Compare New York sheriff department costs
Sheriff department cost and staffing across all 57 counties. Click a column header to sort. Hover a column header to see what it measures. Data as of 2026-08-12.
| County | Population | Budget | $/resident | Sworn / 100k res | Custody / 100k res | Beds / 100k res |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Albany County | 315,041 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Allegany County | 47,222 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Broome County | 198,365 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Cattaraugus County | 77,000 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Cayuga County | 76,171 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Chautauqua County | 127,440 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Chemung County | 83,584 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Chenango County | 47,096 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Clinton County | 79,839 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Columbia County | 61,469 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Cortland County | 46,755 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Delaware County | 44,637 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Dutchess County | 296,467 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Erie County | 951,232 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Essex County | 37,314 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Franklin County | 47,459 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Fulton County | 53,280 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Genesee County | 58,204 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Greene County | 48,067 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Hamilton County | 5,090 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Herkimer County | 60,293 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Jefferson County | 117,445 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Lewis County | 26,690 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Livingston County | 61,980 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Madison County | 68,020 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Monroe County | 756,406 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Montgomery County | 49,624 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Nassau County | 1,389,160 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Niagara County | 212,230 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Oneida County | 231,055 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Onondaga County | 472,637 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Ontario County | 112,288 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Orange County | 401,237 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Orleans County | 40,148 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Oswego County | 118,037 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Otsego County | 59,678 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Putnam County | 97,942 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Rensselaer County | 160,943 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Rockland County | 337,326 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Saratoga County | 236,328 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Schenectady County | 159,447 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Schoharie County | 29,970 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Schuyler County | 17,855 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Seneca County | 33,651 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Steuben County | 93,584 | — | — | — | — | — |
| St. Lawrence County | 108,670 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Suffolk County | 1,524,486 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sullivan County | 78,725 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Tioga County | 48,344 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Tompkins County | 102,555 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Ulster County | 182,153 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Warren County | 65,684 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Washington County | 61,310 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Wayne County | 91,324 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Westchester County | 997,904 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Wyoming County | 40,338 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Yates County | 24,713 | — | — | — | — | — |
A note on data vintages and definitions. Population is the US Census Bureau's 2018-2022 American Community Survey 5-year estimate. Sheriff staffing is not currently loaded for New York, so the staffing columns show a dash throughout this table. They previously carried the US Census Bureau's Census of Governments Employment 2022 figure, which counts a county government's police protection and corrections employment by function code rather than by agency. That total includes the county probation department, the coroner and the crime lab, and it excludes the sheriff's own court services staff, so it does not describe a sheriff's office. Staffing will return here when a county-published figure is loaded. County jail data has not yet been loaded for New York, so the jail column shows "—" for every county. The New York State Commission of Correction certifies county jails but does not itself publish a downloadable facility roster; the state's Division of Criminal Justice Services publishes an annual county-by-county jail population count, but that figure is a census of inmates held rather than a rated capacity. Sheriff department budget data has not yet been loaded for New York. Sheriff names were collected from the New York State Sheriffs' Association directory and machine-verified against county sources in July 2026. The five New York City counties (the Bronx, Kings, New York, Queens, and Richmond) list the same name, Edwin Raymond, because the boroughs have shared one Mayor-appointed Sheriff since a 1942 consolidation rather than five separately elected sheriffs; Seneca County's listing reflects an Acting Sheriff rather than an elected incumbent.