Many people in Utica take advantage of public transportation to get around. In fact, for the size of the city, the number of people who use the bus to commute to work is quite high. This helps to fill a need among Utica citizens for affordable transportation.
In terms of college education, Utica is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 20.59% of adults 25 and older in Utica have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Utica in 2022 was $25,622, which is low income relative to New York, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $102,488 for a family of four. However, Utica contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Utica is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Utica home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Utica residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Utica also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 13.69% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Utica include Italian, Irish, German, Yugoslavian, and Polish.
Utica also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 22.22%.
The most common language spoken in Utica is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Serbo-Croatian.
