Hannibal is a tiny village located in the state of New York. With a population of 541 people and just one neighborhood, Hannibal is the 870th largest community in New York. Much of the housing stock in Hannibal was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic villages in the country.
Hannibal is a blue-collar town, with 42.61% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Hannibal is a village of sales and office workers, production and manufacturing workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Hannibal who work in office and administrative support (15.94%), sales jobs (12.17%), and computer science and math (6.09%).
Also of interest is that Hannibal has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
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!) Hannibal 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. Hannibal has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Hannibal than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Hannibal may be for you.
Hannibal 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 percentage of people in Hannibal with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 10.47% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Hannibal in 2022 was $29,198, 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 $116,792 for a family of four. However, Hannibal contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Hannibal home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Hannibal residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Hannibal include English, Irish, German, Polish, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Hannibal is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.
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 Hannibal, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Austrian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Austrian ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 7.8% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Polish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.8% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Hannibal are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 43.5% of the neighborhoods in America. With 43.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 91.2% 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, 35.7% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations, with 24.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (21.1%), and 18.6% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.9% of households. Some people also speak Polish (7.8%).
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 Hannibal, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (18.4%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (15.5%), and residents who report German roots (13.9%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (6.4%), along with some French ancestry residents (6.1%), 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 (31.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (88.2%) 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 (7.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.