McGraw - Blodgett Mills is a very small town located in the state of New York. With a population of 2,774 people and just one neighborhood, McGraw - Blodgett Mills is the 489th largest community in New York. McGraw - Blodgett Mills has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
Unlike some towns, McGraw - Blodgett Mills isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in McGraw - Blodgett Mills are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, McGraw - Blodgett Mills is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in McGraw - Blodgett Mills who work in sales jobs (15.06%), management occupations (8.29%), and office and administrative support (7.06%).
Of important note, McGraw - Blodgett Mills is also a town of artists. McGraw - Blodgett Mills has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape McGraw - Blodgett Mills’s character.
Also of interest is that McGraw - Blodgett Mills has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
The population of McGraw - Blodgett Mills overall has a level of education that is slightly above the US average for all US cities and towns of 21.84%. Of adults 25 and older in McGraw - Blodgett Mills, 23.02% have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in McGraw - Blodgett Mills in 2022 was $29,839, 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 $119,356 for a family of four. However, McGraw - Blodgett Mills contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call McGraw - Blodgett Mills home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of McGraw - Blodgett Mills residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in McGraw - Blodgett Mills include Irish, English, German, Italian, and French.
The most common language spoken in McGraw - Blodgett Mills is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in McGraw - Blodgett Mills, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
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 McGraw - Blodgett Mills are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 62.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 3.9% 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 68.2% 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, 36.0% 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 27.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (22.3%), and 13.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
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 95.8% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in McGraw - Blodgett Mills, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (19.4%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (18.2%), and residents who report German roots (12.9%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (7.8%), along with some French ancestry residents (3.5%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (44.9% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (82.0%) 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 (10.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.