Montour Falls - Cayuta is a very small town located in the state of New York. With a population of 4,399 people and just one neighborhood, Montour Falls - Cayuta is the 356th largest community in New York. Montour Falls - Cayuta has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Montour Falls - Cayuta is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Montour Falls - Cayuta is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Montour Falls - Cayuta who work in office and administrative support (16.44%), teaching (8.65%), and management occupations (7.84%).
Montour Falls - Cayuta’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
The citizens of Montour Falls - Cayuta are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 22.58% of adults in Montour Falls - Cayuta having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Montour Falls - Cayuta in 2022 was $31,523, which is lower middle income relative to New York, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $126,092 for a family of four. However, Montour Falls - Cayuta contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Montour Falls - Cayuta home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Montour Falls - Cayuta residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Montour Falls - Cayuta include English, German, Irish, Italian, and French.
The most common language spoken in Montour Falls - Cayuta is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Other Indo-European.
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There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Montour Falls - Cayuta are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 61.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 25.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 76.7% of U.S. neighborhoods.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
In the neighborhood, 31.2% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 26.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.9%), and 20.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.8% of households.
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Montour Falls - Cayuta, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (20.7%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (17.0%), and residents who report Irish roots (15.0%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (6.1%), along with some French ancestry residents (4.2%), among others.
Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (38.8% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (78.1%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (11.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.