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 an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic villages.
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.
As is often the case in a small village, Cayuga doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
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.
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 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.
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, 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.
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 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.
How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. 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.