Livingston Manor is a very small town located in the state of New York. With a population of 1,053 people and just one neighborhood, Livingston Manor is the 750th largest community in New York. Much of the housing stock in Livingston Manor was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
Livingston Manor is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Livingston Manor is a town of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Livingston Manor who work in law enforcement and fire fighting (14.14%), sales jobs (12.85%), and healthcare (12.34%).
Also of interest is that Livingston Manor has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 7.46% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.
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, Livingston Manor has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Livingston Manor a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
As is often the case in a small town, Livingston Manor doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The percentage of adults in Livingston Manor who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 18.95% of the adults in Livingston Manor have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Livingston Manor in 2022 was $28,733, 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 $114,932 for a family of four. However, Livingston Manor contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Livingston Manor is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Livingston Manor home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Livingston Manor residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Livingston Manor include German, Irish, Brazilian, Ukrainian, and Polish.
In addition, Livingston Manor has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (20.05%).
The most common language spoken in Livingston Manor is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian 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.
In a nation where 1 out of every 4 children lives in poverty, the neighborhood stands out as being ranked among the lowest 0.0% of neighborhoods affected by this global issue.
In addition, divorcees may find friendship and understanding in this neighborhood, as 21.1% of its residents are divorced. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis found that this divorce rate is higher than in 96.8% of the neighborhoods in America.
Despite all of the residential real estate here in the neighborhood, NeighborhoodScout has discovered that much of it is vacant. In resort or second-home vacation areas, this naturally occurs because homes and apartments are seasonally occupied, and empty for a portion of the year. In non-vacation or resort areas, however, this can be an indicator of property abandonment or a weak real estate market. The vacancy rate here is 31.7%, which is higher than 95.4% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Austrian and Brazilian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 7.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Austrian ancestry and 2.8% have Brazilian ancestry.
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 Livingston Manor are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 76.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 0.0% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 100.0% of America'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, 36.4% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 33.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (17.9%), and 12.0% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 88.7% of households.
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 Livingston Manor, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (31.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (20.2%), and residents who report English roots (15.0%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (8.4%), along with some Austrian ancestry residents (7.6%), 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 (30.8% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (82.6%) 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 (7.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.