Westernville is a tiny town located in the state of New York. With a population of 144 people and just one neighborhood, Westernville is the 975th largest community in New York. Westernville has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns.
Unlike some towns, Westernville isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Westernville are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Westernville is a town of managers, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Westernville who work in business and financial occupations (34.43%), personal care services (24.59%), and computer science and math (9.84%).
Also of interest is that Westernville has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Westernville’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Westernville has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Westernville has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Westernville than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Westernville may be for you.
Westernville is a small town, and as is often the case with smaller towns, the population isn't large or dense enough to support much in the way of a public transportation system. In fact, there are many rural roads around Westernville, which makes walking or biking to and from work a bit difficult. This makes for a very car-oriented town: 100.00% of residents commute to work by private automobile, and people often drive out of town for work, shopping, and other activities.
Being a small town, Westernville does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
Westernville is one of the most well-educated cities in the nation. 48.33% of adults in Westernville have at least a bachelor's degree. Compare that to the average community in America, which has just 21.84% with a bachelor's degree or higher.
The per capita income in Westernville in 2022 was $36,932, which is middle income relative to New York, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $147,728 for a family of four. However, Westernville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Westernville also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 32.07% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Westernville is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Westernville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Westernville residents report their race to be White. Westernville also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 19.90% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Westernville include Irish, Italian, German, Ukrainian, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Westernville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
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.
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 28 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 93.1% of America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Welsh and Swiss ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Welsh ancestry and 2.7% have Swiss ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 3.5% 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 98.5% 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 Westernville are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 60.8% of the neighborhoods in America. With 13.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 57.2% of U.S. neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the neighborhood, 37.8% 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 25.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (19.8%), and 14.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
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, German/Yiddish and Italian.
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Westernville, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (25.4%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (20.9%), and residents who report Italian roots (18.7%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (9.8%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (9.6%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (47.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (81.8%) 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 (11.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.