Hagaman is a very small village located in the state of New York. With a population of 1,112 people and just one neighborhood, Hagaman is the 737th largest community in New York.
Hagaman is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Hagaman is a village of professionals, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Hagaman who work in office and administrative support (10.63%), management occupations (9.19%), and sales jobs (9.01%).
Of important note, Hagaman is also a village of artists. Hagaman has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Hagaman’s character.
It is a fairly quiet village because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Hagaman has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Hagaman has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Hagaman than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Hagaman may be for you.
Hagaman is a small village, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The citizens of Hagaman are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 24.56% of adults in Hagaman having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Hagaman in 2022 was $38,266, which is middle income relative to New York, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $153,064 for a family of four. However, Hagaman contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Hagaman is a somewhat ethnically-diverse village. The people who call Hagaman home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Hagaman residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Hagaman also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 13.97% of the village’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Hagaman include Italian, Polish, German, Irish, and English.
The most common language spoken in Hagaman is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Slavic languages.
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.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Polish and Lithuanian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 20.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Polish ancestry and 1.8% have Lithuanian ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 0.6% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Persian 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 Hagaman 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 13.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 57.3% 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, 40.3% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional 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 26.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (17.0%), and 16.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 93.9% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.8%).
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in Hagaman, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Polish (20.4%). There are also a number of people of Italian ancestry (15.6%), and residents who report Irish roots (14.9%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (10.4%), along with some English ancestry residents (7.9%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (38.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (77.6%) 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 (11.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.