Montour Falls - Cayuta is a very small town located in the state of New York. With a population of 4,399 people and just one neighborhood, Montour Falls - Cayuta is the 356th largest community in New York. Montour Falls - Cayuta has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
Unlike some towns, Montour Falls - Cayuta isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Montour Falls - Cayuta are a mix 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%).
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 7.45% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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.
Overall, Montour Falls - Cayuta’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
The education level of Montour Falls - Cayuta citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 20.29% of adults 25 and older in Montour Falls - Cayuta have a college degree.
The per capita income in Montour Falls - Cayuta in 2022 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.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
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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.
There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a 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.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.6% of households.
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.
How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. 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.