Cambridge, NY real estate and demographic information

About Cambridge

Cambridge is a very small village located in the state of New York. With a population of 1,869 people and three constituent neighborhoods, Cambridge is the 584th largest community in New York. Cambridge has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic villages in the country.

Cambridge is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Cambridge is a village of professionals, sales and office workers and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Cambridge who work in office and administrative support (13.03%), management occupations (10.77%) and sales jobs (8.29%).

Because of many things, Cambridge is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Cambridge really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Cambridge perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic nightlife, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.

The village is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Cambridge has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Cambridge a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

Being a small village, Cambridge does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Cambridge Information and Demographics

The percentage of adults in Cambridge who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 20.94% of the adults in Cambridge have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Cambridge in 2010 was $21,060, 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 $84,240 for a family of four.

The people who call Cambridge home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Cambridge residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Cambridge include Irish, English, German, Italian, French and Scottish.

The most common language spoken in Cambridge is English. Some people also speak Spanish.