Prattsburgh is a tiny town located in the state of New York. With a population of 589 people and just one neighborhood, Prattsburgh is the 852nd largest community in New York. Prattsburgh has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns.
When you are in Prattsburgh, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 36.71% of Prattsburgh’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Prattsburgh is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Prattsburgh who work in healthcare suport services (12.97%), management occupations (11.71%), and sales jobs (11.08%).
The overall crime rate in Prattsburgh is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.
Being a small town, Prattsburgh does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The citizens of Prattsburgh are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 14.88% of adults in Prattsburgh have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Prattsburgh in 2022 was $26,652, 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 $106,608 for a family of four. However, Prattsburgh contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Prattsburgh home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Prattsburgh residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Prattsburgh include German, English, Dutch, Irish, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Prattsburgh is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
Vacant homes and apartments are a significant characteristic of this neighborhood. In fact, with 38.9% of the residential real estate vacant, the neighborhood claims the distinction of having a higher vacancy rate than 97.5% of the neighborhoods in America. This can either be because much of the property is seasonally occupied, like in many vacation areas, or that much of the real estate is more permanently abandoned.
In addition, this neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 32 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 92.4% of America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swiss and Eastern European ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 12.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Swiss ancestry and 2.2% have Eastern European ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 18.2% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.8% 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 Prattsburgh are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 73.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 37.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 87.8% of U.S. neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 33.2% 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 30.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (17.9%), and 16.3% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
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 78.4% of households. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish, Polish, Italian and Spanish.
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Prattsburgh, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (15.6%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (13.9%), and residents who report Swiss roots (12.5%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (7.3%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (3.7%), among others.
Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (28.6% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (72.8%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also hop out the door and walk to work to get to work (6.8%) and 5.7% of residents also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors for their daily commute. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.