Oriskany is a very small village located in the state of New York. With a population of 1,344 people and just one neighborhood, Oriskany is the 704th largest community in New York. Much of the housing stock in Oriskany was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic villages in the country.
Oriskany is a decidedly white-collar village, with fully 86.52% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Oriskany is a village of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Oriskany who work in office and administrative support (20.82%), business and financial occupations (7.85%), and teaching (7.68%).
Also of interest is that Oriskany has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Oriskany spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 17.59 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the village are less than they would otherwise be.
Oriskany is a small village, 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 Oriskany citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 19.26% of adults 25 and older in Oriskany have a college degree.
The per capita income in Oriskany in 2022 was $32,758, 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 $131,032 for a family of four. However, Oriskany contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Oriskany home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Oriskany residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Oriskany include German, Italian, Irish, English, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Oriskany is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
Of particular note, 9.7% of the people in the neighborhood currently reside in a correction facility, held due to punishment for a crime.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Yugoslav ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 0.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Yugoslav ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 14.5% 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 99.1% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Oriskany are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 65.7% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 9.2% 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 52.8% 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, 51.8% 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 18.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (15.1%), and 14.5% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.
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 90.1% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian, Polish and Spanish.
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in Oriskany, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (19.3%). There are also a number of people of Italian ancestry (12.6%), and residents who report Irish roots (12.6%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (11.4%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (6.7%), among others.
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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (45.3% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (76.9%) 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 (13.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.