Even though Goshen is a smaller village, it has many people who hop on public transportation – mostly the bus for their daily commute to work. Typically, these people are commuting to good jobs in the surrounding cities.
The education level of Goshen citizens is very high relative to the national average among all cities (21.84%): 39.51% of adults in Goshen have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.
The per capita income in Goshen in 2018 was $54,664, which is upper middle income relative to New York, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $218,656 for a family of four. However, Goshen contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Goshen is a very ethnically-diverse village. The people who call Goshen home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Goshen residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Goshen also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 23.40% of the village’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Goshen include Irish, Italian, German, English, and Russian.
The most common language spoken in Goshen is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German/Yiddish.
