Otisville is a tiny village located in the state of New York. With a population of 999 people and just one neighborhood, Otisville is the 767th largest community in New York. Otisville has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic villages.
Unlike some villages where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Otisville is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Otisville is a village of professionals, construction workers and builders, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Otisville who work in healthcare (10.93%), food service (9.14%), and teaching (8.96%).
Also of interest is that Otisville has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
The overall crime rate in Otisville is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.
One downside of living in Otisville, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 35.52 minutes every day commuting to work.
The overall education level of Otisville is somewhat higher than in the average US city of 21.84%: 27.29% of adults 25 and older in the village have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Otisville in 2022 was $36,006, which is middle income relative to New York, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $144,024 for a family of four. However, Otisville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Otisville is an extremely ethnically-diverse village. The people who call Otisville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Otisville residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Otisville also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 19.78% of the village’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Otisville include Italian, Irish, German, Dutch, and French.
The most common language spoken in Otisville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Chinese.
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An interesting characteristic about the neighborhood is that there are more incarcerated people living here than 99.0% of neighborhoods in the U.S. The United States has the highest rate of incarceration in the world, currently with 1 out of every 100 adults in the country are incarcerated as a punishment for crimes committed. The extremely high incarceration rate of this neighborhood could mean that a prison, juvenile detention facility or other correctional facility occupies a large proportion of the neighborhood, or contains a large portion of the neighborhood's population.
In addition, if you're planning where to retire, the neighborhood in Otisville is a great option to consider. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive retirement dream area analysis, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety ratings compared to other neighborhoods in NY, offers a wide range of housing options, and has already attracted an enviable mix of college educated seniors. This neighborhood ranks as better for retirement living than 87.1% of the neighborhoods in New York. If you are considering retiring to New York, this is a good neighborhood to look at.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Puerto Rican and Hungarian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 9.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Puerto Rican ancestry and 1.8% have Hungarian 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 Otisville are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 76.2% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 6.6% 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 59.6% of America'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, 40.5% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 24.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (21.2%), and 13.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 86.0% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (10.0%).
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 Otisville, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (17.2%). There are also a number of people of Italian ancestry (16.0%), and residents who report German roots (12.9%), and some of the residents are also of Puerto Rican ancestry (9.6%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (6.3%), among others. In addition, 11.3% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 (31.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (82.7%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.