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Kendall, NY

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Overview


Kendall is a very small town located in the state of New York. With a population of 2,607 people and just one neighborhood, Kendall is the 514th largest community in New York. Kendall has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Kendall is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Kendall is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Kendall who work in office and administrative support (10.96%), sales jobs (8.47%), and management occupations (6.53%).

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

Setting & Lifestyle

Because of many things, Kendall is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Kendall a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The town’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Kendall has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Kendall’s overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.

It is a fairly quiet town 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!) Kendall 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. Kendall has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Kendall than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Kendall may be for you.

Kendall is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

The citizens of Kendall are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 22.14% of adults in Kendall having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Kendall in 2018 was $35,838, 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 $143,352 for a family of four. However, Kendall contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Kendall is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Kendall home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Kendall residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Kendall also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 11.43% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Kendall include German, English, Italian, Irish, and European.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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People

If you're looking for a great spot to raise a family, then look no further than the neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's analysis found that the combination of good quality public schools, above-average safety from crime, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family homes, help make this neighborhood among the top 11.1% of family-friendly neighborhoods across the state of New York. In addition, there are a high proportion of other families with school-aged children living here, making it easy for parents and their children to socialize and develop a sense of community support. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools, in part due to the educational attainment of the parents here, who vote in support of the public schools.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Dutch and English ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Dutch ancestry and 19.6% have English ancestry.

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 Kendall are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 62.6% of the neighborhoods in America. With 10.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 50.7% of U.S. neighborhoods.

A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.

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 25.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.4%), and 15.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.3% of households.

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 Kendall, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (26.1%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (19.6%), and residents who report Italian roots (11.7%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (9.9%), 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 (31.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (76.2%) 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 (12.8%) . 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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