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Millerton, NY

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Overview


Millerton is a tiny village located in the state of New York. With a population of 889 people and just one neighborhood, Millerton is the 782nd largest community in New York. Millerton has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic villages in the country.

Occupations and Workforce

Millerton is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Millerton is a village of service providers, managers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Millerton who work in management occupations (12.22%), food service (10.59%), and teaching (10.18%).

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

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 16.23% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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

Overall, Millerton’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.

Demographics

In terms of college education, Millerton is somewhat better educated than the 21.84% who have a 4-year degree or higher in the typical US community: 25.00% of adults 25 and older in the village have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Millerton in 2018 was $38,253, 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 $153,012 for a family of four. However, Millerton contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Millerton is an extremely ethnically-diverse village. The people who call Millerton home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Millerton residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Millerton also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 29.81% of the village’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Millerton include Irish, German, English, Italian, and Lithuanian.

Millerton also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 29.58%.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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People

If you are planning to retire in New York, this neighborhood should be on your must-see list. For many reasons, may be considered a retiree's dream neighborhood. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and metrics, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety from crime compared to other neighborhoods in New York, while also offering a diverse range of housing options. This, along with the vibrant mix of very educated seniors and other age groups who choose to live here, makes the neighborhood more retiree-friendly than 99.3% of neighborhoods in NY. If a New York retirement is in your future, this neighborhood should be one of the places you visit. In addition to being an excellent choice for active retirees, this neighborhood is also a very good choice for first-time home buyers and highly educated executives.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Eastern European and Russian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Eastern European ancestry and 4.2% have Russian ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 3.4% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak French at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.0% 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 Millerton 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 15.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 60.1% 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, 46.9% 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 23.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (14.8%), and 13.8% 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 80.2% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and French.

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 Millerton, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (15.0%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (14.2%), and residents who report English roots (12.3%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (10.8%), along with some French ancestry residents (4.9%), among others. In addition, 13.7% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

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 (37.0% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (67.2%) 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 (7.1%) . 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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