Population
23312
Students
9966
Employees
Financials
| $1B | Payroll |
| $365M | Student spending* |
| $37M | Visitor spending |
| $183M | Purchasing in Tompkins and adjacent counties (by location of vendor). |
| $113M | Construction spending in Tompkins and adjacent counties (by location of prime contractor). |
| $7.34M | Contributions to local governments, Ithaca City School District, nonprofit organizations and public transit. |
| $4.6M | Property taxes paid directly by Cornell and by lessees for activity on Cornell-owned land. Taxes paid on Cornell-related properties ranks third in Tompkins County. |
| $5.1M | Municipal fees paid (water, sewer, storm water: $2.4 million; other: $2.7 million). Cornell operates its own water system for most of the campus and serves as a backup to municipal water systems. |
| $328M | Federal, state and corporate research funding spent locally. |
| $700K | Cornell’s United Way goal, which is 35% of the countywide campaign. |
| $8.1M | Venture capital raised in 2020 by the companies of Rev: Ithaca Startup Works, founded by Cornell (with Ithaca College and Tompkins Cortland Community College). Rev companies created 155 new local jobs in 2020. |
| $4.3M | Venture capital and investments raised by Cornell’s McGovern Family Center for Venture Development in the Life Sciences’ Ithaca-based clients in 2020. These companies created 10 new local jobs in 2020. |
NOTES: Numbers for students, employees and payroll are for Cornell’s Ithaca campus only. Data points other than REV and McGovern are Cornell Fiscal Year, July 1, 2019-June 30, 2020. *Student spending: FY20 figure updates multiple factors, such as student growth and current expense levels, which had not been revised since 2015. 2015-2019 conservatively used CPI to calculate annual increase.