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Oriskany Falls, NY

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Overview


Oriskany Falls is a tiny village located in the state of New York. With a population of 645 people and just one neighborhood, Oriskany Falls is the 834th largest community in New York. Much of the housing stock in Oriskany Falls was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic villages in the country.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some villages where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Oriskany Falls is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Oriskany Falls is a village of professionals, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Oriskany Falls who work in healthcare (15.77%), office and administrative support (11.99%), and sales jobs (7.26%).

Of important note, Oriskany Falls is also a village of artists. Oriskany Falls has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Oriskany Falls’s character.

Also of interest is that Oriskany Falls has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Setting & Lifestyle

Demographics

The citizens of Oriskany Falls are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 22.56% of adults in Oriskany Falls having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Oriskany Falls in 2022 was $46,610, 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 $186,440 for a family of four. However, Oriskany Falls contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Oriskany Falls home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Oriskany Falls residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Oriskany Falls include Irish, German, English, Italian, and French.

The most common language spoken in Oriskany Falls is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Iranian and French Canadian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Iranian ancestry and 3.5% have French Canadian ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 9.1% 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 97.5% 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 Oriskany Falls are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 64.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 13.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 57.6% of U.S. neighborhoods.

A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.

In the neighborhood, 39.2% 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 24.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.1%), and 12.0% 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 92.6% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian, Polish, German/Yiddish and Spanish.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Oriskany Falls, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (19.8%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (18.6%), and residents who report English roots (17.5%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (9.0%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (7.7%), 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 (31.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (73.8%) 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 (8.7%) . 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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