Star Lake - Cranberry Lake is a very small town located in the state of New York. With a population of 2,071 people and just one neighborhood, Star Lake - Cranberry Lake is the second largest community in New York.
Unlike some towns, Star Lake - Cranberry Lake isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Star Lake - Cranberry Lake are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Star Lake - Cranberry Lake is a town of professionals, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Star Lake - Cranberry Lake who work in healthcare (12.73%), teaching (9.45%), and healthcare suport services (8.01%).
A relatively large number of people in Star Lake - Cranberry Lake telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 14.17% 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.
Another notable thing is that Star Lake - Cranberry Lake is an extremely popular vacation destination. A significant portion of the population is seasonal. During the vacation season, the town experiences a large influx of people who take up residence in second homes they own in the area. As the vacation season ends, the population drops again, leaving behind a substantially quieter and smaller town.
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, Star Lake - Cranberry Lake has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Star Lake - Cranberry Lake a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
The percentage of adults in Star Lake - Cranberry Lake who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 19.34% of the adults in Star Lake - Cranberry Lake have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Star Lake - Cranberry Lake in 2022 was $28,514, 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 $114,056 for a family of four. However, Star Lake - Cranberry Lake contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Star Lake - Cranberry Lake home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Star Lake - Cranberry Lake residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Star Lake - Cranberry Lake include English, Irish, French, German, and French Canadian.
The most common language spoken in Star Lake - Cranberry Lake is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Greek.
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.
Despite all of the residential real estate here in the neighborhood, NeighborhoodScout has discovered that much of it is vacant. In resort or second-home vacation areas, this naturally occurs because homes and apartments are seasonally occupied, and empty for a portion of the year. In non-vacation or resort areas, however, this can be an indicator of property abandonment or a weak real estate market. The vacancy rate here is 56.5%, which is higher than 99.1% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
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 5 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 98.2% of America.
If you're planning where to retire, the neighborhood in Star Lake - Cranberry Lake is a great option to consider. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive retirement dream area analysis, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety ratings compared to other neighborhoods in NY, offers a wide range of housing options, and has already attracted an enviable mix of college educated seniors. This neighborhood ranks as better for retirement living than 85.0% of the neighborhoods in New York. If you are considering retiring to New York, this is a good neighborhood to look at.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more French Canadian and Lithuanian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.8% of this neighborhood's residents have French Canadian ancestry and 1.8% have Lithuanian 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 Star Lake - Cranberry Lake are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 82.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 33.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 84.5% 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, 37.7% 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 27.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.6%), and 14.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.6% of households. Some people also speak Polish (2.4%).
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 Star Lake - Cranberry Lake, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (14.2%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (10.2%), and residents who report French roots (9.6%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (6.8%), along with some French Canadian ancestry residents (5.8%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (47.3% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (66.3%) 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 (10.4%) and 8.8% 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.