The Deaf Community in Rochester

Rochester, New York has one of the largest populations of deaf residents in the country and the highest percentage enrolled in secondary education, according to a new report from the Rochester Institute of Technology’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf. There are 43,000 deaf or hard of hearing residents in the Rochester area. That's about 3.7% of the population. The national average is 3.5%. More than six-out-of-ten deaf people age 18-to-25-year-olds in Rochester are enrolled in higher education.