New Rochelle is a larger medium-sized coastal city (ie. on the ocean or tidally-influenced rivers) located in the state of New York. With a population of 72,182 people and 16 constituent neighborhoods, New Rochelle is the 12th largest community in New York.

Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, New Rochelle is neither predominently one or the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, New Rochelle is a city of professionals, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in New Rochelle who work in office and administrative support jobs (13.92%), sales jobs (11.28%), and management occupations (10.33%).

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

Another interesting thing about New Rochelle, despite not being a huge city, is that there is a relatively high proportion of people living here who are young, single, and upwardly-mobile professionals. This makes it a good choice for other relocating single professionals. Here, these young singles will find many others like themselves, with opportunities for friendships, socializing, romance, and fun.

In addition to being popular with young singles, New Rochelle is also home to many people who can be described as "urban sophisticates," which are people who are not only wealthy and employed in professional occupations, but highly educated to boot. Urban sophisticates have urbane tastes - whether they reside in a big or small city, a suburb, or a little town. Urban sophisticates support bookstores, quality clothing stores, enjoy luxury travel, and in big cities, they are truly the patrons of the arts, attending and supporting institutions such as opera, symphony, ballet, and theatre.

One of the nice things about New Rochelle is that is it nautical, meaning that parts of the city are somewhat historic and on the ocean, or touch tidal bodies of water, such as inlets and tidal rivers. Because of this, visitors and locals will often go to these areas to take in the scenery or to enjoy waterfront activities.

For the size of the city, public transportation in New Rochelle is quite heavily used. Mostly, people who use it for their daily commute are taking the train. For New Rochelle, the benefits are reduced air pollution and congestion on the highways.

New Rochelle Information and Demographics

The citizens of New Rochelle are very well educated compared to the average community in the nation: 38.31% of adults in New Rochelle have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in New Rochelle in 2000 was $31,956, which is wealthy relative to New York and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $127,824 for a family of four.

New Rochelle is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call New Rochelle home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in New Rochelle is White, followed by African-American. New Rochelle also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 19.92% of the city's residents. Important ancestries of people in New Rochelle include Italian, Irish, German, Russian, Polish, and Jamaican.

New Rochelle also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 27.32%.

The most common language spoken in New Rochelle is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.