Canajoharie is a very small village located in the state of New York. With a population of 2,073 people and just one neighborhood, Canajoharie is the 591st largest community in New York. Canajoharie has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic villages.
Unlike some villages, Canajoharie isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Canajoharie are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Canajoharie is a village of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Canajoharie who work in management occupations (15.66%), sales jobs (12.62%), and office and administrative support (12.50%).
Canajoharie is a small village, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The percentage of adults in Canajoharie with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 16.88% of adults in Canajoharie have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Canajoharie in 2022 was $29,165, which is low income relative to New York, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $116,660 for a family of four. However, Canajoharie contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Canajoharie home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Canajoharie residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Canajoharie include English, Italian, German, Irish, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in Canajoharie is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Canajoharie, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Do you watch 'This Old House' on Public Television? Do you love the idea of fixing up a Colonial or Victorian era home, complete with the charm of yesteryear? Do you like to stroll or drive streets lined with gracious older residences? If you found yourself nodding yes to any of these questions, you are going to be interested in this unique neighborhood. The neighborhood stands out on a national scale for the sheer concentration of historic residences it contains: 61.3% of the residential real estate here was built from 1939 or earlier, some much earlier. This is a greater concentration of historic homes than 96.8% of the neighborhoods in the United States.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swiss and Dutch ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 13.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Swiss ancestry and 5.2% have Dutch ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 16.8% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.8% of the neighborhoods in America.
Do you like to be surrounded by people from all over the country or world, with different perspectives and life experiences? Or do you instead prefer to be in a neighborhood where most residents have lived there for a long time, creating a sense of cohesiveness? NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals that this neighborhood stands out among American neighborhoods for the uniqueness of the mobility of its residents. More residents of the neighborhood live here today that also were living in this same neighborhood five years ago than is found in 95.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. This neighborhood is really made up of people who know each other, don't move often, and have lived here in this very neighborhood for quite a while.
How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Canajoharie are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 60.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 12.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 55.0% of U.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, 34.9% 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 31.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.7%), and 13.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 81.5% of households. Some people also speak German/Yiddish (16.8%).
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 Canajoharie, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (17.5%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (13.4%), and residents who report Swiss roots (13.4%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (10.0%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (9.5%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (29.4% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (74.1%) 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 (14.2%) and 5.5% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work for their daily commute. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.