Davenport Center is a tiny town located in the state of New York. With a population of 344 people and just one neighborhood, Davenport Center is the 938th largest community in New York. Davenport Center has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns.
Davenport Center is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Davenport Center is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and farmers, fishers, or foresters. There are especially a lot of people living in Davenport Center who work in farm management occupations (19.79%), sales jobs (17.11%), and maintenance occupations (16.58%).
In addition, many people in Davenport Center have jobs in agriculture, more so than in most other communities in America. As a result, you will see quite a number of farms around town.
Of important note, Davenport Center is also a town of artists. Davenport Center has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Davenport Center’s character.
Residents will find that the town is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Davenport Center is worth considering.
In Davenport Center, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 42.62 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
Davenport Center 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.
In terms of college education, Davenport Center is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 21.84% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 30.96% of adults in Davenport Center have a college degree.
The per capita income in Davenport Center in 2022 was $28,690, 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 $114,760 for a family of four. However, Davenport Center contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Davenport Center home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Davenport Center residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Davenport Center include Irish, English, Italian, Welsh, and German.
The most common language spoken in Davenport Center is English. Other important languages spoken here include Slavic languages and Italian.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Davenport Center, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 95.5% of all neighborhoods in America, with 31.1% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Welsh and Finnish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Welsh ancestry and 1.6% have Finnish 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 Davenport Center are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 42.2% of the neighborhoods in America. With 16.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 64.5% 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, 34.2% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 30.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (21.1%), and 10.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.7% of households. Some people also speak Polish (2.9%).
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 Davenport Center, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (21.2%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (19.4%), and residents who report German roots (15.2%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (14.5%), along with some Welsh ancestry residents (4.5%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (37.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (78.1%) 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 (5.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.