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Richburg, NY

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Overview


Richburg is a tiny village located in the state of New York. With a population of 410 people and just one neighborhood, Richburg is the 916th largest community in New York. Richburg has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic villages in the country.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some villages where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Richburg is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Richburg is a village of sales and office workers, professionals, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Richburg who work in sales jobs (23.46%), office and administrative support (9.23%), and teaching (8.85%).

Also of interest is that Richburg has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

A relatively large number of people in Richburg telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 16.80% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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.

Setting & Lifestyle

The overall crime rate in Richburg 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.

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!) Richburg 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. Richburg has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Richburg than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Richburg may be for you.

Richburg is a small village, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

The population of Richburg has a very low overall level of education: only 9.81% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.

The per capita income in Richburg in 2022 was $23,803, which is low income relative to New York and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $95,212 for a family of four. However, Richburg contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Richburg home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Richburg residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Richburg include German, English, Irish, Italian, and Pennsylvania German.

The most common language spoken in Richburg is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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The Neighbors

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 Richburg are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 79.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 32.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 83.8% 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, 37.5% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 24.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (23.8%), and 14.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.4% of households. Some people also speak Polish (5.8%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Richburg, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (19.2%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (15.5%), and residents who report Irish roots (12.2%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (7.6%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (2.4%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (38.8% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

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 (10.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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