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Minoa, NY

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Overview


Minoa is a very small village located in the state of New York. With a population of 3,645 people and just one neighborhood, Minoa is the 412th largest community in New York.

Occupations and Workforce

Minoa is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Minoa is a village of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Minoa who work in management occupations (14.53%), sales jobs (12.65%), and teaching (11.99%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Minoa spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 19.23 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the village are less than they would otherwise be.

Minoa 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 overall education level of Minoa citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 30.39% of adults in Minoa have at least a bachelor's degree, and the average American community has 21.84%.

The per capita income in Minoa in 2018 was $38,245, 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 $152,980 for a family of four. However, Minoa contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Modes of Transportation

Our research reveals that 90.2% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 96.6% of U.S. neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Irish and Dominican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 26.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Irish ancestry and 4.8% have Dominican 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 Minoa are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 69.6% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 8.1% 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 55.7% of America's neighborhoods.

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In the neighborhood, 40.8% 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 26.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (19.5%), and 12.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 91.6% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (5.7%).

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 Minoa, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (26.2%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (16.5%), and residents who report Italian roots (15.4%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (13.7%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (7.3%), 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 (47.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (90.2%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. 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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