Cayuga County, New York

Founding: 1799
Parent county: Onondaga
Namesake: The Cayuga people
Seat: Aurora (1799–1805); Auburn (1805–)
Land area: 692 square miles
Population (2020): 76,248
Population (historic): 15,871 (1800); 50,338 (1840); 59,550 (1870); 66,234 (1900); 64,751 (1930)
Periods of population growth: pre-1800–1910; 1930–1990
Subdivisions: One city; nine villages; one CDP; 23 towns
Pre-1940 residences (estimated): 14,265 (38.5%)
Pre-1940 housing survival rate: 78.6%
Pre-1860 housing survival rate (1940): 33.6%

Farm housing in disrepair (1950): 8%

Nonfarm housing in disrepair (1950): 4.7%
Average farmhouse value (1930): $1,802
Average outbuilding value (1930): $1,874

Average farmhouse size (1940): 8 rooms
Number of farms (1920): 4,297
Average farm size (1920): 72.5 acres
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Auburn

 
Namesake: The fictional town of Auburn in Oliver Goldsmith's poem The Deserted Village
Founding: 1790s (founding); 1815 (incorporation); 1818 (post office)
Population (2020): 26,866
Population (historic): 500 (1810); 5,626 (1840); 17,225 (1870); 30,345 (1900); 36,652 (1930)
Periods of population growth: pre-1810–1930; 1940s
Pre-1940 residences (estimated): 6,505 (50.6%)
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