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Caneadea, NY

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Overview


Caneadea is a very small town located in the state of New York. With a population of 1,932 people and just one neighborhood, Caneadea is the 604th largest community in New York.

Occupations and Workforce

Caneadea is a blue-collar town, with 36.03% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Caneadea is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Caneadea who work in teaching (13.41%), sales jobs (11.31%), and management occupations (7.87%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Another notable thing is that Caneadea is a major vacation destination. Much of the town’s population is seasonal: many people own second homes and only live there part-time, during the vacation season. The effect on the local economy is that many of the businesses are dependent on tourist dollars, and may operate only during the high season. As the vacation season ends, Caneadea’s population drops significantly, such that year-round residents will notice that the city is a much quieter place to live.

Caneadea 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

The population of Caneadea overall has a level of education that is slightly above the US average for all US cities and towns of 21.84%. Of adults 25 and older in Caneadea, 23.19% have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Caneadea in 2022 was $30,072, 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 $120,288 for a family of four. However, Caneadea contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Caneadea home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Caneadea residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Caneadea include German, English, Irish, Pennsylvania German, and Polish.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Real Estate

Despite all of the residential real estate here in the neighborhood, NeighborhoodScout has discovered that much of it is vacant. In resort or second-home vacation areas, this naturally occurs because homes and apartments are seasonally occupied, and empty for a portion of the year. In non-vacation or resort areas, however, this can be an indicator of property abandonment or a weak real estate market. The vacancy rate here is 58.4%, which is higher than 99.3% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Modes of Transportation

Our research shows that more people carpool to work here in the (22.3%) than in 95.2% of the neighborhoods in America.

Diversity

Significantly, 8.1% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.5% 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 Caneadea are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 68.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 28.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 79.2% of U.S. neighborhoods.

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In the neighborhood, 34.7% 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 33.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.2%), and 12.5% 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 91.7% of households. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and Polish.

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 Caneadea, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (28.7%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (16.7%), and residents who report Irish roots (14.2%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (5.1%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (3.3%), 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 (31.2% 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 (22.3%) . 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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