Population
25805
Students
10968
Employees
Financials
| $1.18B | Payroll |
| $470M | Student spending |
| $78M | Visitor spending |
| $147M | Purchasing in Tompkins County and adjacent counties (by location of vendor). |
| $77M | Construction spending in Tompkins County and adjacent counties (by location of prime contractor). |
| $7M | Local contributions to governments, Ithaca City School District, non-profit organizations, and public transit support. |
| $4.9M | Property taxes generated (school taxes $3.2 million, municipal taxes $1.7 million). Taxes paid on Cornell-related properties rank second in Tompkins County. |
| $4M | Municipal fees (water, sewer, storm water $2.6 million; other $1.7 million). Cornell operates its own water system for most of the campus and serves as a backup to municipal water systems. |
| $388M | External federal, state and corporate research funding spent locally. |
| $28.5M | Capital raised in 2023 by the companies of Rev: Ithaca Startup Works, founded by Cornell (with Ithaca College and Tompkins Cortland Community College). Rev companies created 47 new jobs in 2023. |
| $3.9M | Capital raised by Cornell’s Center for Life Science Ventures’ Ithaca-based clients in 2023. These companies created 8 new local jobs in 2023, total of 31 local jobs. |
| $8.7M | Capital raised by Cornell’s Praxis Center for Venture Development Ithaca based clients in 2023. These companies provide 27 local jobs. |
NOTE: Numbers for students, employees, and payroll are for Cornell’s Ithaca Campus only. Data points other than REV, Center for Life Sciences, and Praxis are Cornell Fiscal Year, July 1, 2022-June 30, 2023.