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Utica, NY
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Utica profile


Living in Utica



Utica is a larger medium-sized city located in the state of New York. With a population of 64,081 people and 29 constituent neighborhoods, Utica is the 14th largest community in New York. Utica has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic cities.

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

One of the benefits of Utica is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 18.38 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.

Utica has a lot of people who ride the bus to and from work. In fact, for its size, Utica has quite a high level of public transit users. Utica’s need for inexpensive transportation options for its citizens is quite high.

The education level of Utica citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 19.42% of adults 25 and older in Utica have a college degree.

The per capita income in Utica in 2018 was $23,872, which is low income relative to New York, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $95,488 for a family of four. However, Utica contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Utica is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Utica home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Utica residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Utica also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 12.88% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Utica include Italian, Irish, German, Yugoslavian, and Polish.

In addition, Utica has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (21.22%).

The most common language spoken in Utica is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Serbo-Croatian.