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Hagaman, NY

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Overview


Hagaman is a very small village located in the state of New York. With a population of 1,121 people and just one neighborhood, Hagaman is the 737th largest community in New York.

Occupations and Workforce

Hagaman is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Hagaman is a village of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Hagaman who work in office and administrative support (12.48%), business and financial occupations (10.72%), and sales jobs (8.61%).

A relatively large number of people in Hagaman telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 7.25% 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.

Setting & Lifestyle

It is a fairly quiet village because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Hagaman has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Hagaman has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Hagaman than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Hagaman may be for you.

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

Demographics

The percentage of people in Hagaman who are college-educated is somewhat higher than the average US community of 21.84%: 26.32% of adults in Hagaman have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Hagaman in 2022 was $36,778, 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 $147,112 for a family of four. However, Hagaman contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Hagaman is a somewhat ethnically-diverse village. The people who call Hagaman home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Hagaman residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Hagaman also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 10.55% of the village’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Hagaman include Italian, Polish, German, Irish, and English.

The most common language spoken in Hagaman is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Slavic languages.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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 Hagaman, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

People

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Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Polish and Lithuanian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 21.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Polish ancestry and 2.2% have Lithuanian ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 0.6% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Persian at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.3% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 Hagaman are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 47.1% of the neighborhoods in America. With 14.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 58.3% 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, 42.0% 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 26.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (18.7%), and 13.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 93.3% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (3.3%).

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 Hagaman, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Polish (21.0%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (15.4%), and residents who report Italian roots (14.9%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (12.0%), along with some English ancestry residents (8.7%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (36.0% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (75.2%) 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 (12.9%) . 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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