Strykersville is a tiny town located in the state of New York. With a population of 682 people and just one neighborhood, Strykersville is the 828th largest community in New York. Strykersville 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 Strykersville, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 43.20% of Strykersville’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Strykersville is a town of sales and office workers, farmers, fishers, or foresters, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Strykersville who work in farm management occupations (20.39%), sales jobs (17.96%), and management occupations (8.01%).
You will also find that a lot of people in Strykersville work in agricultural jobs - much more than in the average community in America. This will be quite apparent if you drive around town, as much of the landscape is dedicated to farms.
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, Strykersville has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Strykersville a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
The population of Strykersville overall has a level of education that is slightly above the US average for all US cities and towns of 21.84%. Of adults 25 and older in Strykersville, 23.16% have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Strykersville in 2022 was $31,656, which is lower middle income relative to New York, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $126,624 for a family of four. However, Strykersville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Strykersville is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Strykersville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Strykersville residents report their race to be White. Strykersville also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 21.77% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Strykersville include German, Irish, Polish, Italian, and French.
The most common language spoken in Strykersville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.
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.
It used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 6.0% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 97.8% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 44 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 90.3% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swiss and Polish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Swiss ancestry and 11.1% have Polish ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 13.7% 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 99.2% of the neighborhoods in America.
Some neighborhoods have more internal cohesiveness than others. While other neighborhoods feel like a collection of strangers who just happen to live near each other. Sometimes this comes down to not only the personalities of the people in a place, but how long people have been together in that neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research has revealed some interesting things about the rootedness of people in the neighborhood. More residents of the neighborhood live here today that also were living in this same neighborhood five years ago than is found in 95.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. This neighborhood is really made up of people who know each other, don't move often, and have lived here in this very neighborhood for quite a while.
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 Strykersville are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 58.3% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 5.1% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 63.8% of America'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, 30.0% 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 27.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (25.1%), and 11.6% 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 96.4% of households. Other important languages spoken here include 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 Strykersville, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (32.0%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (14.9%), and residents who report Polish roots (11.1%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (9.9%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (5.3%), 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 (27.8% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (77.9%) 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 (11.5%) and 7.9% 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.