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Livingston Manor, NY

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Overview


Livingston Manor is a very small town located in the state of New York. With a population of 1,053 people and just one neighborhood, Livingston Manor is the 750th largest community in New York. Livingston Manor 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

Livingston Manor is a blue-collar town, with 35.34% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Livingston Manor is a town of professionals, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Livingston Manor who work in law enforcement and fire fighting (12.37%), healthcare (10.60%), and sales jobs (10.25%).

Also of interest is that Livingston Manor 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 Livingston Manor telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 8.48% 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

The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Livingston Manor has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Livingston Manor a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

Residents of the town have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 18.39 minutes getting to work every day.

Being a small town, Livingston Manor does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

In terms of college education, Livingston Manor is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 19.23% of adults 25 and older in Livingston Manor have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Livingston Manor in 2018 was $24,033, 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 $96,132 for a family of four. However, Livingston Manor contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Livingston Manor is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Livingston Manor home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Livingston Manor residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Livingston Manor also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 12.88% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Livingston Manor include German, Irish, Bulgarian, Italian, and Czech.

In addition, Livingston Manor has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (19.39%).

The most common language spoken in Livingston Manor is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Slavic languages.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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People

In a nation where 1 out of every 4 children lives in poverty, the neighborhood stands out as being ranked among the lowest 0.0% of neighborhoods affected by this global issue.

Occupations

The neighborhood has a greater proportion of government workers living in it than 95.3% of the neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. This is a unique feature of this neighborhood, and one that shapes its character.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Austrian and Lebanese ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 7.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Austrian ancestry and 1.6% have Lebanese 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 Livingston Manor are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 100.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 0.0% 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 100.0% of America'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, 39.1% 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 27.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (18.0%), and 15.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 93.3% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the neighborhood in Livingston Manor, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (33.7%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (20.1%), and residents who report English roots (16.6%), and some of the residents are also of Austrian ancestry (7.8%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (7.0%), 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 (37.9% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (83.4%) 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 (6.3%) . 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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