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Sylvan Beach, NY

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Overview


Sylvan Beach is a tiny village located in the state of New York. With a population of 881 people and just one neighborhood, Sylvan Beach is the 786th largest community in New York.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some villages, Sylvan Beach isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Sylvan Beach are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Sylvan Beach is a village of professionals, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Sylvan Beach who work in office and administrative support (11.90%), sales jobs (10.20%), and healthcare (9.86%).

Also of interest is that Sylvan Beach has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Setting & Lifestyle

Another notable thing is that Sylvan Beach is an extremely popular destination for tourists and seasonal residents. So much of the population is seasonal such that the village’s population swells significantly during the vacation season, and drops again when the season ends. Because of this, much of the local economy is centered around tourism; some businesses may be operated only during the high season. During the low season, year-round residents will notice that the city is a substantially quieter place to live.

It is a fairly quiet village because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Sylvan Beach has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Sylvan Beach has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Sylvan Beach than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Sylvan Beach may be for you.

In Sylvan Beach, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 33.78 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

Being a small village, Sylvan Beach does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The education level of Sylvan Beach citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 20.78% of adults 25 and older in Sylvan Beach have a college degree.

The per capita income in Sylvan Beach in 2022 was $32,768, 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 $131,072 for a family of four. However, Sylvan Beach contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Sylvan Beach home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Sylvan Beach residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Sylvan Beach include Irish, German, English, Italian, and French.

The most common language spoken in Sylvan Beach is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Real Estate

One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swiss ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Swiss ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 13.3% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Italian at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.9% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

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 Sylvan Beach are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 55.8% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 0.6% 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 79.8% of America's neighborhoods.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

In the neighborhood, 33.1% 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 28.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (25.9%), and 12.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.7% of households. Some people also speak Italian (13.3%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Sylvan Beach, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (20.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (16.9%), and residents who report Italian roots (14.1%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (13.3%), along with some French ancestry residents (4.8%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (39.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (87.8%) 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.


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