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Cortland has 17,450 residents (give or take 22) (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B01003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B01003?g=160XX00US3618388, checked 2026-10-19), about 4,481 people per square mile.
Cortland is about 137 miles from the Census center point for Buffalo in a straight line and covers 3.894 square miles of land (Census 2024 Gazetteer internal points and land area, https://www2.census.gov/geo/docs/maps-data/data/gazetteer/2024_Gazetteer/, checked 2026-10-19).
Of the 7,019 occupied homes in Cortland, 72% heat with natural gas, 1% with heating oil, 24% with electricity and 1% with propane (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=160XX00US3618388, checked 2026-10-19).
Cortland has 11 points less oil heat than Cortland County as a whole, where 12% of homes burn oil, and 6 points more electric heat than the county's 18% (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=050XX00US36023, checked 2026-10-19).
Gas heats 72% of Cortland against electricity at 24%, so most quotes here are a partial-home system that carries the shoulder seasons and the summer while the gas furnace handles the coldest nights, or a whole-home system when the house is ready for it.
Cortland has 7,718 housing units, 42% built before 1940 and 86% before 1980, with 3% built in 2000 or later (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=160XX00US3618388, checked 2026-10-19).
The median Cortland home was built in 1947 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25035, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25035?g=160XX00US3618388, checked 2026-10-19) and the median home has 5.7 rooms (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25018, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25018?g=160XX00US3618388, checked 2026-10-19).
Cortland has 9 points more pre-1940 homes than Cortland County as a whole (33%) and 5 points fewer homes built after 2000 than the county's 8% (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=050XX00US36023, checked 2026-10-19). An older stock means more insulation upgrades before the heat pump goes in.
44% of Cortland homes are single-family detached, 33% are in two- to four-unit buildings and 20% are in buildings of five or more units (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25024, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25024?g=160XX00US3618388, checked 2026-10-19).
54% of Cortland homes are rented (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25003?g=160XX00US3618388, checked 2026-10-19), so beside the 44% detached houses there is a real share of jobs where the landlord, not the resident, signs the quote.