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Swan Lake, NY

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Overview


Swan Lake is a tiny town located in the state of New York. With a population of 372 people and just one neighborhood, Swan Lake is the 926th largest community in New York.

Occupations and Workforce

Swan Lake is a blue-collar town, with 47.12% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Swan Lake is a town of managers, production and manufacturing workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Swan Lake who work in management occupations (19.23%), personal care services (10.58%), and computer science and math (8.65%).

Also of interest is that Swan Lake has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Setting & Lifestyle

Another notable thing is that Swan Lake is an extremely popular destination for tourists and seasonal residents. So much of the population is seasonal such that the town’s population swells significantly during the vacation season, and drops again when the season ends. Because of this, much of the local economy is centered around tourism; some businesses may be operated only during the high season. During the low season, year-round residents will notice that the city is a substantially quieter place to live.

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

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

One downside of living in Swan Lake is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Swan Lake, the average commute to work is 33.70 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Swan Lake is a very car-oriented town. 100.00% of residents commute to work in a private automobile rather than by other means, such as public transit, bicycling, or walking. This is because Swan Lake is a small town , and most people who live here have to drive out of town for work, and the town population is not large nor dense enough to support an extensive public transportation system. Swan Lake has a lot of rural roads, and houses can be far apart. Many residents drive out of town for regular shopping trips as well.

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

Demographics

In Swan Lake, just 6.08% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.

The per capita income in Swan Lake in 2018 was $29,006, 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 $116,024 for a family of four. However, Swan Lake contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Swan Lake is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.

Real Estate

Vacant homes and apartments are a significant characteristic of this neighborhood. In fact, with 58.2% of the residential real estate vacant, the neighborhood claims the distinction of having a higher vacancy rate than 99.2% of the neighborhoods in America. This can either be because much of the property is seasonally occupied, like in many vacation areas, or that much of the real estate is more permanently abandoned.

Occupations

The neighborhood has a greater proportion of government workers living in it than 96.3% 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 Swiss and Russian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Swiss ancestry and 4.7% have Russian ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 3.9% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Greek at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.8% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Swan Lake are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 62.5% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 5.5% 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 63.7% of America's neighborhoods.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

In the neighborhood, 45.4% 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 30.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (17.5%), and 14.1% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.

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 90.5% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Greek and Italian.

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 Swan Lake, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (22.1%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (12.7%), and residents who report English roots (12.3%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (12.0%), along with some Russian ancestry residents (4.7%), 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 (39.7% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (88.2%) 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 (7.8%) . 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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