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. Felts Mills has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns.
Felts Mills is a military town: the armed forces employs 49.23% of the workforce, making the military a major focus of life in the city. In the civilian sector, Public Service and Other are important in the local economy and are the town’s largest civilian employers, employing 48.48% and 30.30% of the civilian workforce respectively.
Being a small town, Felts Mills does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of adults in Felts Mills with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 15.52% of adults in Felts Mills have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Felts Mills in 2022 was $24,188, which is low income relative to New York and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $96,752 for a family of four. However, Felts Mills contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
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, German, English, Polish, and Northern European.
The most common language spoken in Felts Mills is English. Other important languages spoken here include Korean and Langs. of India.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
The neighborhood stands out nationally for having a greater proportion of its residents active in the military than 99.5% of other U.S. neighborhoods. If you come here, you will notice military people active in their jobs, going to and from work, and in plain clothes out and about the neighborhood.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Hungarian and Welsh ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Hungarian ancestry and 2.6% have Welsh ancestry.
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 55.7% of the neighborhoods in America. With 11.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 53.1% 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, 33.1% 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 26.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (26.2%), and 14.2% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.0% of households. Some people also speak Polish (4.7%).
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 Felts Mills, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (20.0%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (12.0%), and residents who report German roots (8.1%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (4.5%), along with some Hungarian ancestry residents (3.5%), among others.
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 (68.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (79.4%) 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 (18.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.