Fort Drum is a medium-sized town located in the state of New York. With a population of 15,896 people and three associated neighborhoods, Fort Drum is the largest community in New York. There's nothing like the smell of a brand new house, and in Fort Drum, you'll find that a large proportion of houses were recently built. New growth in residential real estate is an indication that people are choosing to move to Fort Drum, and putting down their money on brand new construction. Fort Drum’s real estate is, on average, some of the newest in the nation. Fort Drum does seem to be experiencing an influx of affluent people, because the median household income is $56,559.00.
Fort Drum is a military town: the armed forces employs 37.55% of the workforce, making the military a major focus of life in the city. In the civilian sector, Retail and Public Service are important in the local economy and are the town’s largest civilian employers, employing 22.16% and 14.65% of the civilian workforce respectively.
Of important note, Fort Drum is also a town of artists. Fort Drum has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Fort Drum’s character.
A relatively large number of people in Fort Drum telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 13.47% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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.
Overall, Fort Drum’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
One of the benefits of Fort Drum is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 12.82 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.
Being a small town, Fort Drum does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, Fort Drum is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 21.84% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 30.13% of adults in Fort Drum have a college degree.
The per capita income in Fort Drum in 2022 was $21,970, which is low income relative to New York and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $87,880 for a family of four. However, Fort Drum contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Fort Drum is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Fort Drum home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Fort Drum residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Fort Drum also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 22.16% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Fort Drum include German, Irish, English, Italian, and African.
The most common language spoken in Fort Drum is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and French.