Overall, Montgomery’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
In Montgomery, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 31.60 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.
In Montgomery, a lot of people use the train to get to work every day though Montgomery is a relatively small village. Those that ride the train are primarily traveling out of town to good jobs in other cities.
In terms of college education, Montgomery is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 21.84% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 32.81% of adults in Montgomery have a college degree.
The per capita income in Montgomery in 2022 was $39,378, 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 $157,512 for a family of four. However, Montgomery contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Montgomery is an extremely ethnically-diverse village. The people who call Montgomery home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Montgomery residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Montgomery also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 28.36% of the village’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Montgomery include Italian, Irish, German, English, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Montgomery is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
