Fort Drum is a medium-sized town located in the state of New York. With a population of 15,896 people and three associated neighborhoods, Fort Drum is the largest community in New York. Much of the housing stock in Fort Drum was built relatively recently. The construction of new real estate can often be taken as an indication that the local Fort Drum economy is robust, and that jobs or other amenities are attracting an influx of new residents. This seems to be the case in Fort Drum, where the median household income is $63,194.00.

Fort Drum is a military town: the armed forces employs 38.70% of the workforce, making the military a major focus of life in the city. In the civilian sector, Retail and Healthcare are important in the local economy and are the town’s largest civilian employers, employing 15.55% and 12.87% of the civilian workforce respectively.

Of important note, Fort Drum is also a town of artists. Fort Drum has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Fort Drum’s character.

A relatively large number of people in Fort Drum telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 14.06% 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.

Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Fort Drum spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 13.17 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the town are less than they would otherwise be.

Being a small town, Fort Drum does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

The citizens of Fort Drum are very well educated compared to the average community in the nation: 37.24% of adults in Fort Drum have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Fort Drum in 2022 was $26,230, 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 $104,920 for a family of four. However, Fort Drum contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Fort Drum is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Fort Drum home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Fort Drum residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Fort Drum also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 19.39% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Fort Drum include German, Irish, English, Italian, and French.

The most common language spoken in Fort Drum is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and French.