Wappingers Falls, NY real estate and demographic information

About Wappingers Falls

Wappingers Falls is a somewhat small village located in the state of New York. With a population of 5,533 people and ten constituent neighborhoods, Wappingers Falls is the 292nd largest community in New York.

Unlike some villages where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Wappingers Falls is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Wappingers Falls is a village of sales and office workers, professionals and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Wappingers Falls who work in office and administrative support (16.02%), sales jobs (10.50%) and management occupations (10.21%).

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.

Despite being a small village, Wappingers Falls has a lot of people using the bus to get to and from work every day. Most of these people on the bus are using it to get to good jobs in other cities.

Wappingers Falls Information and Demographics

The citizens of Wappingers Falls are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 15.13% of adults in Wappingers Falls have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree

The per capita income in Wappingers Falls in 2010 was $22,893, 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 $91,572 for a family of four. However, Wappingers Falls contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Wappingers Falls is a very 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 26.24% of the village’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Wappingers Falls include Italian, Irish, German, Jamaican and West Indian.

Foreign born people are also an important part of Wappingers Falls's cultural character, accounting for 24.00% of the village’s population.

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