Wayland is a very small village located in the state of New York. With a population of 1,719 people and just one neighborhood, Wayland is the 646th largest community in New York. Wayland has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic villages in the country.
Wayland is a blue-collar town, with 39.69% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Wayland is a village of professionals, transportation and shipping workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Wayland who work in healthcare (13.93%), management occupations (7.38%), and office and administrative support (7.24%).
As is often the case in a small village, Wayland doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The citizens of Wayland are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 15.65% of adults in Wayland have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Wayland in 2022 was $28,632, which is low income relative to New York, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $114,528 for a family of four. However, Wayland contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Wayland home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Wayland residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Wayland include German, Irish, English, Italian, and French.
The most common language spoken in Wayland is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Portuguese.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
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 Wayland are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 70.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 33.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 84.1% of U.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, 38.8% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 31.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.9%), and 8.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.1% of households.
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 Wayland, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (31.2%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (20.5%), and residents who report English roots (15.5%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (5.2%), along with some Sub-Saharan African ancestry residents (4.3%), among others.
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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (40.7% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (75.7%) 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 (14.6%) and 5.9% 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.