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.
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 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.
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, 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.
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
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.
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 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.