Oxford is a very small village located in the state of New York. With a population of 1,342 people and just one neighborhood, Oxford is the 700th largest community in New York. Much of the housing stock in Oxford was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic villages in the country.
Oxford is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Oxford is a village of professionals, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Oxford who work in office and administrative support (13.33%), teaching (10.00%), and sales jobs (7.14%).
Of important note, Oxford is also a village of artists. Oxford has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Oxford’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!) Oxford 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. Oxford has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Oxford than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Oxford may be for you.
Being a small village, Oxford does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The citizens of Oxford are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 15.67% of adults in Oxford have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Oxford in 2022 was $28,705, 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 $114,820 for a family of four. However, Oxford contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Oxford home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Oxford residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Oxford include German, Irish, English, Polish, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Oxford is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.
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.
Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 92.6% of the neighborhoods in America.
Significantly, 8.4% 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 97.3% 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 Oxford are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 69.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 29.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 80.3% 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, 37.1% 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 26.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (17.0%), and 16.4% 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 98.7% of households. Some people also speak Polish (8.4%).
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 Oxford, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (18.4%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (17.5%), and residents who report German roots (17.1%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (7.4%), along with some French ancestry residents (5.1%), 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 (53.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (63.6%) 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 (21.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.