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South Cairo, NY

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Overview


South Cairo is a tiny town located in the state of New York. With a population of 590 people and just one neighborhood, South Cairo is the 851st largest community in New York.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, South Cairo isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in South Cairo are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, South Cairo is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in South Cairo who work in sales jobs (48.16%), maintenance occupations (12.63%), and office and administrative support (9.74%).

A relatively large number of people in South Cairo telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 12.63% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

Setting & Lifestyle

The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, South Cairo has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes South Cairo a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

Residents of the town have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 14.50 minutes getting to work every day.

South Cairo is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

In terms of college education, South Cairo ranks among the least educated cities in the nation, as only 5.12% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in South Cairo in 2022 was $33,919, 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 $135,676 for a family of four.

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

The most common language spoken in South Cairo is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and African languages.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Italian and Dutch ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 32.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Italian ancestry and 4.6% have Dutch ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 10.2% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Italian at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.0% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

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 South Cairo are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 67.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 15.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 60.5% of U.S. neighborhoods.

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In the neighborhood, 36.4% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 29.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.5%), and 16.3% 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 94.4% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian, Polish and Spanish.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 South Cairo, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Italian (32.1%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (15.3%), and residents who report Irish roots (15.2%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (6.7%), along with some English ancestry residents (6.1%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 (40.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (67.0%) 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 (15.0%) . 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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