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Auto repair shops in Otsego County, NY
How Otsego County, NY compares with other counties and the U.S. for auto repair shops: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score · out of 100
Score 32 out of 100: Lower middle
Ranked #1,948 of 2,378 scored counties
#28 of 61 scored counties in New York
- Listings
- 55
- 13 chain locations (24%)
- Official establishments
- 29
- 0.0% since 2019
- Household spending a year
- $19.2M
- On vehicle maintenance and repairs · $827 a household
- Spending per listing
- $349K
- 22% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 23.7
- 10% above the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 60,589
- +3.8% since 2020
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What this means
For auto repair shops, Otsego County has a Groundwork market score of 32 (lower middle): #1,948 of 2,378 scored counties and #28 of 61 scored counties in New York. That puts it in the bottom quarter of counties.
Map listings as of September 2026 show 55 auto repair shops in Otsego County. Chain locations make up 24% of them, against 16% across the U.S. Per 10,000 households, that is 23.7, 10% above the U.S. rate of 21.5.
At $827 per household (14% below the U.S. average), households in Otsego County spend about $19.2M a year on vehicle maintenance and repairs. That is about $349K of household spending for each shop on map listings, 22% below the U.S. figure of $445K. That spending covers all vehicle maintenance and repairs, which auto repair shops share with other businesses in the trade.
Official counts show 29 businesses with payroll classed as mechanical, body and glass repair in Otsego County in 2023, unchanged from 2019. That is one for every 800 households, against one for every 955 across the U.S. Since fiscal 2022, 1 SBA-backed loan worth $280K has gone to businesses classed as mechanical, body and glass repair in Otsego County. Between 2020 and 2025, the population of Otsego County grew 3.8%, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%).
How Otsego County compares
The same measures for New York and the whole U.S. Spending per listing divides a year of household spending on all vehicle maintenance and repairs by the auto repair shops counted, so it measures the demand for each competitor, not any business’s revenue. Households per establishment does the same with the official count.
| Measure | Otsego County | New York | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 23.7 | 16.3 | 21.5 |
| Spending per listing | $349K | $395K | $445K |
| Households per official establishment | 800 | 970 | 955 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | 0.0% | −3.2% | +2.1% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +3.8% | −0.6% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on vehicle maintenance and repairs | $827 | $642 | $958 |
| Median household income | $68,885 | $85,974 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 32 | 20 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 29 → 290.0% over the period
- Employees, 2023
- 97
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $4.4M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 52Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 5513 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 43The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 1
- Amount
- $280K
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as mechanical, body and glass repair in Otsego County, through June 2026, placed by the borrower’s ZIP code. Official establishments are businesses with payroll; the official counts leave out places with fewer than 3.
Population and households in Otsego County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 60,589+3.8% since 2020
- Households
- 23,189
- Median age
- 41.9
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 74%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.7
- Land area
- 1,002 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 60
- Median household income
- $68,885+27.5% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $91,075
- Median home value
- $179,100
- Jobs located here
- 21,315
- Daytime population
- 56,903Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top counties in New York
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Saratoga County, NY | 67 | 143 | 14.0 | $652K | +2.3% | #452 of 2,378 |
| 2New York County, NY | 64 | 135 | 1.7 | $1.6M | −1.3% | #543 of 2,378 |
| 3Essex County, NY | 56 | 24 | 14.7 | $570K | −2.2% | #888 of 2,378 |
| 4Tompkins County, NY | 55 | 53 | 12.3 | $630K | −1.4% | #931 of 2,378 |
| 5Rockland County, NY | 45 | 206 | 19.8 | $463K | +5.9% | #1,425 of 2,378 |
| 6Albany County, NY | 43 | 227 | 16.9 | $453K | +2.2% | #1,516 of 2,378 |
| 7Schoharie County, NY | 43 | 32 | 24.9 | $349K | +1.4% | #1,535 of 2,378 |
| 8Putnam County, NY | 42 | 82 | 23.1 | $455K | +1.4% | #1,548 of 2,378 |
| 9Richmond County, NY | 41 | 287 | 16.8 | $444K | +1.3% | #1,581 of 2,378 |
| 10Herkimer County, NY | 40 | 43 | 16.7 | $481K | −1.4% | #1,639 of 2,378 |
| 28Otsego County, NY | 32 | 55 | 23.7 | $349K | +3.8% | #1,948 of 2,378 |
Other business types in Otsego County
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
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Questions
How many auto repair shops are in Otsego County, NY?
There are 55 auto repair shops on map listings in Otsego County as of September 2026. 13 of them (24%) are chain locations. The listings count general, specialty, body and glass repair shops. Official counts show 29 businesses with payroll classed as mechanical, body and glass repair in 2023, unchanged from 2019. Official counts also show 52 one-person businesses without payroll.
How much do households in Otsego County, NY spend on vehicle maintenance and repairs?
About $19.2M a year, or $827 per household. That is 14% below the U.S. average (an index of 86, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 55 auto repair shops on map listings, it comes to $349K per shop. The spending figure covers all vehicle maintenance and repairs, not only auto repair shops. It is estimated from the incomes of the 23,189 households in Otsego County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Otsego County, NY compare with the U.S. for auto repair shops?
Otsego County has 23.7 auto repair shops per 10,000 households, 10% above the U.S. rate of 21.5. Spending per shop is $349K, 22% below the U.S. figure of $445K. At the national ratio of auto repair shops to household spending, Otsego County would have about 43, against 55 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 800 households, against one for every 955 across the U.S. The official count held level from 2019 to 2023, against +2.1% for the U.S.
How fast is Otsego County, NY growing?
Population estimates put Otsego County at 60,589 people in 2025, up 3.8% since 2020, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 23,189 households. The median household income in Otsego County is $68,885 a year, 15% below the U.S. median of $80,734. That rose 27.5% from the 2015–2019 survey, before inflation.
What is the Groundwork market score?
The Groundwork market score runs from 0 to 100 and compares a market with others of its kind for one business type: states with states, metro areas with metro areas, small-town markets and counties with their own. It weighs household spending per competitor (35%), households per business with payroll (25%), population growth (20%) and spending power (20%), each ranked against those peers. A higher score means that, taken together, the market has more household spending and more households for each business already there, faster population growth and more spending per household than similar markets. It describes a market, not any one site or deal. Otsego County scores 32 for auto repair shops (lower middle), #1,948 of 2,378 scored counties.
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