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Lyndonville, NY

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Overview


Lyndonville is a tiny village located in the state of New York. With a population of 793 people and just one neighborhood, Lyndonville is the 805th largest community in New York. Lyndonville has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic villages.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some villages where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Lyndonville is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Lyndonville is a village of service providers, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Lyndonville who work in law enforcement and fire fighting (13.07%), office and administrative support (12.31%), and management occupations (12.06%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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

Demographics

The education level of Lyndonville citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 21.81% of adults in Lyndonville have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Lyndonville in 2018 was $32,028, which is lower middle income relative to New York, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $128,112 for a family of four. However, Lyndonville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swiss and Armenian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Swiss ancestry and 1.2% have Armenian ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 7.0% 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 99.4% 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 Lyndonville are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 61.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 22.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 72.1% 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, 36.9% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 26.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (24.9%), and 10.3% 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 90.8% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and German/Yiddish.

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 Lyndonville, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (18.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (15.5%), and residents who report English roots (15.5%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (9.4%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (5.5%), 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 (26.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (80.9%) 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 (9.6%) . 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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