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Wingdale, NY

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Overview


Wingdale is a very small town located in the state of New York. With a population of 1,051 people and just one neighborhood, Wingdale is the 751st largest community in New York.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Wingdale is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 43.64% of the Wingdale workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Wingdale is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Wingdale who work in sales jobs (17.76%), food service (11.18%), and management occupations (9.65%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Residents will find that the town is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Wingdale is worth considering.

In Wingdale, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 36.98 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

Being a small town, Wingdale does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The citizens of Wingdale are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 13.39% of adults in Wingdale have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree

The per capita income in Wingdale in 2018 was $29,939, 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 $119,756 for a family of four. However, Wingdale contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Wingdale also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 32.56% of its population below the federal poverty line.

Wingdale is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Wingdale home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Wingdale residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Wingdale also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 15.09% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Wingdale include Irish, Italian, German, French, and Polish.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Length of Commute

Regardless of the means by which residents commute, this neighborhood has a length of commute that is notable. Long commutes can be brutal. They take time, money, and energy, leaving less of you for yourself and your family. The residents of the neighborhood unfortunately have the distinction of having, on average, a longer commute than most any neighborhood in America. 10.0% of commuters here travel more than one hour just one-way to work. That is more than two hours per day. This percentage with two-hour + round-trip commutes is higher than NeighborhoodScout found in 95.4% of all neighborhoods in America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Dominican and Croatian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Dominican ancestry and 0.7% have Croatian 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 Wingdale are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 70.0% of the neighborhoods in America. With 21.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 70.7% of U.S. neighborhoods.

The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.

In the neighborhood, 30.9% 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 25.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (24.6%), and 18.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 88.3% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (10.5%).

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 Wingdale, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (13.9%). There are also a number of people of Italian ancestry (13.9%), and residents who report German roots (11.7%), and some of the residents are also of Puerto Rican ancestry (6.6%), along with some English ancestry residents (6.0%), 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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (34.3% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (84.7%) 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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