Overview Cameron is a tiny town located in the state of New York. With a population of 892 people and just one neighborhood, Cameron is the 784th largest community in New York. Occupations and Workforce Cameron is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Cameron is a town of managers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Cameron who work in management occupations (11.81%), office and administrative support (11.26%), and business and financial occupations (8.24%). Setting & Lifestyle It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Cameron has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Cameron has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Cameron than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Cameron may be for you. In Cameron, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 33.54 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average. As is often the case in a small town, Cameron doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute. Cameron Demographics The citizens of Cameron are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 14.69% of adults in Cameron have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree The per capita income in Cameron in 2022 was $28,456, 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 $113,824 for a family of four. However, Cameron contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Cameron also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 31.59% of its population below the federal poverty line. The people who call Cameron home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Cameron residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Cameron include English, Irish, German, Polish, and French. The most common language spoken in Cameron is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.