One thing noticeable about Yonkers, although not a huge city, is that it has a large population of people who are young, single, educated, and upwardly-mobile career starters. That’s because Yonkers is full of single people in their 20s and 30s and who have undergraduate or graduate degrees and are starting careers in professional occupations. This makes Yonkers a pretty good place for young, educated career starters looking to find many people like themselves, with good opportunities for friendships, socializing, romance, and fun.
In Yonkers, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 33.87 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 addition, the city is also quite pedestrian-friendly, because many neighborhoods are very dense and have amenities close enough together that people find it feasible to get around on foot.
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 population of Yonkers is very well educated relative to most cities and towns in the nation, where the average community has 21.84% of its adult population holding a 4-year degree or higher: 35.54% of adults in Yonkers have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.
The per capita income in Yonkers in 2022 was $42,336, 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 $169,344 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 41.59% 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.
Foreign born people are also an important part of Yonkers's cultural character, accounting for 32.02% of the city’s population.
The most common language spoken in Yonkers is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Langs. of India.
