About New York Mills

New York Mills is a very small village located in the state of New York. With a population of 3,216 people and just one neighborhood, New York Mills is the 491st largest community in New York.

Unlike some villages where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, New York Mills is neither predominently one or the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, New York Mills is a village of professionals, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in New York Mills who work in office and administrative support jobs (17.68%), teaching (9.52%), and healthcare (8.88%).

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

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 15.53 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the village are less than they would otherwise be.

New York Mills is very much a car-oriented village. This is because the population of New York Mills isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 97.97% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more.

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

New York Mills Information and Demographics

In terms of college education, New York Mills is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 14.96%: 16.01% of adults 25 and older in New York Mills have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in New York Mills in 2000 was $19,793, 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 $79,172 for a family of four.

The people who call New York Mills home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in New York Mills is White, followed by African-American. Important ancestries of people in New York Mills include Polish, Italian, Irish, German, French, and English.

The most common language spoken in New York Mills is English. Some people also speak Polish.