Au Sable Forks is a tiny town located in the state of New York. With a population of 509 people and just one neighborhood, Au Sable Forks is the second largest community in New York.
Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Au Sable Forks is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Au Sable Forks is a town of professionals, transportation and shipping workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Au Sable Forks who work in computer science and math (29.93%), sales jobs (12.77%), and business and financial occupations (9.85%).
Also of interest is that Au Sable Forks has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
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!) Au Sable Forks 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. Au Sable Forks has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Au Sable Forks than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Au Sable Forks may be for you.
Au Sable Forks is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The percentage of people in Au Sable Forks who are college-educated is somewhat higher than the average US community of 21.84%: 27.18% of adults in Au Sable Forks have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Au Sable Forks in 2022 was $33,609, 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 $134,436 for a family of four. However, Au Sable Forks contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Au Sable Forks home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Au Sable Forks residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Au Sable Forks include Irish, Italian, English, French, and German.
The most common language spoken in Au Sable Forks is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
The government often provides some of the more stable jobs in the economy. From local, to state, to federal government workers, the government can also be a major employer. What NeighborhoodScout's analysis revealed, is that the neighborhood in particular stands out when compared nationally for the proportion of its working residents who are employed by the government. At 18.4% of its workforce, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of government workers than 98.6% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 21 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 94.6% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more French and French Canadian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 19.6% of this neighborhood's residents have French ancestry and 6.4% have French Canadian ancestry.
How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Au Sable Forks are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 49.2% of the neighborhoods in America. With 17.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 65.3% of U.S. neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 34.2% 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 33.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions (18.4%), and 16.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.3% of households.
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 Au Sable Forks, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as French (19.6%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (18.3%), and residents who report English roots (9.5%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (8.5%), along with some French Canadian ancestry residents (6.4%), 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 between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (32.5% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (86.4%) 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 (9.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.