Garrattsville is a tiny town located in the state of New York. With a population of 120 people and just one neighborhood, Garrattsville is the 980th largest community in New York. Garrattsville has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Garrattsville is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 40.74% of the Garrattsville workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Garrattsville is a town of construction workers and builders, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Garrattsville who work in sales jobs (18.52%), teaching (18.52%), and office and administrative support (7.41%).
The overall crime rate in Garrattsville is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.
Garrattsville 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, Garrattsville 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: 29.58% of adults in Garrattsville have a college degree.
The per capita income in Garrattsville in 2022 was $25,063, 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 $100,252 for a family of four.
The people who call Garrattsville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Garrattsville residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Garrattsville include English, Irish, Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, and West Indian.
The most common language spoken in Garrattsville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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.
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 27 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 93.3% of America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swiss and Danish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Swiss ancestry and 2.0% have Danish ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 6.3% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.3% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Garrattsville are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 42.3% of the neighborhoods in America. With 22.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 72.3% 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, 31.6% 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 28.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.3%), and 13.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 91.6% of households. Some people also speak German/Yiddish (6.3%).
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 Garrattsville, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (16.8%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (14.0%), and residents who report Irish roots (11.8%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (7.1%), along with some French ancestry residents (3.7%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (33.2% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (72.0%) 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 (9.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.