Lansing is a

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in Tompkins County,

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, United States, and a suburb of Ithaca. The population was 3,648 at the 2020 census. The Village of Lansing is in the Town of Lansing and is located just north of the City of Ithaca.

History

The Village of Lansing was incorporated in 1974. The area was formerly within the territory of the

Cayuga tribe The Cayuga ( Cayuga: Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫʼ, "People of the Great Swamp") are one of the five original constituents of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois), a confederacy of Native Americans in New York. The Cayuga homeland lies in the Finger Lakes regio ...

and later became part of the

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. Ithaca Tompkins International Airport is located partially in the eastern part of the village.

Geography

The village is located at (42.487688, -76.486075). According to the

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, the village has a total area of 4.6 square miles (12.0 km²), of which 4.6 square miles (11.9 km²) of it is land and 0.22% is water. The village is at the south end of

Cayuga Lake Cayuga Lake (, or ) is the longest of central New York's glacial Finger Lakes, and is the second largest in surface area (marginally smaller than Seneca Lake) and second largest in volume. It is just under long. Its average width is , and i ...

. It borders the Towns of Dryden and Ithaca and the Village of Cayuga Heights. New York State Route 13 passes across the village, joining

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, which passes down the west side of the village, south of the village line.

Demographics

As of the

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of 2000, there were 3,417 people, 1,620 households, and 808 families residing in the village. The population density was . There were 1,705 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the village was 68.01%

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, 5.12%

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, 0.23% Native American, 22.51% Asian, 0.06%

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, 1.40% from other races, and 2.66% from two or more races.

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or Latino of any race were 3.54% of the population. There were 1,620 households, out of which 23.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 41.4% were

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living together, 6.0% had a female householder with no husband present, and 50.1% were non-families. 38.8% of all households were made up of individuals, and 6.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.06, and the average family size was 2.82. In the village, the population was spread out, with 18.9% under the age of 18, 11.4% from 18 to 24, 41.1% from 25 to 44, 19.3% from 45 to 64, and 9.3% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 32 years. For every 100 females, there were 101.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 99.0 males. The median income for a household in the village was $38,185, and the median income for a family was $48,167. Males had a median income of $41,650 versus $31,181 for females. The

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for the village was $29,047. About 9.5% of families and 12.3% of the population were below the

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, including 18.5% of those under age 18 and 1.6% of those age 65 or over.

Education

Much of the Village of Lansing is in the Ithaca City School District, while other portions are in Lansing Central School District.
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/ref> The zoned comprehensive high school of the Ithaca district is Ithaca High School.

Notable people

Karel Husa Karel Husa (August 7, 1921 – December 14, 2016) was a Czech-born classical composer and conductor, winner of the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for Music and 1993 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition. In 1954, he emigrated to ...

– classical composer, conductor, professor at

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, and

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winner * Thomas D. O'Rourke – educator, engineer, and professor at Cornell University's College of Engineering * Roy H. Park Jr. – son of Roy H. Park and philanthropist, who serves as chairman and president of the Triad Foundation

References

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* {{authority control 1974 establishments in New York (state) Populated places established in 1974 Villages in Tompkins County, New York Villages in New York (state)