Summit - Richmondville is a very small town located in the state of New York. With a population of 3,547 people and just one neighborhood, Summit - Richmondville is the 424th largest community in New York.
Unlike some towns, Summit - Richmondville isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Summit - Richmondville are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Summit - Richmondville is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Summit - Richmondville who work in sales jobs (10.76%), office and administrative support (10.51%), and management occupations (10.19%).
A relatively large number of people in Summit - Richmondville telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 12.43% 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.
The population of Summit - Richmondville overall has a level of education that is slightly above the US average for all US cities and towns of 21.84%. Of adults 25 and older in Summit - Richmondville, 22.34% have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Summit - Richmondville in 2022 was $34,227, 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 $136,908 for a family of four. However, Summit - Richmondville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Summit - Richmondville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Summit - Richmondville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Summit - Richmondville include German, Irish, English, Italian, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in Summit - Richmondville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish 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 Summit - Richmondville, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Astoundingly, the neighborhood has one of the highest concentrations of divorcees living here than of any neighborhood, a higher concentration than NeighborhoodScout found in 97.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. This may be because people living here divorce more often than others, or that divorced people move here after they become divorced. If you are divorced, you will be in good company in this particular Summit - Richmondville neighborhood.
In addition, if you're planning where to retire, the neighborhood in Summit - Richmondville is a great option to consider. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive retirement dream area analysis, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety ratings compared to other neighborhoods in NY, offers a wide range of housing options, and has already attracted an enviable mix of college educated seniors. This neighborhood ranks as better for retirement living than 89.5% of the neighborhoods in New York. If you are considering retiring to New York, this is a good neighborhood to look at.
Despite all of the residential real estate here in the neighborhood, NeighborhoodScout has discovered that much of it is vacant. In resort or second-home vacation areas, this naturally occurs because homes and apartments are seasonally occupied, and empty for a portion of the year. In non-vacation or resort areas, however, this can be an indicator of property abandonment or a weak real estate market. The vacancy rate here is 34.1%, which is higher than 96.2% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Czechoslovakian and Dutch ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Czechoslovakian ancestry and 5.8% have Dutch 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 Summit - Richmondville are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 46.7% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 6.1% 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 61.2% 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, 36.1% 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 28.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.7%), and 13.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 94.6% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.5%).
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 Summit - Richmondville, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (24.2%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (15.1%), and residents who report English roots (14.8%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (13.6%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (5.8%), 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 (31.8% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (78.5%) 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 (5.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.