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DeRuyter - Georgetown, NY

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Overview


DeRuyter - Georgetown is a very small town located in the state of New York. With a population of 3,204 people and just one neighborhood, DeRuyter - Georgetown is the 447th largest community in New York. Much of the housing stock in DeRuyter - Georgetown was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, DeRuyter - Georgetown isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in DeRuyter - Georgetown are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, DeRuyter - Georgetown is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in DeRuyter - Georgetown who work in office and administrative support (13.43%), management occupations (12.62%), and sales jobs (8.66%).

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

A relatively large number of people in DeRuyter - Georgetown telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 9.23% 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.

Setting & Lifestyle

Demographics

The education level of DeRuyter - Georgetown citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 22.64% of adults in DeRuyter - Georgetown have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in DeRuyter - Georgetown in 2018 was $28,882, which is low income relative to New York, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $115,528 for a family of four. However, DeRuyter - Georgetown contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in DeRuyter - Georgetown is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.

Real Estate

Vacant homes and apartments are a significant characteristic of this neighborhood. In fact, with 32.1% of the residential real estate vacant, the neighborhood claims the distinction of having a higher vacancy rate than 95.5% of the neighborhoods in America. This can either be because much of the property is seasonally occupied, like in many vacation areas, or that much of the real estate is more permanently abandoned.

In addition, uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 29 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 93.0% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more English ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 20.9% of this neighborhood's residents have English ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 5.9% 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 99.2% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

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 DeRuyter - Georgetown are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 64.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 31.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 82.3% of U.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, 34.4% 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 26.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.3%), and 16.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

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 92.8% of households. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and Polish.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.

In the neighborhood in DeRuyter - Georgetown, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (20.9%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (14.2%), and residents who report Irish roots (12.0%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (5.0%), along with some French ancestry residents (2.7%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 (33.9% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (78.7%) 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 (6.8%) . 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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