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Yorkville, NY

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Overview


Yorkville is a very small village located in the state of New York. With a population of 2,607 people and just one neighborhood, Yorkville is the 510th largest community in New York.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some villages, Yorkville isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Yorkville are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Yorkville is a village of managers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Yorkville who work in management occupations (19.32%), office and administrative support (13.70%), and food service (8.94%).

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 7.35% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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

Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Yorkville spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 19.19 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the village are less than they would otherwise be.

Demographics

The population of Yorkville overall has a level of education that is slightly above the US average for all US cities and towns of 21.84%. Of adults 25 and older in Yorkville, 21.44% have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Yorkville in 2018 was $32,337, 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 $129,348 for a family of four. However, Yorkville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Polish and Yugoslav ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 25.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Polish ancestry and 1.8% have Yugoslav ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 19.8% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Italian at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.7% 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 Yorkville are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 68.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 8.5% 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 54.4% of America'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, 42.4% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations, with 20.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.1%), and 18.4% in manufacturing and laborer 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 95.5% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Greek.

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 Yorkville, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Polish (25.4%). There are also a number of people of Italian ancestry (22.8%), and residents who report Irish roots (18.4%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (13.5%), along with some English ancestry residents (7.6%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (48.1% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (77.9%) 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 (13.1%) . 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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