Yonkers is a relatively large city located in the state of New York. With a population of 207,657 people and 58 associated neighborhoods, Yonkers is the seventh largest community in New York. Housing costs in Yonkers are among some of the highest in the nation, although real estate prices here don't compare to real estate prices in the most expensive communities in New York.Yonkers is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Yonkers is a city of professionals, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Yonkers who work in office and administrative support (11.80%), management occupations (10.55%), and sales jobs (8.99%). A relatively large number of people in Yonkers telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 10.51% 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. In Yonkers, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 33.86 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average. One bright side is that local public transit is widely used, so it may be an option to avoid the headache of driving in the heavy traffic by leaving the car at home and taking transit. Like elsewhere in America, most people in Yonkers use a private automobile to get to work. But notably, a substantial number of Yonkers‘s citizens do make use of public transit in their daily commute, primarily riding the bus. This helps more people get to work with less air pollution, and require fewer highways to get them there.The citizens of Yonkers are very well educated compared to the average community in the nation: 35.17% of adults in Yonkers have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree. The per capita income in Yonkers in 2022 was $42,770, which is middle income relative to New York, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $171,080 for a family of four. However, Yonkers contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Yonkers is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Yonkers home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. People of Hispanic or Latino origin are the most prevalent group in Yonkers, accounting for 44.41% of the city’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Yonkers residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Yonkers include Italian, Irish, German, Jamaican, and Polish. Yonkers also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 32.64%. The most common language spoken in Yonkers is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Langs. of India.
