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Valatie - Niverville, NY

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Overview


Valatie - Niverville is a somewhat small town located in the state of New York. With a population of 5,902 people and just one neighborhood, Valatie - Niverville is the 279th largest community in New York.

Occupations and Workforce

Valatie - Niverville is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Valatie - Niverville is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Valatie - Niverville who work in management occupations (13.68%), healthcare (11.83%), and office and administrative support (10.69%).

Also of interest is that Valatie - Niverville has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 14.06% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

Setting & Lifestyle

Demographics

The citizens of Valatie - Niverville are very well educated compared to the average community in the nation: 35.53% of adults in Valatie - Niverville have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Valatie - Niverville in 2018 was $53,544, which is upper middle income relative to New York, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $214,176 for a family of four. However, Valatie - Niverville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Valatie - Niverville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Valatie - Niverville residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Valatie - Niverville include Irish, German, English, Italian, and Polish.

The most common language spoken in Valatie - Niverville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.

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

People

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Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more French Canadian and Dutch ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.7% of this neighborhood's residents have French Canadian ancestry and 4.9% have Dutch ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 10.5% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Polish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.3% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 Valatie - Niverville are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 71.5% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 2.5% 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 73.2% 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, 48.8% 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 21.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.4%), 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 94.5% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.

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 Valatie - Niverville, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (17.6%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (14.8%), and residents who report English roots (13.5%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (10.9%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (6.6%), 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 (38.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (77.0%) 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 (6.9%) . 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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