Irving is a very small town located in the state of New York. With a population of 2,128 people and just one neighborhood, Irving is the 574th largest community in New York.
Irving is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Irving is a town of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Irving who work in management occupations (10.56%), law enforcement and fire fighting (9.05%), and sales jobs (8.90%).
Of important note, Irving is also a town of artists. Irving has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Irving’s character.
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, Irving has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Irving a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Being a small town, Irving does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of adults in Irving who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 19.39% of the adults in Irving have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Irving in 2022 was $21,658, which is low income relative to New York and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $86,632 for a family of four. However, Irving contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Irving also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 30.72% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Irving is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Irving home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Irving residents report their race to be Native American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Irving include German, Jamaican, Irish, Italian, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Irving is English. Other important languages spoken here include Native American languages and Polish.
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 Irving, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
The neighborhood has a greater proportion of government workers living in it than 97.3% 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.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 95.2% of all neighborhoods in America, with 30.5% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Native American and Jamaican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 60.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Native American ancestry and 3.6% have Jamaican ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 12.9% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Native American languages at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.8% 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 Irving are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 89.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 38.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 88.3% 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, 31.7% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 30.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (28.5%), and 15.4% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.
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 78.0% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Native American languages and Polish.
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 Irving, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Native American (60.4%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (8.9%), and residents who report Mexican roots (5.4%), and some of the residents are also of Asian ancestry (5.0%), along with some Jamaican ancestry residents (3.6%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (55.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (80.3%) 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 (15.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.