McGraw - Blodgett Mills is a very small town located in the state of New York. With a population of 2,742 people and just one neighborhood, McGraw - Blodgett Mills is the 489th largest community in New York. McGraw - Blodgett Mills has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
McGraw - Blodgett Mills is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, McGraw - Blodgett Mills is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in McGraw - Blodgett Mills who work in sales jobs (16.06%), management occupations (12.17%), and office and administrative support (11.44%).
One of the benefits of McGraw - Blodgett Mills is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 18.28 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.
The education level of McGraw - Blodgett Mills citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 23.83% of adults in McGraw - Blodgett Mills have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in McGraw - Blodgett Mills in 2022 was $34,464, 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 $137,856 for a family of four. However, McGraw - Blodgett Mills contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call McGraw - Blodgett Mills home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of McGraw - Blodgett Mills residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in McGraw - Blodgett Mills include Irish, English, German, Italian, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in McGraw - Blodgett Mills 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 McGraw - Blodgett Mills, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more French Canadian and Welsh ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.6% of this neighborhood's residents have French Canadian ancestry and 2.1% have Welsh ancestry.
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 McGraw - Blodgett Mills are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 61.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 2.9% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 71.2% of America'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, 32.3% 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 26.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (22.8%), and 18.4% 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 96.6% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
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 McGraw - Blodgett Mills, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (20.9%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (20.2%), and residents who report German roots (16.0%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (6.8%), along with some Polish 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 (51.8% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (87.4%) 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 (7.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.