Population
25084
Students
10203
Employees
Financials
| $1.05B | Payroll |
| $428M | Student spending |
| $410K | Visitor spending |
| $484M | Purchasing in Tompkins County and adjacent counties (by location of vendor). |
| $152M | Construction spending in Tompkins County and adjacent counties (by location of prime contractor). |
| $6.5M | Local contributions to governments, Ithaca City School District, non-profit organizations, and public transit support. |
| $4.7M | Property taxes generated (school taxes $2.3 million, municipal taxes $1.3 million). Taxes paid on Cornell-related properties rank third in Tompkins County. |
| $3.4M | Municipal fees (water, sewer, storm water $2.5 million; other $1 million). Cornell operates its own water system for most of the campus and serves as a backup to municipal water systems. |
| $328M | External federal, state and corporate research funding spent locally. |
| $24.2M | Venture capital raised in 2021 by the companies of Rev: Ithaca Startup Works, founded by Cornell (with Ithaca College and Tompkins Cortland Community College). Rev companies created 102 new local jobs in 2021. |
| $13.6M | Venture capital and investments raised by Cornell’s McGovern Family Center for Venture Development’s Ithaca-based clients in 2021. These companies created 9 new local jobs in 2021, total of 61 local jobs. |
NOTE: 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, 2020-June 30, 2021.