29 — 16 0 9,683 —
13290 Core 100% 5 — — — 11 — 33 0 0 —
13214 Fringe 15% 5,675 1.6% 8.1 yrs 31% 699 $213,913 1,304 9 8,702 $98,000
13215 Fringe 1% 11,908 1.3% 8.4 yrs 28% 222 $266,087 1,231 0 14,751 $113,864
13219 Fringe 3% 11,980 0.9% 8.1 yrs 30% 76 $170,957 1,194 10 14,744 $85,149