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Montour Falls - Cayuta, NY

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Overview


Montour Falls - Cayuta is a very small town located in the state of New York. With a population of 4,433 people and just one neighborhood, Montour Falls - Cayuta is the 356th largest community in New York. Much of the housing stock in Montour Falls - Cayuta was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Montour Falls - Cayuta is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Montour Falls - Cayuta is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Montour Falls - Cayuta who work in office and administrative support (16.85%), teaching (9.27%), and management occupations (8.15%).

A relatively large number of people in Montour Falls - Cayuta telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 7.45% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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.

Setting & Lifestyle

Demographics

In terms of college education, Montour Falls - Cayuta is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 20.29% of adults 25 and older in Montour Falls - Cayuta have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Montour Falls - Cayuta in 2018 was $30,660, 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 $122,640 for a family of four. However, Montour Falls - Cayuta contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Montour Falls - Cayuta is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Other Indo-European.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Montour Falls - Cayuta, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Dutch ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Dutch ancestry.

The Neighbors

How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Montour Falls - Cayuta are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 68.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 31.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 82.5% of U.S. neighborhoods.

A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.

In the neighborhood, 31.6% 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 27.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (20.5%), and 18.9% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.6% of households.

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 Montour Falls - Cayuta, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (19.5%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (15.8%), and residents who report English roots (15.7%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (7.7%), along with some French ancestry residents (4.8%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (35.4% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (79.0%) 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 (9.9%) . 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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