New York Mills is a very small village located in the state of New York. With a population of 3,211 people and just one neighborhood, New York Mills is the 449th largest community in New York.
New York Mills is a decidedly white-collar village, with fully 88.38% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, New York Mills is a village of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in New York Mills who work in office and administrative support (15.32%), sales jobs (15.26%), and teaching (12.47%).
Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of New York Mills spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 17.98 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the village are less than they would otherwise be.
For a small village, New York Mills has a lot of people who use public transit to get to work, and those that do mostly ride the bus. This suggests that a real need for low-cost transportation in New York Mills exists, and local transit is helping to meet that need.
The education level of New York Mills citizens is very high relative to the national average among all cities (21.84%): 39.18% of adults in New York Mills have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.
The per capita income in New York Mills in 2022 was $36,948, 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 $147,792 for a family of four. However, New York Mills contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call New York Mills home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of New York Mills residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in New York Mills include Italian, Irish, German, Polish, and English.
The most common language spoken in New York Mills is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Vietnamese.
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.
Regardless of the means by which residents commute, this neighborhood has a length of commute that is notable. Residents of the neighborhood have the pleasure of having one of the shortest commutes to work of any neighborhood in America. 62.0% of the residents have a commute time from home to work (one way) of less than fifteen minutes. This is a higher proportion of residents enjoying a short trip to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 96.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. Less time commuting means more time for other things in life.
There is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (0.8%) living in the neighborhood.
In addition, if you're nearing retirement age, or in retirement, the is an excellent choice for you to consider for top-quality retirement living. This neighborhood is rated by NeighborhoodScout as among the top 7.2% of retiree-friendly neighborhoods in New York, combining peace and quiet, safety from crime, and offering diverse housing options from which retirees can choose. Maybe it's because of these amenities that a large proportion of the residents here are college educated seniors, mixed with other age groups. For these and other reasons, NeighborhoodScout identifies this neighborhood as a top-notch place to consider if you are thinking of or planning to retire in New York.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Polish and Italian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 17.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Polish ancestry and 26.6% have Italian ancestry.
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 New York Mills are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 69.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 16.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 62.4% 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, 38.7% 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 24.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (21.6%), and 14.8% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 93.8% of households. Some people also speak Italian (2.3%).
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 New York Mills, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Italian (26.6%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (19.6%), and residents who report Polish roots (17.4%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (16.6%), along with some English ancestry residents (9.7%), among others.
How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (62.0% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (69.4%) 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 (18.0%) and 5.7% 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.