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Dickinson Center, NY

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Overview


Dickinson Center is a very small town located in the state of New York. With a population of 1,537 people and just one neighborhood, Dickinson Center is the 662nd largest community in New York.

Occupations and Workforce

Dickinson Center is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Dickinson Center is a town of professionals, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Dickinson Center who work in healthcare (10.89%), office and administrative support (10.33%), and community and social services (8.20%).

Setting & Lifestyle

One downside of living in Dickinson Center, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 32.06 minutes every day commuting to work.

As is often the case in a small town, Dickinson Center doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Dickinson Center with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 15.79% of adults in Dickinson Center have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Dickinson Center in 2022 was $36,603, which is middle income relative to New York, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $146,412 for a family of four. However, Dickinson Center contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Dickinson Center home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Dickinson Center residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Dickinson Center include Irish, French, English, German, and Italian.

The most common language spoken in Dickinson Center is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and West Germanic languages.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

Real Estate

Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 95.0% of the neighborhoods in America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Welsh and French ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Welsh ancestry and 10.3% have French ancestry.

The Neighbors

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 Dickinson Center are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 48.7% of the neighborhoods in America. With 13.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 57.0% 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, 36.4% 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 25.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.2%), and 16.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.8% of households. Some people also speak Italian (2.1%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Dickinson Center, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (18.2%). There are also a number of people of French ancestry (10.3%), and residents who report English roots (9.1%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (7.6%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (6.1%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (35.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (79.5%) 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 (14.3%) . 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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