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Felts Mills, NY

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Overview


Felts Mills is a tiny town located in the state of New York. With a population of 473 people and just one neighborhood, Felts Mills is the 895th largest community in New York.

Occupations and Workforce

The armed forces are a huge part of the life in Felts Mills, employing 13.58% of the workforce. While it is a military town, the civilian sector still plays an important role in the local economy, where the Public Service and Other industries employ 35.46% and 23.40% of the civilian workforce, respectively.

Setting & Lifestyle

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

Felts Mills is a small town, and as is often the case with smaller towns, the population isn't large or dense enough to support much in the way of a public transportation system. In fact, there are many rural roads around Felts Mills, which makes walking or biking to and from work a bit difficult. This makes for a very car-oriented town: 99.38% of residents commute to work by private automobile, and people often drive out of town for work, shopping, and other activities.

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

Demographics

In terms of college education, Felts Mills is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 19.35% of adults 25 and older in Felts Mills have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Felts Mills in 2022 was $79,678, which is wealthy relative to New York and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $318,712 for a family of four. However, Felts Mills contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Felts Mills is English. Other important languages spoken here include Korean and Langs. of India.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Felts Mills, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Occupations

With 5.7% of employed workers living in the neighborhood active in the military, this neighborhood has the distinction of having a higher proportion of people in the military than 98.9% of American neighborhoods. This is a major shaper of the neighborhood's culture and character.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Welsh and Hungarian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Welsh ancestry and 3.1% have Hungarian ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 2.3% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Korean at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.7% 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 Felts Mills are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 53.2% of the neighborhoods in America. With 17.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 65.8% 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, 27.1% of the working population is employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support 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 26.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (24.3%), and 21.8% 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 94.3% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Korean.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.

In the neighborhood in Felts Mills, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (15.0%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (13.6%), and residents who report German roots (9.6%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (6.8%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (3.8%), 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 (67.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (83.8%) 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 (14.2%) . 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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