South Fallsburg - Hurleyville is a very small town located in the state of New York. With a population of 3,690 people and just one neighborhood, South Fallsburg - Hurleyville is the 427th largest community in New York.
Unlike some towns, South Fallsburg - Hurleyville isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in South Fallsburg - Hurleyville are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, South Fallsburg - Hurleyville is a town of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in South Fallsburg - Hurleyville who work in food service (15.73%), sales jobs (10.40%), and management occupations (10.40%).
South Fallsburg - Hurleyville is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The percentage of people in South Fallsburg - Hurleyville who are college-educated is somewhat higher than the average US community of 21.84%: 26.60% of adults in South Fallsburg - Hurleyville have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in South Fallsburg - Hurleyville in 2022 was $23,191, which is low income relative to New York and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $92,764 for a family of four. However, South Fallsburg - Hurleyville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
South Fallsburg - Hurleyville is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call South Fallsburg - Hurleyville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of South Fallsburg - Hurleyville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. South Fallsburg - Hurleyville also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 24.01% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in South Fallsburg - Hurleyville include Irish, Polish, Italian, German, and African.
The most common language spoken in South Fallsburg - Hurleyville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
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 31.1% of the residential real estate vacant, the neighborhood claims the distinction of having a higher vacancy rate than 95.2% 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.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Austrian and Dutch ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Austrian ancestry and 4.3% have Dutch ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 12.2% 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 98.8% 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 South Fallsburg - Hurleyville are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 91.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 43.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 91.3% 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, 32.2% 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 29.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (19.2%), and 16.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
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 70.4% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish, Polish, Langs. of India and German/Yiddish.
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 South Fallsburg - Hurleyville, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (16.9%). There are also a number of people of Polish ancestry (10.0%), and residents who report Italian roots (7.6%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (6.9%), along with some Sub-Saharan African ancestry residents (5.0%), among others. In addition, 12.2% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (36.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (67.0%) 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 (21.2%) and 8.1% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work 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.