Fort Montgomery is a very small town located in the state of New York. With a population of 1,627 people and just one neighborhood, Fort Montgomery is the 658th largest community in New York. Much of the housing stock in Fort Montgomery was built relatively recently. The construction of new real estate can often be taken as an indication that the local Fort Montgomery economy is robust, and that jobs or other amenities are attracting an influx of new residents. This seems to be the case in Fort Montgomery, where the median household income is $80,946.00.
Unlike some towns, Fort Montgomery isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Fort Montgomery are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Fort Montgomery is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Fort Montgomery who work in office and administrative support (16.57%), business and financial occupations (11.72%), and teaching (11.64%).
The overall crime rate in Fort Montgomery 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.
Fort Montgomery 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.
The education level of Fort Montgomery citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 30.42% of adults in Fort Montgomery have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Fort Montgomery in 2022 was $49,778, which is upper middle income relative to New York, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $199,112 for a family of four. However, Fort Montgomery contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Fort Montgomery is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Fort Montgomery home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Fort Montgomery residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Fort Montgomery also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 25.61% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Fort Montgomery include Irish, German, Polish, Italian, and Greek.
Fort Montgomery also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 16.15%.
The most common language spoken in Fort Montgomery is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Chinese.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
If you are planning to retire in New York, this neighborhood should be on your must-see list. For many reasons, may be considered a retiree's dream neighborhood. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and metrics, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety from crime compared to other neighborhoods in New York, while also offering a diverse range of housing options. This, along with the vibrant mix of very educated seniors and other age groups who choose to live here, makes the neighborhood more retiree-friendly than 96.1% of neighborhoods in NY. If a New York retirement is in your future, this neighborhood should be one of the places you visit. In addition to being an excellent choice for active retirees, this neighborhood is also a very good choice for first-time home buyers.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Haitian and Puerto Rican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 8.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Haitian ancestry and 15.0% have Puerto Rican ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 8.1% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak French at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.8% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Fort Montgomery are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 70.9% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 4.4% 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 66.1% 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, 37.6% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations, with 25.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (21.6%), and 15.7% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
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 75.2% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish, French, Polish and Chinese.
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 Fort Montgomery, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Puerto Rican (15.0%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (12.4%), and residents who report German roots (9.2%), and some of the residents are also of Haitian ancestry (8.5%), along with some Asian ancestry residents (5.9%), among others. In addition, 19.2% 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (32.7% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (85.0%) 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.