It is a fairly quiet city 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!) Manhattan 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. Manhattan has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Manhattan than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Manhattan may be for you.
Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Manhattan spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 0.00 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the city are less than they would otherwise be.
Manhattan is a decent-sized city, yet no one gets to work using public transit, because the city has no real transit system.
The population of Manhattan has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 0.00% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.
Manhattan is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Manhattan home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Manhattan residents report their race to be Native Hawaiian. Important ancestries of people in Manhattan include Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, West Indian, U.S. Virgin Islander, and Trinidadian and Tobagonian.
The most common language spoken in Manhattan is German/Yiddish. Other important languages spoken here include Langs. of India and African languages.
