Emergency Crime Scene and Biohazard Cleanup in Cortland, NY

Cortland is a city in central New York and the county seat of Cortland County, set in New York's Southern Tier, and it is known as the 'Crown City.'

Cortland is also called the 'City of Seven Valleys' for its setting among the hills and valleys of central New York.

The area was first settled in 1791; Cortland was incorporated as a village in 1853 and was incorporated as a city in 1900.

The city of Cortland is completely surrounded by the town of Cortlandville.

The 2020 census counted 17,556 residents in Cortland, down from 19,204 in 2010.

Census Bureau figures for 2020-2024 put Cortland at about 7,019 households, averaging 2.05 persons per household.

SUNY Cortland, the city's public university, was founded in 1868 as the Cortland Normal School, a teacher-training school, and became a founding member of the State University of New York system in 1948.

The university's original downtown campus was destroyed by fire in 1919 and its present campus opened in 1923; among the normal school's earliest students was inventor and industrialist Elmer A. Sperry, of Sperry-Rand fame.

Data USA put Cortland's median age at just 27.4 years in 2024, a youthful figure reflecting the city's identity as a college town, with a median household income of $59,482 and a homeownership rate of 45.9%.

Cortland was the home of the Brockway Motor Company, a builder of custom heavy-duty trucks from 1912 to 1977 that grew out of the Brockway Carriage Works founded in 1875.