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Oriskany Falls, NY

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Overview


Oriskany Falls is a tiny village located in the state of New York. With a population of 645 people and just one neighborhood, Oriskany Falls is the 834th largest community in New York. Oriskany Falls has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic villages in the country.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some villages where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Oriskany Falls is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Oriskany Falls is a village of professionals, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Oriskany Falls who work in healthcare (15.77%), office and administrative support (11.99%), and sales jobs (7.26%).

Of important note, Oriskany Falls is also a village of artists. Oriskany Falls has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Oriskany Falls’s character.

Also of interest is that Oriskany Falls has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Setting & Lifestyle

Demographics

The citizens of Oriskany Falls are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 22.56% of adults in Oriskany Falls having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Oriskany Falls in 2018 was $46,610, which is upper middle income relative to New York, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $186,440 for a family of four. However, Oriskany Falls contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Oriskany Falls is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Iranian and French Canadian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Iranian ancestry and 3.5% have French Canadian ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 9.1% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Italian at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.5% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

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 Oriskany Falls are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 64.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 13.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 57.6% of U.S. neighborhoods.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

In the neighborhood, 39.2% 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 24.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.1%), and 12.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 92.6% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian, Polish, German/Yiddish and Spanish.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.

In the neighborhood in Oriskany Falls, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (19.8%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (18.6%), and residents who report English roots (17.5%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (9.0%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (7.7%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (31.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (73.8%) 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 (8.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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