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Dryden, NY

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Overview


Dryden is a very small village located in the state of New York. With a population of 1,886 people and just one neighborhood, Dryden is the 614th largest community in New York.

Occupations and Workforce

Dryden is a decidedly white-collar village, with fully 85.02% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Dryden is a village of professionals, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Dryden who work in teaching (16.32%), management occupations (12.18%), and sales jobs (11.81%).

Of important note, Dryden is also a village of artists. Dryden has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Dryden’s character.

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

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 15.34% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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 Dryden ranks among the highest in the nation. Of the 25-and-older adult population in Dryden, 46.45% have at least a bachelor's degree. The typical US community has just 21.84% of its adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree.

The per capita income in Dryden in 2018 was $37,834, 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 $151,336 for a family of four. However, Dryden contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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People

An extraordinary 15.9% of the residents of the neighborhood are currently enrolled in college. This is such a large part of life in this neighborhood that the neighborhood changes a great deal with the change of semesters and is far quieter during the summer when many students are away.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Irish and Swiss ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 23.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Irish ancestry and 1.3% have Swiss ancestry.

The Neighbors

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The neighbors in the neighborhood in Dryden are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 59.7% of the neighborhoods in America. With 40.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 89.5% 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, 52.7% 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 21.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (13.2%), and 12.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 92.9% of households. Some people also speak Polish (3.9%).

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 Dryden, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (23.7%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (16.6%), and residents who report German roots (16.3%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (8.9%), along with some Polish 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 (46.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (62.3%) 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 (14.8%) and 7.8% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work for their daily commute. 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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