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Brushton, NY

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Overview


Brushton is a tiny village located in the state of New York. With a population of 440 people and just one neighborhood, Brushton is the 907th largest community in New York. Brushton has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic villages.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some villages where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Brushton is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Brushton is a village of service providers, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Brushton who work in office and administrative support (16.00%), management occupations (12.40%), and law enforcement and fire fighting (12.00%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Despite the fact that it is a small village, Brushton has quite a few people who take public transportation – mostly the bus - for their daily commute to work. This helps to fill a real need in the village for affordable transportation.

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Brushton with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 16.93% of adults in Brushton have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Brushton in 2022 was $21,264, which is low income relative to New York and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $85,056 for a family of four. However, Brushton contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Brushton home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Brushton residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Brushton include English, Irish, French, German, and Scottish.

The most common language spoken in Brushton is English. Other important languages spoken here include West Germanic languages and French.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Occupations

The neighborhood has a greater proportion of government workers living in it than 96.8% 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 French and French Canadian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 19.8% of this neighborhood's residents have French ancestry and 6.9% have French Canadian ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 4.2% 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 98.8% 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 Brushton are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 71.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 31.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 82.6% of U.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, 34.4% 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 29.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (19.4%), and 14.8% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 94.6% of households. Some people also speak German/Yiddish (4.2%).

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 Brushton, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as French (19.8%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (16.0%), and residents who report Irish roots (13.2%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (7.5%), along with some French Canadian ancestry residents (6.9%), 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 (57.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (85.8%) 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 (5.1%) . 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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