Belmont - Friendship is a very small town located in the state of New York. With a population of 3,608 people and just one neighborhood, Belmont - Friendship is the 414th largest community in New York. Much of the housing stock in Belmont - Friendship was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Belmont - Friendship is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Belmont - Friendship is a town of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Belmont - Friendship who work in office and administrative support (7.75%), healthcare suport services (7.51%), and management occupations (7.28%).
The citizens of Belmont - Friendship are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 16.26% of adults in Belmont - Friendship have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Belmont - Friendship in 2022 was $27,922, 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 $111,688 for a family of four. However, Belmont - Friendship contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Belmont - Friendship home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Belmont - Friendship residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Belmont - Friendship include German, Irish, English, Italian, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Belmont - Friendship is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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There is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (2.1%) living in the neighborhood.
Significantly, 7.4% 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 96.3% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Belmont - Friendship are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 78.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 40.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 89.6% 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, 33.6% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 30.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.1%), and 15.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
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 99.3% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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 Belmont - Friendship, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (27.4%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (18.0%), and residents who report English roots (15.3%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (8.5%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (4.5%), among others.
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 (37.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (84.2%) 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 (11.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.