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Smyrna, NY

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Overview


Smyrna is a tiny village located in the state of New York. With a population of 205 people and just one neighborhood, Smyrna is the 966th largest community in New York. Smyrna has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic villages.

Occupations and Workforce

Smyrna is a blue-collar town, with 36.25% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Smyrna is a village of service providers, transportation and shipping workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Smyrna who work in sales jobs (17.50%), maintenance occupations (16.25%), and healthcare suport services (8.75%).

Setting & Lifestyle

The village is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Smyrna has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Smyrna a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

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

Demographics

Smyrna ranks among the bottom of the nation in terms of college education compared to other cities and towns: only 3.13% of people over 25 have a college degree.

The per capita income in Smyrna in 2018 was $29,944, 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 $119,776 for a family of four. However, Smyrna contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Smyrna home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Smyrna residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Smyrna include English, Scottish, Irish, Welsh, and Italian.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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 Smyrna, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Diversity

Significantly, 2.0% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.2% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

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 Smyrna are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 43.1% of the neighborhoods in America. With 21.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 71.3% of U.S. neighborhoods.

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In the neighborhood, 36.3% 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 31.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.6%), and 8.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 94.2% of households. Some people also speak Polish (2.5%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Smyrna, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (16.1%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (15.7%), and residents who report German roots (14.3%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (7.1%), along with some French ancestry residents (3.3%), among others.

Getting to Work

Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (39.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (78.4%) 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 (8.4%) and 6.0% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work for their daily commute. 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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