Gouverneur is a very small village located in the state of New York. With a population of 3,646 people and just one neighborhood, Gouverneur is the 426th largest community in New York. Gouverneur has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic villages.
Unlike some villages, Gouverneur isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Gouverneur are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Gouverneur is a village of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Gouverneur who work in office and administrative support (17.02%), teaching (13.25%), and sales jobs (12.20%).
Also of interest is that Gouverneur has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Gouverneur 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.
In terms of college education, Gouverneur is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 18.00% of adults 25 and older in Gouverneur have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Gouverneur in 2022 was $24,319, which is low income relative to New York and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $97,276 for a family of four. However, Gouverneur contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Gouverneur home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Gouverneur residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Gouverneur include Irish, German, Italian, French, and French Canadian.
The most common language spoken in Gouverneur is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
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.
Of particular note, 12.8% of the people in the neighborhood currently reside in a correction facility, held due to punishment for a crime.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more French Canadian and Lithuanian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.1% of this neighborhood's residents have French Canadian ancestry and 1.4% have Lithuanian 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 Gouverneur are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 80.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 14.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 59.1% 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, 28.7% 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 28.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (27.3%), and 16.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
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 92.4% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Gouverneur, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (17.6%). There are also a number of people of Italian ancestry (13.8%), and residents who report German roots (13.6%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (8.0%), along with some French ancestry residents (7.4%), 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 (56.3% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (82.7%) 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 (15.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.