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Norfolk, NY

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Overview


Norfolk is a very small town located in the state of New York. With a population of 1,238 people and just one neighborhood, Norfolk is the 715th largest community in New York. Norfolk 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

Norfolk is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 86.52% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Norfolk is a town of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Norfolk who work in healthcare suport services (27.90%), law enforcement and fire fighting (14.42%), and teaching (8.46%).

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, Norfolk has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Norfolk a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

As is often the case in a small town, Norfolk doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The percentage of people in Norfolk with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 11.71% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Norfolk in 2018 was $24,722, 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 $98,888 for a family of four. However, Norfolk contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Norfolk home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Norfolk residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Norfolk include English, French, Irish, German, and Dutch.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.

Modes of Transportation

While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 93.2% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 98.4% of all American neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swiss and French Canadian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Swiss ancestry and 7.4% have French Canadian ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 3.4% 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 98.4% 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 Norfolk are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 79.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 31.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 81.6% 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, 34.3% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 29.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (25.6%), and 11.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 94.6% of households. Some people also speak German/Yiddish (3.4%).

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 Norfolk, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (12.6%). There are also a number of people of French ancestry (12.1%), and residents who report Irish roots (10.8%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (9.2%), along with some French Canadian ancestry residents (7.4%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (49.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (93.2%) 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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