Pottersville is a tiny town located in the state of New York. With a population of 359 people and just one neighborhood, Pottersville is the 932nd largest community in New York.
When you are in Pottersville, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 52.81% of Pottersville’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Pottersville is a town of construction workers and builders, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Pottersville who work in maintenance occupations (16.85%), sales jobs (15.73%), and architecture and engineering (11.24%).
The overall crime rate in Pottersville 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.
Residents will find that the town is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Pottersville is worth considering.
One downside of living in Pottersville is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Pottersville, the average commute to work is 37.92 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Pottersville is a very car-oriented town. 96.63% of residents commute to work in a private automobile rather than by other means, such as public transit, bicycling, or walking. This is because Pottersville is a small town , and most people who live here have to drive out of town for work, and the town population is not large nor dense enough to support an extensive public transportation system. Pottersville has a lot of rural roads, and houses can be far apart. Many residents drive out of town for regular shopping trips as well.
Being a small town, Pottersville does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The population of Pottersville is very well educated relative to most cities and towns in the nation, where the average community has 21.84% of its adult population holding a 4-year degree or higher: 36.96% of adults in Pottersville have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.
The per capita income in Pottersville in 2022 was $23,622, which is low income relative to New York and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $94,488 for a family of four. Pottersville also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 46.90% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Pottersville is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Pottersville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Pottersville residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Pottersville include Italian, English, Irish, French, and German.
The most common language spoken in Pottersville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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.
Despite all of the residential real estate here in the neighborhood, NeighborhoodScout has discovered that much of it is vacant. In resort or second-home vacation areas, this naturally occurs because homes and apartments are seasonally occupied, and empty for a portion of the year. In non-vacation or resort areas, however, this can be an indicator of property abandonment or a weak real estate market. The vacancy rate here is 45.5%, which is higher than 98.4% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
In addition, this neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 29 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 92.9% of America.
Our research reveals that 90.1% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 97.3% of U.S. neighborhoods.
It used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 4.2% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 96.1% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Hungarian and Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Hungarian ancestry and 30.4% have Irish ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 7.5% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Italian at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.4% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Pottersville are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 70.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 9.4% 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 51.4% 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, 30.4% 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 25.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (20.6%), and 19.3% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.4% of households. Some people also speak Italian (7.5%).
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 Pottersville, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (30.4%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (18.4%), and residents who report Italian roots (13.8%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (13.3%), along with some French ancestry residents (10.5%), 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 (40.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (90.1%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.