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. There's nothing like the smell of a brand new house, and in Fort Montgomery, you'll find that a large proportion of houses were recently built. New growth in residential real estate is an indication that people are choosing to move to Fort Montgomery, and putting down their money on brand new construction. Fort Montgomery’s real estate is, on average, some of the newest in the nation. Fort Montgomery does seem to be experiencing an influx of affluent people, because 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%).
Overall, Fort Montgomery’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
Being a small town, Fort Montgomery does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, Fort Montgomery is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 21.84% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 30.42% of adults in Fort Montgomery have a college 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.
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.
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.
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 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.