Cato is a tiny village located in the state of New York. With a population of 530 people and two associated neighborhoods, Cato is the 877th largest community in New York. Cato has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic villages in the country.
The overall crime rate in Cato is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.
It is a fairly quiet village because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Cato has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Cato has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Cato than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Cato may be for you.
Cato is a small village, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The rate of college-level education in Cato is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 12.68% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Cato in 2022 was $29,885, which is low income relative to New York, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $119,540 for a family of four. However, Cato contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Cato home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Cato residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Cato include Irish, English, German, French Canadian, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Cato is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.