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Wappingers Falls, NY
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Wappingers Falls profile


Living in Wappingers Falls



Wappingers Falls is a somewhat small village located in the state of New York. With a population of 6,064 people and ten constituent neighborhoods, Wappingers Falls is the 273rd largest community in New York. Wappingers Falls has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic villages in the country.

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

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 10.54% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

The education level of Wappingers Falls citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 19.79% of adults 25 and older in Wappingers Falls have a college degree.

The per capita income in Wappingers Falls in 2018 was $30,801, 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 $123,204 for a family of four. However, Wappingers Falls contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Wappingers Falls is an extremely ethnically-diverse village. The people who call Wappingers Falls home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Wappingers Falls residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Wappingers Falls also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 22.51% of the village’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Wappingers Falls include Italian, Irish, German, English, and French Canadian.

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