Industry	Businesses	Jobs	Payroll
Real estate	122	637	$31.9M
Lessors of real estate	77	439	$19.6M
Activities related to real estate	24	147	$9.5M
Offices of real estate agents and brokers	21	51	$2.8M
Rental and leasing services	10	51	$3.4M
Automotive equipment rental and leasing	4	17	$767K
Consumer goods rental	5	9	$625K

Businesses by number of employees

under 5 employees94 businesses
5–9 employees24 businesses
10–19 employees10 businesses
20–49 employees5 businesses

Census County Business Patterns 2023, places with employees. Blank jobs and payroll are withheld by the Census to protect single firms.

For the whole county’s housing and real estate sector (Census County Business Patterns and Economic Census). Spending and market size →

Income-restricted and assisted housing

21 properties with 1,434 homes, 1,069 of them income-restricted or assisted.

Property	Address	Program	Homes	Restricted or assisted	Serves
Titus Towers	800 S Plain St, Ithaca	Public housing (Ithaca Housing Authority)	235	235
West Village Apts (a/k/a	West Village Pl, Ithaca	Low-income housing tax credit	229	0
Ellis Hollow Apts (2006)	1028 Ellis Hollow Rd, Ithaca	Low-income housing tax credit	104	91	seniors, families
Milton Meadows Apartments (2019)	2 Robins Way, Lansing	Low-income housing tax credit	72	56
Conifer Village at Ithaca Senior Apts (2008)	200 Conifer Dr, Ithaca	Low-income housing tax credit	72	36	seniors
Poets Landing Apts (2013)	32 Keats Way, Dryden	Low-income housing tax credit	72	72
Linderman Creek II Apts (2003)	202 Cypress Ct, Ithaca	Low-income housing tax credit	72	72	families
The Overlook at West Hill Phase II (2007)	340 W Hill Cir, Ithaca	Low-income housing tax credit	64	64	families
The Overlook at West Hill I (2006)	120 W Hill Cir, Ithaca	Low-income housing tax credit	64	64	families
210 Hancock Street Redevelopment (2016)	210 Hancock St, Ithaca	Low-income housing tax credit	59	47
Linderman Creek Apts (2000)	104 Conifer Cir, Ithaca	Low-income housing tax credit	56	56	families
Poets Landing Phase II 2015 (2017)	3 Whitman Lane, Dryden	Low-income housing tax credit	48	48
Juniper Manor	24 Elm Street, Trumansburg	HUD-assisted (515/8 NC)	40	40	seniors
Cedar Creek (2009)	310 Floral Ave, Ithaca	Low-income housing tax credit	39	39	families, people with disabilities
Breckenridge Place (2013)	100 W Seneca St, Ithaca	Low-income housing tax credit	39	0	people with disabilities
Ithaca Special Needs Sro (2008)	320 Third St, Ithaca	Low-income housing tax credit	38	38	people with disabilities
Stone Quarry Apartments Ithaca (2015)	400 - 406 Spencer Road Bldg a, Ithaca	Low-income housing tax credit	35	29	seniors, families, people with disabilities
School House Garden (1992)	177 Main St, Groton	Low-income housing tax credit	28	28	seniors
Lehigh Crossing (2008)	15 Cook St, Freeville	Low-income housing tax credit	24	24	seniors
Trumansburg Country Estates (2004)	1110 Parkside Dr, Trumansburg	Low-income housing tax credit	24	24	families
Juniper Manor II (1991)	20 Elm St, Trumansburg	Low-income housing tax credit	20	6	seniors

From HUD: the low-income housing tax credit database (year placed in service in brackets), HUD-assisted multifamily properties and public housing developments. A property can be in more than one program, so totals may count homes twice. For openings, call the property or the housing authority.

Fair Market Rents

Studio	1 bedroom	2 bedrooms	3 bedrooms	4 bedrooms
$1,263	$1,466	$1,753	$2,102	$2,624

HUD’s Fair Market Rents for Ithaca, NY MSA (rent plus utilities, the current federal fiscal year), used for Housing Choice Vouchers and many programs. Not an average of listings.

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