Cayuga is a tiny village located in the state of New York. With a population of 470 people and just one neighborhood, Cayuga is the 897th largest community in New York. Cayuga has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic villages in the country.
Cayuga is a decidedly white-collar village, with fully 85.96% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Cayuga is a village of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Cayuga who work in office and administrative support (20.18%), law enforcement and fire fighting (13.60%), and food service (10.96%).
Also of interest is that Cayuga has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
It is a fairly quiet village because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Cayuga has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Cayuga has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Cayuga than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Cayuga may be for you.
Being a small village, Cayuga does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The population of Cayuga overall has a level of education that is slightly above the US average for all US cities and towns of 21.84%. Of adults 25 and older in Cayuga, 22.44% have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Cayuga in 2022 was $42,915, which is upper middle income relative to New York and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $171,660 for a family of four.
The people who call Cayuga home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Cayuga residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Cayuga include Irish, English, German, Italian, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Cayuga is English. Other important languages spoken here include Slavic languages and French.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
The neighborhood is a great option for families, as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's research on this neighborhood. The combination of top public schools, low crime rates, and owner-occupied single family homes, make this neighborhood among the top 9.9% of family-friendly neighborhoods in the state of New York. Many other families also live here, making it easy to socialize and develop a sense of community. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Ukrainian and Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Ukrainian ancestry and 24.7% have Irish 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 Cayuga are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 58.4% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 8.7% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 53.9% of America's neighborhoods.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
In the neighborhood, 36.8% 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 25.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.9%), and 16.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.6% of households.
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Cayuga, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (24.7%). There are also a number of people of Italian ancestry (18.4%), and residents who report English roots (18.4%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (16.1%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (5.3%), among others.
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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (41.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (84.7%) 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 (7.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.