Candor is a tiny village located in the state of New York. With a population of 761 people and just one neighborhood, Candor is the 802nd largest community in New York. Candor has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic villages.
Unlike some villages, Candor isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Candor are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Candor is a village of managers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Candor who work in management occupations (26.49%), maintenance occupations (15.99%), and sales jobs (6.68%).
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 13.61% 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.
Candor is a small village, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The education level of Candor citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 22.98% of adults in Candor have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Candor in 2022 was $35,533, which is lower middle income relative to New York, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $142,132 for a family of four. However, Candor contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Candor home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Candor residents report their race to be White, followed by Native Hawaiian. Important ancestries of people in Candor include Irish, English, German, Italian, and Pennsylvania German.
The most common language spoken in Candor is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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 Candor, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 95.9% of all neighborhoods in America, with 32.1% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.
Significantly, 2.3% 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 97.0% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Candor are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 79.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 29.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 81.6% of U.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, 32.8% 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 27.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.0%), and 18.1% 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 97.4% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and German/Yiddish.
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 Candor, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (22.9%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (19.5%), and residents who report Irish roots (17.0%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (6.0%), along with some Puerto Rican ancestry residents (5.9%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (33.6% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (83.7%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.