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Gardiner, NY

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Overview


Gardiner is a tiny town located in the state of New York. With a population of 952 people and just one neighborhood, Gardiner is the 769th largest community in New York.

Housing costs in Gardiner are among some of the highest in the nation, although real estate prices here don't compare to real estate prices in the most expensive communities in New York.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Gardiner is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 35.05% of the Gardiner workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Gardiner is a town of managers, construction workers and builders, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Gardiner who work in management occupations (23.02%), teaching (9.62%), and sales jobs (8.59%).

Of important note, Gardiner is also a town of artists. Gardiner has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Gardiner’s character.

Setting & Lifestyle

Gardiner’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.

Being a small town, Gardiner does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The citizens of Gardiner are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 15.95% of adults in Gardiner have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree

The per capita income in Gardiner in 2022 was $41,385, which is middle income relative to New York, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $165,540 for a family of four.

Gardiner is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Gardiner home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Gardiner residents report their race to be White. Gardiner also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 10.23% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Gardiner include Italian, German, Swedish, Scottish, and Irish.

The most common language spoken in Gardiner is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

The Neighbors

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 Gardiner are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 79.0% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 0.9% 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 79.0% of America's neighborhoods.

The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.

In the neighborhood, 53.3% 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 17.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (16.6%), and 12.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

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 78.1% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Chinese.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.

In the neighborhood in Gardiner, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (11.4%). There are also a number of people of Italian ancestry (10.8%), and residents who report German roots (8.2%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (6.3%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (4.3%), among others. In addition, 12.2% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

Getting to Work

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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (32.3% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (69.0%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also hop out the door and walk to work to get to work (6.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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