Pine Valley is a tiny town located in the state of New York. With a population of 832 people and just one neighborhood, Pine Valley is the 794th largest community in New York.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Pine Valley is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 38.83% of the Pine Valley workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Pine Valley is a town of professionals, managers, and farmers, fishers, or foresters. There are especially a lot of people living in Pine Valley who work in farm management occupations (15.38%), teaching (14.65%), and management occupations (9.89%).
You will also find that a lot of people in Pine Valley work in agricultural jobs - much more than in the average community in America. This will be quite apparent if you drive around town, as much of the landscape is dedicated to farms.
The overall crime rate in Pine Valley is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.
Being a small town, Pine Valley does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, Pine Valley is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 20.53% of adults 25 and older in Pine Valley have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Pine Valley in 2022 was $24,358, which is low income relative to New York and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $97,432 for a family of four. However, Pine Valley contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Pine Valley home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Pine Valley residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Pine Valley include Irish, Polish, Italian, Czech, and German.
The most common language spoken in Pine Valley is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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 neighborhood is a great option for families, as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's research on this neighborhood. The combination of top public schools, low crime rates, and owner-occupied single family homes, make this neighborhood among the top 9.1% of family-friendly neighborhoods in the state of New York. Many other families also live here, making it easy to socialize and develop a sense of community. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools. In addition to being an excellent choice for families with school-aged children, this neighborhood is also a very good choice for active retirees.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Austrian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Austrian 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 Pine Valley are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 54.4% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 4.2% 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 67.3% of America'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, 37.0% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 29.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (15.7%), and 14.8% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.8% of households. Some people also speak Polish (5.0%).
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 Pine Valley, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (20.9%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (17.2%), and residents who report Irish roots (14.2%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (9.2%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (3.8%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (63.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (77.3%) 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 (13.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.