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Cassadaga, NY

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Overview


Cassadaga is a tiny village located in the state of New York. With a population of 563 people and just one neighborhood, Cassadaga is the 857th largest community in New York. Much of the housing stock in Cassadaga was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic villages in the country.

Occupations and Workforce

Cassadaga is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Cassadaga is a village of professionals, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Cassadaga who work in sales jobs (15.09%), teaching (12.50%), and food service (10.34%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Because of many things, Cassadaga is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Cassadaga a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The village’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Cassadaga has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Cassadaga’s overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.

Cassadaga 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.

Demographics

The percentage of people in Cassadaga who are college-educated is somewhat higher than the average US community of 21.84%: 25.68% of adults in Cassadaga have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Cassadaga in 2022 was $36,738, which is lower middle income relative to New York, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $146,952 for a family of four. However, Cassadaga contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Cassadaga home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Cassadaga residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Cassadaga include German, English, Irish, Italian, and Polish.

The most common language spoken in Cassadaga is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and West Germanic languages.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Real Estate

Despite all of the residential real estate here in the neighborhood, NeighborhoodScout has discovered that much of it is vacant. In resort or second-home vacation areas, this naturally occurs because homes and apartments are seasonally occupied, and empty for a portion of the year. In non-vacation or resort areas, however, this can be an indicator of property abandonment or a weak real estate market. The vacancy rate here is 40.2%, which is higher than 97.7% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Modes of Transportation

More people in choose to walk to work each day (10.9%) than almost any neighborhood in America. If you are attracted to the idea of being able to walk to work, this neighborhood could be a good choice.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Dutch and Swedish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 10.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Dutch ancestry and 6.1% have Swedish ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 4.8% 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 99.0% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

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 Cassadaga are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 41.1% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 5.1% 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 63.6% of America's neighborhoods.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

In the neighborhood, 44.2% 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 26.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.2%), and 5.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 93.5% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and German/Yiddish.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Cassadaga, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (22.6%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (20.5%), and residents who report English roots (11.7%), and some of the residents are also of Dutch ancestry (10.9%), along with some Swedish ancestry residents (6.1%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 (38.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (72.9%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also hop out the door and walk to work to get to work (10.9%) and 8.5% of residents also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors 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.


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