Mooers is a tiny town located in the state of New York. With a population of 451 people and just one neighborhood, Mooers is the 904th largest community in New York.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Mooers is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 44.58% of the Mooers workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Mooers is a town of production and manufacturing workers, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Mooers who work in sales jobs (15.83%), food service (12.50%), and law enforcement and fire fighting (8.75%).
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, Mooers has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Mooers 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, Mooers doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
In terms of college education, Mooers is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 20.58% of adults 25 and older in Mooers have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Mooers in 2022 was $20,294, which is low income relative to New York and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $81,176 for a family of four. However, Mooers contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Mooers home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Mooers residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Mooers include German, French, Welsh, Irish, and French Canadian.
The most common language spoken in Mooers is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and African languages.
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 Mooers, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Of particular note, 6.1% of the people in the neighborhood currently reside in a correction facility, held due to punishment for a crime.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 37 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 91.5% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more French Canadian and French ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 11.3% of this neighborhood's residents have French Canadian ancestry and 17.6% have French 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 Mooers are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 67.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 16.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 63.6% 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, 38.7% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 23.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.1%), and 16.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.7% of households. Some people also speak Italian (3.3%).
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 Mooers, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as French (17.6%). There are also a number of people of French Canadian ancestry (11.3%), and residents who report Irish roots (6.6%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (4.9%), along with some German ancestry residents (4.1%), 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 (49.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (79.2%) 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 (15.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.